{"id":168903,"date":"2025-09-29T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:45:07","slug":"williams-boss-reveals-singapore-gp-reality-despite-carlos-sainz-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168903\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams boss reveals Singapore GP reality despite Carlos Sainz prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Sainz will be entering these final races in the 2025 season with a pep in his step thanks to his podium in Baku, says Williams team principal James Vowles. But that\u2019s not guaranteed that Singapore will come with a comfortable result.<\/p>\n

Vowles admitted that the Marina Bay street circuit has presented quite a challenge for Williams<\/a> in the past, but that there are countless races soon after where the team can illustrate its podium-worthy pace.<\/p>\n

Carlos Sainz should be positive, but Singapore not the place for Williams to shine<\/p>\n

The Williams Racing team erupted with joy when the checkered flag flew at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, signaling as it did a genuinely impressive third-place finish for driver Carlos Sainz.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard hasn\u2019t had an easy time making the transition from Ferrari to Williams this year, with bad luck, errors, or poor execution often preventing him from accessing his true pace as a competitor. He\u2019s been adamant that a clean weekend is all Williams would need to flaunt its performance.<\/p>\n

Conditions were finally right in Baku. Sainz snagged provisional pole in qualifying as one of only three drivers to post a time in between two red-flag periods, and his pace could only be outshone by reigning world champion Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n

In the race itself, the Williams was able to hold onto a third place, giving the team its first podium finish in a full-length grand prix since Baku in 2017.<\/p>\n

More on the F1 2025 title fight:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0The Max Verstappen light at the end of Lando Norris\u2019 title tunnel<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Zak Brown predicts F1 teams to continue record-breaking rise<\/a><\/p>\n

But Williams team principal James Vowles believes that Baku pace won\u2019t necessarily translate to the sport\u2019s next outing at Singapore.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve shown, I think, all season long, is we can fight near enough for points everywhere \u2014 with some exceptions,\u201d Vowles admitted to C4 following the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Singapore is gonna be tricky. I\u2019ve been open and honest about that all the way through, but I think past that point, we\u2019ve got some really great races coming our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, he\u2019s of the opinion that Carlos Sainz should carry an immense amount of pride for with him for his Baku performance, which he should use to bolster himself moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s hugely important,\u201d Vowles told C4 of the podium finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere really is positive momentum. I believe in positive momentum.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for Carlos, this gives him a foundation and a stepping stone. You\u2019ll see a bounce in his step going forward to all the future races.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us as a team, it\u2019s a taste of success, where we earned today. This wasn\u2019t fortune or luck. You saw the car pace was actually good, in a circumstance \u2014 not as good as Mercedes, but it\u2019s not in a bad position, which is what earned us that podium.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what I want for this team. I want to not have fortune on that side, but earn every position we have from here onwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

As former motorsport strategy director for Mercedes, Vowles admitted that \u201cI\u2019ve had the fortune in my career to have quite a few podiums.\u201d However, the one in Baku \u201cwill really stay with me forever, because it\u2019s one that we earned as a team \u2014 a team that, just being transparent, we haven\u2019t been there the last few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been last or close to, and we\u2019ve fought back into this position now, and Carlos didn\u2019t put a foot wrong all race, just an exceptional drive from start to finish. It was brilliant to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later continued, \u201cI cannot wait for the moment on Monday where we take the trophy back to the factory and just hear the roof blow off the place, because that will be what means everything to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the reward for the 1,000 people that are dedicating their lives to me and to this team, and it\u2019s a \u2018thank you\u2019 to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Singapore, the Formula 1 circus will head to Circuit of the Americas and the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, followed by Interlagos and a triple-header that takes the field through Las Vegas, Qatar, and the Abu Dhabi season finale.<\/p>\n

Read next:\u00a0Claire Williams sends message to Carlos Sainz after Azerbaijan GP breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz will be entering these final races in the 2025 season with a pep in his step…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7572,1687,372,6537,348,7574,50,35477,101,56,54,55,2922],"class_list":["post-168903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-carlos-sainz","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-james-vowles","tag-news","tag-singapore-grand-prix","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}