May 2008
9th May - WILLIAMS F1 - Turkish GP Practice
AT&T Williams’ Kazuki Nakajima and
Nico Rosberg closed Friday’s free practice sessions
for the Turkish Grand Prix in 8th and 13th places respectively
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2nd May - WILLIAMS F1 - Turkish GP Preview
The 2008 FIA World Championship proceeds to
Istanbul next week for round five of the season and the
fourth Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday 11 May.
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April 2008
28th Apl - WILLIAMS HYBRID POWER LAUNCHED
Williams Hybrid Power Limited is developing
a flywheel for potential use as the energy storage element
of Williams’ kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS),
a technology that will be allowed by regulation in Formula
One next year
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27th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Spanish GP Race
It was good to score some points with Kazuki
for the team’s standing in the Constructors’
Championship, but it’s also slightly disappointing
as we should have scored more.
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26th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Spanish GP Qualifying
That was obviously not as good as what we
had expected considering our efforts in practice yesterday.
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25th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Spanish GP Practice
Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima enjoyed a
productive day of free practice at the Circuit de Catalunya
in Barcelona today ahead of Sunday’s Spanish Grand
Prix
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22nd Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Spanish GP Preview
Formula One’s European season opens
this weekend with the 37th Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit
de Catalunya, located to the north of Barcelona in Montmeló.
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17th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
Kazuki took over from Nico today for the last
day of the test and concentrated on set-up for the Barcelona
race.
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16th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
Today Nico worked with the standard 2008 race
tyre and carried out set-up preparations for the Spanish
Grand Prix here next week.
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15th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
Nico Rosberg took over the FW30 today and
concentrated on running the 2009 Bridgestone slick tyres
gathering valuable data ahead of next year
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14th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
Today we started a four day test in Barcelona
with Kazuki Nakajima driving the FW30
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8th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Bahrain GP Review
After minor reliability issues had compromised
track time and thereby the optimisation of set-up two weeks
before in Malaysia
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6th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Bahrain GP Race
The AT&T Williams team collected a point
for its efforts in the Bahrain Grand Prix today with Nico
Rosberg finishing on par with his eighth place grid position
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5th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Bahrain GP Qualifying
Nico will start tomorrow’s race from
the fourth row of the grid, with Kazuki starting in sixteenth
position, with much intrigue surrounding the relative pace,
fuel strategy and tyre plans across the field.
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4th Apl - WILLIAMS F1 - Bahrain GP Practice
The AT&T Williams team had a productive
three hours of practice time on track today, providing a
good start to preparations for Sunday’s Bahrain Grand
Prix.
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March 2008
31st Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Bahrain GP Preview
Formula One moves from the Far East to the
Middle East this week as Bahrain’s state-of-the-art
Sakhir circuit hosts the third round of the 2008 Formula
One World Championship
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23rd Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Malaysian GP Race
After a poor qualifying session on Saturday
in Sepang, the AT&T Williams team was not able to score
points in today’s Malaysian Grand Prix as various
events compromised the team’s ability
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22nd Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Malaysian GP Qualifying
The AT&T Williams team endured a tough
qualifying session today that will see the team start tomorrow’s
Malaysian Grand Prix from P16 and P22
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21st Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Malaysian GP Practice
The AT&T Williams team completed a full
programme of preparatory work in today’s two practice
sessions for this Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix
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20th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - AirAsia Unveils
WORLD’S 1st AT&T WILLIAMS FORMULA ONE A320 AIRCRAFT
AirAsia, the leading and largest low cost
carrier in Asia, today unveiled the world’s first
commercial A320 aircraft with a Formula One team livery.
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18th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Malaysian GP Preview
Malaysia welcomes Formula One this weekend
for round two of the 2008 World Championship, hot off the
heels of a thrilling start to the year in Melbourne last
weekend.
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18th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Australian GP Race
Review
The team had a difficult start to the weekend
when a newly introduced gearbox component failed in both
cars in the first practice session on Friday.
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16th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Australian GP Race
A podium for Nico Rosberg and a sixth place
finish for team-mate Kazuki Nakajima saw the AT&T Williams
team off to a double points start to their 2008 campaign.
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15th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Australian GP Qualifying
The AT&T Williams team showed a steady
start to their 2008 campaign, qualifying the two FW30s in
P7 and P14 respectively.
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14th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Australian GP Practice
The first day of the 2008 Formula One season
in Melbourne was not plain sailing for the AT&T Williams
team as various technical problems interrupted the process
of optimising the FW30
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11th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - Australian GP Preview
There is a great buzz among the teams before
the racing starts again because it allows us to see where
our performance lies relative to each other.
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11th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - CRANFIELD LAUNCHES
NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH WILLIAMS F1
A unique partnership has been announced between
the Centre for Customised Executive Development at Cranfield
School of Management and the Formula One team, Williams
F1.
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10th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - PRE-SEASON INTERVIEW
WITH KAZUKI NAKAJIMA
I’m really excited! I’ve done
a lot of work over the winter with my engineers and it’s
all gone well.
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10th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - PRE-SEASON INTERVIEW
WITH NICO ROSBERG
First of all, the goal is for the team to
progress as a whole and take a step forward from 2007.
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5th Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - PRE-SEASON INTERVIEW
WITH PATRICK HEAD
We want to continue our progress back, from
a very low point of 2006, to being a leading team, always
in a position to challenge for race wins and the Championship.
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3rd Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - PRE-SEASON INTERVIEW
WITH FRANK WILLIAMS
The team will mark several landmarks this
season. Did you foresee such success when you first started
your career?
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3rd Mar - WILLIAMS F1 - HAMLEYS EXTENDS SPONSORSHIP
The AT&T Williams team today announced
an extension of its sponsorship partnership with Hamleys,
the iconic international toy store.
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February 2008
28th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - mydiamonds.com Joins
AT&T Williams
The AT&T Williams team today announced
a new sponsorship partnership with mydiamonds.com, the new
diamond jewellery website to be launched shortly by Aurum
Holdings, which owns Royal Jewellers Mappin & Webb,
as well as Goldsmiths and Watches of Switzerland.
28th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - All Saints Confirmed
As A New Partner
The AT&T Williams team today announced
a new sponsorship partnership with All Saints, the rapidly
growing fashion label part-owned by Kevin Stanford, the
retail entrepreneur.
27th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
Today marked the end of a long, but productive
winter test period and Nico and Kazuki have worked hard
all week on the finishing touches.
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26th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
Nico Rosberg once again concentrated on set-up
work all day today ready for Australia.
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25th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
This morning’s rain hampered Kazuki’s
running somewhat but drier conditions in the afternoon allowed
him to do some set-up work.
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21st Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
This week we continued our winter test programme
at the Barcelona circuit. Although the first two days were
wet, the final day was predominantly dry
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20th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
We spent the whole morning practising pitstops
with the race team and both race drivers today.
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19th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Barcelona
The weather really hampered play today in
Barcelona. The intermittent rain, in particular, made the
track very greasy for the duration of the session
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19th Feb - WILLIAMS F1 - WILLIAMS WORLD CHAMPIONS
Revealing the fifth in a series of six anniversarial
racing liveries today at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona,
two Williams FW30s will take to the track carrying the handwritten
best wishes of the team’s seven World Champion drivers.
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January 2008
24th Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Valencia Testing
This week marked the initial test for the
FW30 and it was a good beginning from a reliability and
performance point of view.
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23rd Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Valencia Testing
Test Objective: Systems checks on the FW30,
reliability progression on the FW29B
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22nd Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Valencia Testing
Today, Nico Rosberg took the FW30 out for
its first official test day.
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21st Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Valencia Testing
Today was an installation day for the FW30.
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21st Jan - WILLIAMS TOYOTA FW30 TAKES TO
THE TRACK WITH THE WILL OF 519 STAFF
The AT&T Williams team’s 2008 season
race car, the Williams Toyota FW30, took to the track at
the Valencia circuit in Southern Spain this morning for
a shakedown prior to starting its winter testing in earnest
tomorrow.
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18th Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - McGREGOR CONFIRMED
AS AT&T WILLIAMS’ OFFICIAL CLOTHING PARTNER
AT&T Williams today confirmed that McGregor,
the premium fashion brand, is to be the official clothing
partner of the team for the next three seasons.
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16th Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
At Jerez we concluded a three day test with
all our drivers working on the reliability of the 2008 transmission.
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15th Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
Test Objective: System development of the
interim FW29B
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14th Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
Test Objective: System development of the
interim FW29B
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14th Jan - 2008 A Landmark Year for Williams
F1
Today, to inaugurate the start of Williams’
thirtieth year of Formula One racing, the team will unveil
the first of six winter test liveries designed to celebrate
a sequence of landmarks
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7th Jan - WILLIAMS F1 - ORIS EXTEND &
INCREASE INVOLVEMENT WITH AT&T WILLIAMS
The AT&T Williams team today confirmed
that long-term official watch partner, Oris, has extended
and increased its existing partnership agreement with the
team for a further three years.
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December 2007
13th Dec - WILLIAMS F1 - NICO HÜLKENBERG
CONFIRMED AS TEST DRIVER
The AT&T Williams team today confirmed
that the twenty year old driver, Nico Hülkenberg from
Emmerich in Germany, has been contracted as the team’s
official test driver for the forthcoming 2008 season.
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7th Dec - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
Today was our last day of testing of the year.
Between them, Nico Rosberg, Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Hulkenberg
managed to complete all the development work on our agenda
over the four days and covered 2,085kms
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6th Dec - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
Kazuki rejoined the test today and worked
on set-up developments with Nico Rosberg in the interim
FW29Bs.
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5th Dec - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
Nico Rosberg and Nico Hulkenberg were on duty
for the team today. We’ve had a productive session,
which saw the pair steadily work through the programme with
no major problems.
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5th Dec - WILLIAMS F1 - Philips Shavers signs
multi-year sponsorship with AT&T Williams
The agreement, which runs through to the end
of the 2010 Formula One season, includes exclusive access
to promotional collateral and an increased level of branding
with the team.
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4th Dec - WILLIAMS F1 - Testing Jerez
We opened our four day test at Jerez today
with Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Huelkenberg
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November 2007
16th Nov - WILLIAMS F1 - WILLIAMS WELCOMES
ICA FINDINGS
Williams F1 today welcomed the findings of
the FIA’s International Court of Appeal (ICA), investigating
the matter of the fuel temperatures recorded at the Brazilian
Grand Prix earlier this year.
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15th Nov - WILLIAMS F1 - Barcelona Testing
Our last day in Barcelona delivered another
productive session for Nico and Kazuki, with Kazuki covering
considerable mileage despite numerous red flags.
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14th Nov - WILLIAMS F1 - Barcelona Testing
Both Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima returned
to the cockpit today for our second day at a slightly warmer
Circuit de Catalunya
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7th Nov - WILLIAMS F1 - NAKAJIMA JOINS ROSBERG
IN 2008 DRIVER LINE-UP
The AT&T Williams team confirmed today
that their driver line up for the 2008 FIA Formula One World
Championship would be Nico Rosberg partnered by Kazuki Nakajima.
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2nd Nov - WILLIAMS F1 - Seasons Review -
Q+A WITH NICO ROSBERG
The balance of the year has been positive.
In many ways, it’s been a good year for me. As is
normal during a long season, we had some ups and downs.
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2nd Nov - WILLIAMS F1 - Seasons Review
In a season dominated by some of the closest
on-track competition seen in recent years, the AT&T
Williams team concluded the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship
with a rewarding fourth place in the Constructors’
standings
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October 2007
21st Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - Brazilian GP Race
The AT&T Williams team have today secured
fourth place in the 2007 FIA World Constructors’ Championship
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20th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - Brazilian GP Qualifying
The AT&T Williams team had a somewhat
unsatisfactory qualifying session for Sunday’s Brazilian
Grand Prix.
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19th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - Brazilian GP Practice
AT&T Williams opened their Brazilian Grand
Prix campaign today steadily progressing through set-up
work during Friday’s free practice sessions.
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15th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - Brazilian GP Preview
Brazil takes centre stage this weekend for
the much anticipated 2007 FIA World Championship showdown
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10th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - INTERVIEW WITH KAZUKI
NAKAJIMA
I’m really excited, and I have to say
many thanks to the team for giving me this opportunity.
Now, I’m just really looking forward to getting to
Brazil and making the most of it.
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10th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - CHINESE GRAND PRIX
- POST RACE SUMMARY
The fourth Chinese Grand Prix was unrewarding
for the AT&T Williams team, a non-points scoring finish
concluding an unsuccessful fortnight in the Far East.
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9th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - KAZUKI NAKAJIMA NOMINATED
TO RACE IN BRAZIL
The AT&T Williams team today confirmed
that Kazuki Nakajima will race for the team in the final
Grand Prix of the 2007 season at Interlagos in Brazil in
a fortnight’s time.
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8th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - Alex Wurz Announces
His Retirement From Active Racing
The AT&T Williams driver, Alex Wurz, today
confirmed his retirement from active racing in Formula One.
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7th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - CHINESE GRAND PRIX
RACE
The AT&T Williams team had an eventful
but ultimately unrewarding Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai
today, with varying wet weather conditions unfortunately
not assisting the team with their race strategies.
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6th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - CHINESE GRAND PRIX
QUALIFYING
The AT&T Williams team endured a difficult
qualifying session ahead of tomorrow’s Chinese Grand
Prix with both drivers struggling with car performance and
as a consequence will line up on the eight and tenth row
of the grid for tomorrow’s race.
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5th Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - CHINESE GRAND PRIX
PRACTICE
The AT&T Williams team had a methodical
day of preparation ahead of tomorrow’s qualifying
for the Japanese Grand Prix.
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3rd Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
- POST RACE SUMMARY
Fuji Speedway may have been absent from the
Formula One calendar for 30 years, but conditions upon its
return for last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix proved
remarkably similar to those at the sport’s last visit
in 1977.
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1st Oct - WILLIAMS F1 - CHINESE GRAND PRIX
PREVIEW
Resembling the Chinese symbol for “high”,
Shanghai’s track layout is a demanding mix of straights,
turns and hairpins.
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September 2007
30th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
RACE
In a lottery of a race that took place in
challenging wet conditions, with two safety car periods,
the AT&T Williams team had a disappointing race, losing
both cars as two of ten retirements
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29th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
QUALIFYING
In low visibility, wet conditions, Nico Rosberg
recorded the sixth fastest lap time in the Qualifying session
for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway.
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28th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
PRACTICE
As a largely new venue for Formula One, the
AT&T Williams team spent much of Friday at the Fuji
Speedway validating work done by simulation prior to arriving
in Japan
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25th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
PREVIEW
After 20 years of racing at the Suzuka circuit
in Japan, Formula One changes tack this weekend and re-visits
Fuji Speedway.
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20th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - Jerez Testing
Once again we concentrated on some more systems
checks with Nico and encountered no major problems.
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19th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - Jerez Testing
Nico took over the reins from Kazuki for day
two of running in Jerez. We were a little late getting started
due to a hold up with some parts that were travelling over
from the UK
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18th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - Jerez Testing
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17th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
SUMMARY
The AT&T Williams team had a productive
Belgian Grand Prix in spite of a number of challenges faced
over the race weekend.
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16th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
RACE
Nico Rosberg finished in sixth place in today’s
Belgian Grand Prix, contributing three valuable points for
the second weekend in succession to the tightly contested
mid-field in the Constructor’s Championship.
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15th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
QUALIFYING
Nico Rosberg qualified his Williams-Toyota
in sixth and will start tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix
from fifth place* following a strong performance
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14th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
PRACTICE
The AT&T Williams team had a somewhat
challenging day at Spa-Francorchamps today, with morning
practice times showing reasonable potential, but more progress
is required.
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11th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
PREVIEW
The 7 kilometre Spa Francorchamps circuit
makes a welcome return to the Formula One calendar after
a brief absence and some light re-modelling.
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10th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - MONZA GP RACE SUMMARY
The AT&T Williams team had a productive
Italian GP, the first of a pair of backto- back high speed,
low downforce races, and with a strong sixth place and three
points secured by Nico Rosberg,
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9th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - MONZA GP RACE
The AT&T Williams team gained further
advantage over its closest rivals in the Italian Grand Prix
at Monza today as it collected three points, strengthening
fifth place in the Constructors’ Championship.
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8th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - MONZA GP QUALIFYING
Qualifying for Sunday’s Italian Grand
Prix almost replicated that of the last race in Turkey for
the AT&T Williams team.
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7th Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - MONZA GP PRACTICE
The AT&T Williams team benefited from
a constructive free practice at Monza today as the paddock
enjoyed less pressurised Friday conditions having already
spent time testing here last week.
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3rd Sep - WILLIAMS F1 - MONZA GP PREVIEW
As is normal for Monza, we will run a different
front wing, rear wing and bodywork package to enable the
car to cope with the high top speeds
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