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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

By Miles Cooper November 29, 2024
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Franco Colapinto will compete within the closing two grands prix of the 2024 Components 1 season with Williams’s previous entrance suspension design, because of his Las Vegas qualifying crash.

Colapinto’s heavy shunt in Q2 final weekend means Williams has been compelled to switch the broken entrance suspension components of his automotive with the model it was operating 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 package deal launched on the Zandvoort spherical simply after the summer season break, however the crew’s many crashes throughout 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 mentioned in Qatar forward of this weekend’s penultimate race of the season.

“So, that is the previous spec and another issues. However that is what it’s, and we’ve got to take care of that and attempt to do our greatest to maximise the automotive.”

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

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

Colapinto again to older-spec Williams suspension after Vegas crash

Marshals load the broken automotive of Franco Colapinto, Williams FW4

Picture by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Photographs

Talking on the Losail monitor on Thursday, Colapinto additionally mentioned that when operating in Vegas qualifying, “Q2 [there] put me in a scenario of getting to push the boundaries just a little bit greater than [in] different periods.

“And for my feeling, that is what put me in that scenario of taking a bit extra threat. And that was a bit an excessive amount of threat 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 nicely. 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 these items occur, it is a part of racing. Let’s have a look at the way it goes right here.”

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