The 2024 Components 1 São Paulo Grand Prix was a tough week for Williams.
With moist climate pushing qualifying for the Grand Prix to Sunday morning, all ten groups confronted a major problem in navigating a qualifying session — once more in moist situations — happening simply hours earlier than the Grand Prix. That problem was even harder for Williams as each Alexander Albon and Franco Colapinto crashed in the course of the moist qualifying session, placing the crew on the clock to get each automobiles prepared for the race.
Whereas the injury to Albon’s FW46 was an excessive amount of to beat, the crew was capable of get Colapinto’s automobile prepared for the race. Nevertheless, he crashed once more within the dismal situations, and the crew confronted a brand new problem in getting each automobiles rebuilt again on the manufacturing unit.
Now the crew has shared a behind-the-scenes take a look at how that course of performed out at their manufacturing unit in Grove. In an unbelievable video shared by the crew on Monday, you possibly can see how crew members waited till late within the night time to obtain the 2 automobiles and all of the broken elements in a number of totally different freight containers, and labored by means of the night time to rebuild the 2 automobiles:
The method included figuring out what elements have been salvageable, and what elements couldn’t be reused on both automobile. Ultimately, after hours and hours of labor, the crew had two automobiles rebuilt and prepared for this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The video is an incredible reminder about all of the onerous work that goes into operating an F1 crew, and the way lots of the unsung heroes put in hours of labor behind the scenes, away from the brilliant lights of race weekend.
