Within the round-up: Alexander Albon says the primary a part of the 2024 season has been powerful for Williams as they haven’t introduced any important upgrades for his or her automobile.
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2024 season “disappointing” to this point – Albon
Albon described his season as far as “disappointing”, saying Williams’ lack of upgrades explains why they’re solely ninth within the championship.
“We’ve been on the again foot from the very starting,” he instructed the official F1 channel. “We had been late with our automobile and we’ve been paying the value the entire season to this point. That’s about it.”
He’s hopeful the crew will start to make progress with its automobile when the season resumes.
“We haven’t had many, if any, upgrades this season to this point, so we’ve been on the again foot. Hopefully we’re pushing exhausting on the manufacturing unit. Everybody’s working actually exhausting. After all, there’s a little bit of a break proper now, however time will inform.
“If we are able to get our first correct improve on the automobile initially once we come again I believe we are able to combat for factors a bit extra often.”
Alonso wants break after “six consecutive weekends”
Fernando Alonso was relieved to enter the summer time break following a busy finish to the primary a part of the season.
“The final six weeks had been intense,” mentioned the Aston Martin driver. “We’ve 5 races, we had the Goodwood Competition within the center as nicely, so six consecutive weekends. Undoubtedly, we’d like a break, particularly the mechanics, everybody travelling, again to again races.
“It’s good to have a break now. It’s going to be a demanding second a part of the yr. Hopefully we are able to take some classes from these final couple of races and are available again stronger.”
Vandoorne and Ocon take a look at at Spa
Stoffel Vandoorne and Esteban Ocon started two days of testing for Pirelli at Spa-Francorchamps.
Aston Martin’s reserve driver had his first outing of their AMR24 and logged 92 laps, setting a greatest time of 1’45.561. Ocon did 97 laps and obtained his greatest time all the way down to 1’44.445. Vandoorne will proceed to drive tomorrow whereas Ocon will hand over to Jack Doohan, who drove Alpine’s 2022 automobile in a separate take a look at on the similar observe.
Softest tyres for threesome of races
Pirelli will carry its softest vary of tyres for the Italian, Azerbaijan and Singapore grands prix. This is identical allocation it dropped at the occasions final yr, although Baku’s spherical of the world championship will happen 5 months later than in 2023.
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