Posts Tagged with: "williams"

  • Williams ready for Monaco despite fire

    Williams ready for Monaco despite fire

    News 22/05/2012 19:19

    Despite the fire that spoilt Williams’ celebrations of their first race win in eight years a week ago, the team confirm they are ready for Monaco. The fire, which started around two hours after the race ended, and is believed to have been caused by a KERS issue, destroyed many [...]

     
  • Maldonado believes Williams changes key to success

    Maldonado believes Williams changes key to success

    News 19/05/2012 19:23

    Pastor Maldonado believes that the changes to the team, such as the new technical director Mike Coughlan and chief operations engineer Mark Gillan, are the reasons for the team’s transformation. The 2011 Formula 1 season was Williams’ worst in history. So when Pastor Maldonado took pole position, and then won the [...]

     
  • Will Bottas race for Williams in 2013?

    Will Bottas race for Williams in 2013?

    News 14/05/2012 15:24

    It is not official yet, but considering how this season is unfolding the signs that the young Finn will have a permanent driver role with Williams F1 next year are pretty strong. During the 2012 season Bottas has 15 Friday practice runs into Bruno Senna’s car and he’s also managed [...]

     
  • Williams victory party cut short by fire (video)

    Williams victory party cut short by fire (video)

    News, Top Stories 13/05/2012 15:55

    Sadly the Williams F1 victory party was cut short by a fire in their garage, believed to have been caused by a KERS issue. One member of the Williams team was sent to hospital, with four Caterham members being treated for injuries as well as a Force India team member. [...]

     
  • Spanish Grand Prix 2012 Race – Results

    Spanish Grand Prix 2012 Race – Results

    News 13/05/2012 15:28

    Pastor Maldonado is the Williams F1 hero this afternoon in Barcelona. After he started from pole and lost the position to Fernando Alonso, thanks to a brilliant strategy by the the team he was able to get back in the front and the young Venezuelan driver was able to maintain [...]

     
  • Pastor Maldonado WINS the Spanish Grand Prix!

    Pastor Maldonado WINS the Spanish Grand Prix!

    News, Top Stories 13/05/2012 13:50

    An exciting Spanish Grand Prix with Venezuela’s Pastor Maldonado claiming his first F1 Grand Prix win. Maldonado began from pole and transformed it into a great race win, and a fantastic result for Williams F1 Team who score their 114rd win and first since 2004 This also means that every race this year [...]

     
  • Spain 2012 Qualifying – Williams F1: “Pastor’s qualifying performance was stunning today”

    Spain 2012 Qualifying – Williams F1: “Pastor’s qualifying performance was stunning today”

    News, Reaction 12/05/2012 18:42

    Pastor Maldonado claimed his first front row grid position today in qualifying for tomorrow’s Spanish GP. After topping the times in Q2, Pastor drove a great lap on soft tyres to post a time of 1:22.285 putting him second overall behind Hamilton’s McLaren and following the investigation made by the [...]

     
  • Spain 2012 Qualifying: Lewis Hamilton given penalty, loses pole position

    Spain 2012 Qualifying: Lewis Hamilton given penalty, loses pole position

    News, Top Stories 12/05/2012 17:54

    Lewis Hamilton, who qualified on pole position for the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix, will start at the back of the grid on Sunday. The stewards this afternoon have been deciding on whether to penalise Hamilton, who after qualifying at the top of the time sheets in Q3, failed to return [...]

     
  • An unexpected qualifying line-up

    An unexpected qualifying line-up

    Chit Chat, Top Stories 12/05/2012 16:54

    Pole Position for Lewis Hamilton who was absolutely flying around the Montmelo circuit and a surprise P2 for Pastor Maldonado while Alonso made happy the home crowd with well deserved P3. Within the Scuderia Ferrari, everyone had expected that the much talked about aero updates introduced in Barcelona would see [...]

     
  • Spanish Grand Prix 2012 Qualifying – Results

    Spanish Grand Prix 2012 Qualifying – Results

    Results, Top Stories 12/05/2012 13:35

    Yet another unpredictable qualifying session with Lewis Hamilton securing the pole and followed closely by two unlikely candidates: Pastor Maldonado for Williams and Fernando Alonso for Scuderia Ferrari.

     
  • Gearbox changes, new loopholes to be exploited

    Gearbox changes, new loopholes to be exploited

    News 28/04/2012 08:20

    Two teams deployed a quiet ‘trick’ in Bahrain in order to exploit a loophole in the long-life gearbox rules, a specialist publication claims. Williams’ Pastor Maldonado had to move five places back on the grid last Sunday because a fault in his gearbox was discovered after the Chinese grand prix. [...]

     
  • Bahrain 2012 Race – Williams: “A weekend to forget”

    Bahrain 2012 Race – Williams: “A weekend to forget”

    News, Reaction 23/04/2012 10:47

    After a near perfect weekend in China Williams hopes for a good results were shattered this weekend by a double retirement. Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna were unable to make it to the chequered flag in Bahrain after having a really though weekend where the Williams F1 Team struggled for [...]