Williams will not “apportion any blame” for the delays which led to the Formula 1 team missing the first two and a half𝓰 days of pre-season testing. 

The Grove-based outfit was absent from the opening𒐪 two days of the first pre-season test in Barcelona after hitting delays with its 2019 challenger, the FW42. 

Williams’ latest F1 car finally arrived at the Spanish Grand Prix venue during the early hours of Wednesday morning, before the team 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:turned its first laps shortly after the lunch breaღk with rookie George Russell behind the wheel. 

The issues have fuelle⭕d paddock speculation about the future of Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe, after the team produced the slowest car on the 2018 grid and endured one of its worst-ever F1 seaso🅘ns. 

Asked about reports in the media regarding Lowe’s future, deputy team principal Claire Williams told Sky Sports: “I haven’t paid𓃲 much attention to it [the media reports] to be honest.&nb💟sp;

“There’s alwaysᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ a lot of speculation in these circumstances isn’t there but we don’t apportion any blame at Williams, that’s not the aim of the game or what we need to be focusing our energy on. 

“It’s about us all clubbing together and making sure that we understand why we♋ didn’t manage to get deliver the car then do that after-action review and learn from the mistakes.”

Williams said the team’s return to action was a “blessed relief” following what she described as a “horrible” and “diffi😼cult birth” for the FW42, citing a combination of issues as being the cause to the delays. 

“When you fail in t⭕his sense it’s normally an amalgamation ꦚof things that conspire against you unfortunately,” Williams explained. 

“We need to do our analysis and the most important thing is that we’ve got the car here and we can now spend a bit ꦦof time as to what went wrong. 

“Clearly we know the the main culprit𓆏s - not the main culprits - but why we are delayed… But we don’t wan𝔍t to discuss that. 

“We’re not going to be airing our dirty launജdry in public, it’s not appropriat💛e. We’ve got to go through our full analysis back at the factory and then make sure that this never happens again.”