Miami GP: Encouraging qualifying for Williams Racing
By Williams Racing
May 5 2024
Coming off a Sprint that would see the Williams Racing drivers finish in 10th and 13th the team would go into qualifying far more hopeful of securing an improved result. At the end of the session Alex Albon would make it into Q2 and was able to finish 14th. It wasn't the easiest of sessions as he continued to struggle with tyre management. For Logan Sargeant he would finish 17th but was the smallest of fractions away from making it into Q2. Overall it was still a session that gave the team hope for Sunday's race given that the changes the team made to the cars prior to qualifying did help their performance.
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Williams Racing
Miami GP Sprint Qualifying |
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Logan Sargeant: "When
I look at yesterday, I knew we had the pace to get through to Q2 and I
wanted to deliver that today. We executed our run plan well but it’s not
easy when it’s extremely tight with one tenth separating several cars.
I’m honestly happy with the changes we made to the car between sessions
and how I drove. We’ll try to have another good race tomorrow taking any
opportunity that comes our way. We have the pace and straight-line speed
to keep a lot of people behind, so we need to give ourselves track
position to make the most of it." |
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Alex Albon:
"Today was more about tyres than anything else. Even just now in my
Qualifying laps, I’m having to do a lot of race management with the
tyres and it’s like the quicker you drive the slower you end. The hot
track temperatures seem to hurt us a little more when running lower
downforce for better straight-line speed, so by turn 11, the tyres are
gone. I locked up on the corner when the front tyres went off, and then
the rears will go off the next corner, so it’s just a bit tricky. Let’s
see what we can do from P14 tomorrow." |
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Sven Smeets, Sporting Director:
"We’re much happier with how today went as we have made progress
from yesterday. It’s a shame that Logan, in his home race, missed Q2 by
just thirty milliseconds; it would have been a massive result for him,
and it was incredibly close. With Alex, maybe Q3 was just a little bit
too far away but we saw how close it was and it was important to manage
the tyres throughout the lap, so it was a Qualifying all about tyres.
Tomorrow there will be opportunities available to us. We saw in the
Sprint Race Logan starting in 18th and finishing 10th in an incident
full race. Tyre management will be key to a good result. We’re looking
forward to tomorrow." |
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Track: Miami International Autodrome |
Miami Lap Length: 5.412 km |
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Pos |
Driver |
Team |
Time Gap |
Fastest lap |
Grid |
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10 |
L Sargeant |
Williams Racing |
34.355 |
1:32.192 |
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13 |
A Albon |
Williams Racing |
36.086
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1:32.223 |
PIT LANE |
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Pos |
Driver |
Team |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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14 |
A Albon |
Williams Racing |
1:28.343
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1:28.413 |
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17 |
L Sargeant |
Williams Racing |
1:28.487 |
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