Carlos Sainz has issued Williams with an urgent call to return to the drawing board and bring upgrades as quickly as possible following a damning “realisation” regarding its performance in medium- and high-speed corners.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Williams struggled throughout the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, with Sainz failing to score a point despite eight drivers encountering problems during the race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Spaniard had to settle for 12th at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, a venue widely regarded as a true litmus test of overall car performance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At no stage did the Grove-based outfit look capable of challenging for points, with its continued weight disadvantage proving a significant setback.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In addition, according to Sainz, the FW48’s general lack of downforce remains an area in need of improvement, with Williams requiring a considerable step forward in performance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In the 31-year-old’s view, Barcelona highlighted just how far behind Williams remains on medium-speed circuits, something the team must address.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think, realistically speaking, we expected it to be hard,” Sainz told select media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Looking back on it, I think it’s been a bit more of a shock how far off we are in medium and high-speed corners, partly due to weight, but even more importantly, due to the downforce we have on the car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So I think it’s been massive. I wouldn’t call it a shock, not even a wake-up call, because we knew it, but it has been a realisation that we are very far from where we should be, where we targeted to be, or where we want to be.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So I think it’s time to go back to the drawing board and start bringing more things to the car, because clearly, at a medium-speed track, we’re very far behind.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has issued Williams with an urgent call to return to the drawing board and bring upgrades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-741030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}