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Colapinto again to older-spec Williams suspension after Vegas crash
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Colapinto again to older-spec Williams suspension after Vegas crash

Motorsports November 29, 2024
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Franco Colapinto will compete within the closing two grands prix of the 2024 Method 1 season with Williams’s outdated entrance suspension design, because of his Las Vegas qualifying crash.

Colapinto’s heavy shunt in Q2 final weekend means Williams has been pressured to switch the broken entrance suspension elements of his automobile with the model it was working earlier than its newest design was unleashed at September’s Singapore Grand Prix.

That entrance suspension replace was initially deliberate to be added to the FW46 throughout Williams’ main improve bundle launched on the Zandvoort spherical simply after the summer season break, however the workforce’s many crashes in the course of the early a part of the 2024 marketing campaign meant it needed to delay this introduction by three races.

“We’re altering the suspension, the entrance suspension is totally different,” Colapinto stated in Qatar forward of this weekend’s penultimate race of the season.

“So, that is the outdated spec and another issues. However that is what it’s, and we now have to take care of that and attempt to do our greatest to maximise the automobile.”

Colapinto defined “there aren’t sufficient” of the newer elements to switch these misplaced in Vegas, including: “It is a part of the crashes we have been having the previous couple of races.”

Williams insiders insist that the change in specification will solely carry a modest loss on total efficiency for the FW46.

Marshals load the broken automobile of Franco Colapinto, Williams FW4

Photograph by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Photos

Talking on the Losail observe on Thursday, Colapinto additionally stated that when working in Vegas qualifying, “Q2 [there] put me in a state of affairs of getting to push the bounds a bit bit greater than [in] different periods.

“And for my feeling, that is what put me in that state of affairs of taking a bit extra danger. And that was a bit an excessive amount of danger on the finish of the day.

“I used to be feeling actually good in qualifying, placing the laps in and I used to be doing superb laps. Q1 was very sturdy, then Q2 was a really sturdy first lap as properly. And I used to be doing an enormous step on the final run with the brand new tyres on the finish.

“However on the finish this stuff occur, it is a part of racing. Let’s examine the way it goes right here.”

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