Turkish GP: Williams race report
Poor starts contributed to a mid-field race for the AT&T Williams team at Turkey's Istanbul Park circuit today. A mechanical issue dropped Rubens Barrichello from 15th on the grid down to 20th, from where he pushed hard throughout the race to ...
Poor starts contributed to a mid-field race for the AT&T Williams team at Turkey's Istanbul Park circuit today. A mechanical issue dropped Rubens Barrichello from 15th on the grid down to 20th, from where he pushed hard throughout the race to recover to 14th. Nico Hulkenberg picked up a front puncture in the opening lap, the consequent stop bringing him out to fight from 23rd position. In the remaining laps, Nico worked his way up to P17 to conclude the race from where he started.
Rubens Barrichello:
I had a problem with the clutch at the start which is a shame because it's
been fine all weekend so we will
have to investigate that. We pitted earlier than we had originally planned
because our pace was better than
the cars in front. Our stop was quite slow because we had a problem with the
front wheel. Later on, I then
had an issue with the throttle. Our overall race pace wasn't too bad but we
need to resolve these issues
that we are having.
Nico Hulkenberg:
It hasn't been a good weekend for us and our race pace wasn't good enough
today. I also had an incident
on the first lap which meant I had to pit early. We have to keep working
hard to find more performance.
Sam Michael, Technical Director:
We finished roughly where we qualified today. Rubens had a problem with
anti-stall off the start, it
wasn't a driver issue. Shortly after his pitstop, he then had a throttle
control problem which dropped
him back down the order again. The problem reduced so he was able to
continue the race, but we'll
be stripping the car down to identify what caused it. Nico came together
with another car on the
opening lap which damaged his front wheel. That forced him into a premature
pitstop, so the rest of
his race was consumed with tyre management. For the forthcoming events, our
objective will be
achieving better qualifying and race performance.
-source: williams
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