Williams’ Dave Robson: Post-season testing “sets us up nicely for the break before we hit the track again early next year”

Williams Racing Head of Car Efficiency Dave Robson mirrored on a profitable post-season take a look at for the workforce, the place Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant accomplished programmes that aimed to collect information on Pirelli’s 2023 tyres. 

“We’ve had a really productive day to finish the 2022 season. Each automobiles ran reliably all through, which allowed Alex and Logan to run their supposed programmes. Alex ran by means of a sequence of tyre exams, exploring the 2023 tyres at numerous observe temperatures and gasoline hundreds.” 

Robson stated that Sargeant was in a position to get much more operating in in the course of the full day take a look at versus the free follow classes he partook in in the course of the season, giving him a stable foundation to work off of going into his first season with the workforce.

“Logan acquired his first expertise of a correct day of F1 testing in addition to some helpful publicity to the 2023 tyres. We had been in a position to do much more work with him than is feasible throughout an FP1 session and all the pieces he did will set him up properly for the essential pre-season testing that we’ll do subsequent February.”

With each drivers placing in nice laps on Pirelli’s softer compounds, Robson was proud of the workforce’s outcomes relative to the remainder of the grid, with Albon ending the take a look at as sixth quickest and Sargeant slotting in simply behind in seventh. 

“The timesheets don’t imply very a lot in the present day as each driver is finishing their very own programme. Nonetheless, it was good to see each drivers close to the highest having accomplished some excellent laps on the softer compounds. Logan drove exceptionally properly and absolutely deserved to be so near Alex.”

Robson stated that the workforce’s efforts round Yas Marina Circuit places them in a great place with regards to growth forward of the 2023 season, having collected vital knowledge by means of the well-constructed programme. 

“We accomplished 200 laps of operating in the present day throughout the 2 automobiles and nearly each one among these was completed in line with the plan and with a transparent function. The engineering workforce put collectively a really properly deliberate and executed day of testing, which units us up properly for the break earlier than we hit the observe once more early subsequent 12 months.”