Williams Racing F1 Monaco Grand Prix race – Help for future races

Monaco Grand-Prix
Circuit de Monaco
20-23 May 2021
Sunday May 23rd, 2021

•    George Russell finished 14th and Nicholas Latifi 15th in the Monaco Grand Prix

•    George started 15th and Nicholas 18th, both on the medium Pirelli tyre

•    Both drivers ran a one-stop race, switching to the hard compound with George pitting on lap 31 and Nicholas on lap 43
 

Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance: Today has been difficult and with no incidents, we weren’t able to make much progress. George lost a place at the start to Alonso, but Nicholas was able to overtake Tsunoda, who had started on the Hard tyre. From there we were locked in a private battle between our own cars and Tsunoda.

 We were able to manage the cars and tyres, and although we struggled a little in the opening stint, the pace was improved on the Hard tyre and we were able to hold off Tsunoda during the final few laps, with Nicholas doing a great job to stay ahead of a much quicker car.
 

We always expected this weekend to be tough but having not raced on the streets in Monaco for a couple of years, it was good to come back and learn a few more things about the FW43B on a very different style of circuit. Some of this will help us directly at future events in 2021 and the rest will be valuable when we return to Monte Carlo next year.
 

Our attention now turns to Azerbaijan and a very different street circuit race in Baku.
 

George Russell: It was a pretty straightforward race and we finished where we deserved to be with the pace of the car. The race was uneventful, with nothing too exciting going on, but that’s just Monaco sometimes. The performance wasn’t as good as we had hoped but that wouldn’t have changed the result.

Nevertheless, putting this car flat out around the streets of Monaco, lap after lap was really fun. Next up is Baku and we will keep on pushing.
 

Nicholas Latifi: It was a very tricky race, probably the trickiest race I have done so far in Formula One, but I think I managed it quite well. It is definitely a track that doesn’t suit our car, either on low or high fuel, with the low speed corners and the bumps.

It was very tough out there to manage, but I feel like I looked after the tyres as best I could. I did have some more pace than George at various points in the race, but ultimately, we wouldn’t have been in the position to score points. There was no Monaco chaos, but that’s just how it goes sometimes here.
 

Track: Circuit de Monaco, Monaco    Weather: Moderate and dry temperatures
Lap Length: 3.337 / 2.073 miles    Temperature: Air: 21-22 °C Track: 33-43 °C
Pos    Driver    Team    Time/Gap (Fastest Lap)    Grid    Tyre Changes

1.    M. Verstappen    Red Bull Racing Honda    1:38:56.820 (1:14.649)    2    1 (34)
2.    C. Sainz    Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow    +8.968
(1:14.621)    4    1 (32)
3.    L. Norris    McLaren F1 Team    +19.427 (1:14.670)    5    1 (30)

14.    G. Russell, FW43B-03    Williams Racing    +1 LAP (1:15.539)    15    1 (31)
15.    N. Latifi, FW43B-01    Williams Racing    +1 LAP (1:15.573)    18    1 (43)
 
 

– Sophie Ogg, photos Williams

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