Canada Grand Prix: Preview – Williams

Sven Smeets, Sporting Director: After scoring our first factors in Monaco, we’re very a lot wanting ahead to returning to Canada.

It is a unbelievable occasion with an ideal ambiance within the metropolis that comes alive throughout F1 week. The monitor lends itself to actual racing and nice overtaking, however regularly altering climate circumstances can usually make it a really difficult weekend to handle. The monitor has additionally been utterly resurfaced since we final visited, so we’ll all be discovering the grip degree on Friday throughout FP1.

Tyre warming might be essential and race tempo might be extra rewarding than qualifying tempo, so we’ll be specializing in having a very good race automobile on Sunday. Final 12 months we had an ideal race and scored some good factors for the crew, so we’ll attempt to repeat that outcome this weekend.

Alex Albon: As we head to Canada this week, the crew and I’ve fond recollections from final 12 months’s P7, with our first huge points-scoring race of the season. I am to see how the FW46 performs round this circuit, which at all times brings possibilities for good racing and overtaking. The climate will play an element within the alternatives that might come up, so hopefully as a crew, we will maximise on this. Montreal is one in every of my favorite cities and I am wanting ahead to heading again.

Logan Sargeant: I am actually wanting ahead to the Canadian Grand Prix. The monitor in Montreal is without doubt one of the finest on the calendar with its mixture of quick straights and tight corners that creates a very good circulation for racing. This occasion is understood for its unpredictable climate circumstances, which may create some thrilling alternatives. Hopefully we will have a optimistic weekend as a crew.