Williams pushing to bring 'more upgrades'
Williams is now planning to take another step forward.
At recent races, the struggling British team finally put some substantial upgrades on its car, which has been easily the slowest overall in 2019.
George Russell, clearly the most competitive Williams driver, qualified and finished 16th in Hungary -- an obvious step forward.
It follows Robert Kubica's point at Hockenheim, the first and only for the team this year, after the disqualification of the Alfa Romeos.
"It has been a brutal season for us, so I suppose we should gladly accept any kind of reward," said team boss Claire Williams. "But Alfa Romeo have submitted their appeal so I think we're going to have to wait and see."
However, Auto Motor und Sport claims that Williams actually made a 9 per cent step forward in terms of downforce in Hungary, amounting to a little more than eight tenths. "That was a first step. Now we need to do more," Russell said.
Team boss Claire Williams says the team will oblige. "More upgrades have just been approved by the development department," she said. "Now it depends on how quickly we can do the production."
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It looks like Patrick Head's input is starting to have some effect. I doubt he's involved on the actual update design, but I suspect that with his years of experience of the team and of F1 generally, his input is on the organisational side, ensuring that updates not only happen, but happen to a planned timescale - the sort of organisational skill that was obviously distinctly lacking over last winter. But their next task is to get a full-time guy in to do what Head appears to be doing now on a part-time basis. Hopefully Head will have had a robust discussion with Clare (and Frank) about who and what the team actually need to permanently lift them off the bottom of the grid.
Would nothing better than to see Williams back in the fold. Go Claire, Patrick, George, Robert and all the rest of the team.