Key Highlights: Williams drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz praised the team’s cooling vest as the best on the grid following a sweltering, high-humidity Singapore Grand Prix. A Heat Hazard declaration required drivers to either utilize a cooling system or carry equivalent ballast in their cockpits. Grid opinion remains sharply divided, with Max Verstappen, Pierre ...
Key Highlights Williams Racing is showcasing its Doctor Doom-themed Marvel show car in its Austin Fan Zone ahead of the United States Grand Prix. Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz will not race the custom design at the Circuit of the Americas; the livery will serve strictly as a non-racing exhibition vehicle. The downtown pop-up at ...
Key Highlights: Williams Racing has launched High Court proceedings against Peter Thorpe, former director of Autotech Performance Ltd, over a missing 2001 Williams FW23 Formula 1 chassis. The historic car was loaned for promotional display in 2015, but vanished when the Telford-based garage entered liquidation in the summer of 2021. The Grove-based outfit is seeking ...
Key Highlights: The Sepang International Circuit makes a one-off return to Formula 1 in 2026 as a proxy host for the Bahrain Grand Prix, confronting teams with extreme heat, abrasive asphalt, and weather volatility. Drivers face severe battery management constraints across Sepang’s long straights, alongside major concerns over severe tyre degradation and rear surface overheating. ...
Key Highlights: Williams reached Q3 for the first time in 2026 and scored its first points since Monaco at the Baku weekend. Carlos Sainz finished 10th after a grid penalty, while Alex Albon retired following a crash that triggered a safety car. The updated FW48 delivered the expected step forward, but Williams expects to lose ...
Key Highlights Williams has announced that K-pop artist TZUYU will record the official theme song for its partnership with the anime property DAN DA DAN. TZUYU will join Atlassian Williams F1 Team in Singapore, where fans can experience partnership activations at the Williams F1 Team Fan Zone. The announcement follows Williams’ mixed Azerbaijan Grand Prix, ...
Key Highlights Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz say a small group of Formula 1 drivers plans to remain in Asia for a boys’ trip between the Bahrain and Singapore Grands Prix. Williams introduced a major FW48 upgrade package at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Sainz qualifying ninth and Albon 13th. Sainz will start the Baku ...
Key Highlights Carlos Sainz received a five-place grid penalty for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after stewards ruled he failed to slow for yellow flags in Qualifying at the Baku City Circuit. The Williams driver drops from ninth to 14th on the grid, promoting Franco Colapinto, Ollie Bearman, Liam Lawson, Alex Albon, and Esteban Ocon. Sainz ...
Key Highlights Carlos Sainz advises 13-year-old Williams Academy driver Will Green to prioritize finding the limit over consistency in his transition from karting to single-seaters. The Spanish Formula 1 driver emphasizes that making mistakes while pushing hard is essential for learning and confidence-building at the junior level. Green, the 2026 Karting European Championship junior champion, ...
Key Highlights Williams Racing has accepted a developmental compromise for the remainder of the 2026 Formula 1 season, having redirected the majority of its engineering resources toward the 2027 campaign. Team principal James Vowles confirmed two new chassis and aerodynamic upgrades will debut at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to address car mass limits, but warned ...
Key Highlights Williams team principal James Vowles praised the inaugural Madrid Grand Prix organization, calling it potentially “one of the races to watch in the future” despite the circuit’s overtaking limitations. The Madring street circuit offers exceptional logistics: 30 minutes from the city center, 10 minutes by metro, and roughly ten times the paddock space ...
Former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes Williams is poised for a significant performance leap at the upcoming Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as the Grove-based team prepares to debut a major upgrade package. Difficult Spanish Grand Prix Highlights Williams Struggles The prediction comes on the back of another challenging weekend for Williams at the inaugural ...