Williams Racing F1 Canadian GP - Good race 19.06.2022: FORMULA 1 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal 17-19 June 2022 Sunday, June 19th 2022 Track: Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Canada Lap Length: 4.361 km Pos Driver Team Time/Gap (Fastest Lap) Grid 13. A. Albon Williams Racing +

FORMULA 1 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
17-19 June 2022
Sunday, June 19th 2022


 
Track: Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Canada    Lap Length:  4.361 km
Pos    Driver    Team    Time/Gap (Fastest Lap)    Grid
13.    A. Albon    Williams Racing    +44.893 (1:17.951)    12
16.    N. Latifi    Williams Racing    +59.978 (1:18.540)    19



Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: It was always going to be difficult to hang on to what we earnt yesterday, and we didn’t have the pace to hold off the quicker cars that started behind us.



However, we did have a good race with Gasly and Norris and we were close to Vettel and Ricciardo at the end too. Like last weekend, the timing of the virtual safety car was not good for Alex, but he kept his head down and made the best of it.



Similar to Alex, Nicholas struggled to find pace during the race despite his best efforts. As a team it was great to be a part of Nicholas’ first home race and experience the support from the fans. We needed a little more basic car pace to be able to really race for points and everyone in Grove is working very hard to deliver that to the track as soon as possible.



Alex Albon: Going into this weekend, we knew this track was going to be difficult and despite our good qualifying, in the first 3-4 laps I could tell it was going to be a struggle. I think P13 was all we could have achieved today so at face value; I am quite happy with it. Going into the next stint of races, hopefully we can make these upgrades and continue to improve on this.




Nicholas Latifi: The overall experience of the weekend has been pretty special. It’s great to finally have my first home race and the support I felt from my family, friends and all the fans in the grandstands was amazing. In terms of on track, we were lacking a lot of pace and we need to try to understand why in both high and low fuel.


We have two weeks now to try and do a bit of analysis before heading to Silverstone. Regardless of the result, this weekend has been one to remember.
 



Rebecca Banks, photos Williams