Former System 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has argued that Williams could also be pressured to “sacrifice” its 2027 growth programme to repair the basic flaws of its present challenger.
After securing fifth within the 2025 constructors’ championship, Williams has endured a nightmare begin below the 2026 rules. The Grove outfit’s struggles continued in the course of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Each Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon had been eradicated in Q1 and began the race from Seventeenth and 18th on the grid, respectively.
The race itself resulted in a retirement for Sainz because of a suspected electrical challenge and a Seventeenth-place end for Albon.
Throughout an look on the F1 TV post-race broadcast, Montoya supplied a blunt evaluation of his former group’s present scenario.
Requested by presenter and former IndyCar Collection driver James Hinchcliffe if the British group may bounce again at its dwelling race at Silverstone, Montoya defined: “Except they begin bringing upgrades, no. All people’s bringing upgrades, and I really feel that sooner or later, they should go, ‘We will go all in and determine it out, improve this and even sacrifice subsequent yr, however we have to work out shut that hole.’
Alexander Albon, Williams
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“And I really feel unhealthy for them as a result of they’re making an attempt. They actually put all of the eggs for this yr, and it hasn’t actually labored. However they’ve the whole lot in place to have the ability to be a tremendous and prime group.
“So I do not assume they’re that removed from being actually profitable. In order a driver, should you’re driving for them, it is a kind of groups that you just go, ‘Man, if I go away, I’d miss this.'”
Williams presently sits eighth within the constructors’ championship with 11 factors, 10 factors behind Haas in seventh and 9 factors forward of Audi in ninth.
The British Grand Prix will happen at Silverstone from 3 to five July.
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