Alexander Albon said the 2023 Williams F1 car had a kind of personality that was very specific to love and hate.
At the start of the 2023 F1 season, it was already known that Williams’ car was going to be a bit of a challenge. Cars have a tendency to excel on straights, which is useful not only for qualifying but also when defending against cars at the same speed.
Of course, this car is only suitable for tracks with long straights and few corners. This he also proved in 2023, where on tracks with such characteristics the car performed well, but struggled in the corners, limiting results.
Albon wants Williams to eradicate this by 2024 and they are working on it in 2023. “We’ve spent a lot of time this year solving this problem, because the more we understand this problem, the more we uncover. Please.”
“What is clear to us is that our car has a very… big personality in a sense, it has a way of driving, and at the same time it has curves and corners that suit us. , it doesn’t suit us, the best performance of the car is very extreme in some places, for example in Las Vegas we had a great result of 5th and 6th in qualifying, our car was 5th and 6th on paper. It wasn’t, but maybe it was 9th and 10th, and we had too much left on Saturday to be in the car on Sunday.
“My tires overheated within three laps into Sunday. I see so many factors there that could cause that to happen. In general, on Sunday It’s stable, but I think Las Vegas may not actually be like other examples. If you compare Brazil and Monza, for example, these are exactly the problems we want to solve next year.
“Brazil has corners, maybe four of them. You lose 10 and a half seconds on each corner and you can’t get around it. You can’t stop the front block. Stop the understeer.” I went off the road. And at the same time, in Monza there are no real restrictions and it doesn’t seem to harm us, we have good straight-line stability, we don’t have to combine too much and we see a peak there. Our cars have good and bad characteristics.
“Our challenge for next year is to get rid of them as much as possible. “This is something that has been in the car for five or six years and we hope that we can finally make progress next year.” “But to be honest , the characteristics of the car haven’t changed that much from last year to this year, we just added more downforce,” Albon concluded.
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