Primed for his second season in Formula 1, Nicholas Latifi says he is grateful to have ‘Mr Saturday’ – team mate George Russell – providing a competitive qualifying benchmark for him at Williams, but insists this year he wants to start getting the upper hand when it comes to the Saturday shootouts.
Jost Capito was well on his way to retirement. Williams, however, offered him to take over the team leadership at the last minute. The opportunity to work for a legendary F1 team like Williams was, according to Capito, a "great opportunity."
One of F1’s biggest shocks: Maldonado’s 2012 win
Date published:
March 9 2021
It’s Pastor Maldonado’s birthday, so we thought we’d take a look back at the madness of the 2012 Spanish GP that made him a race-winner.
Heading into the 2012 season, it’s fair to say the Venezuelan was particularly highly rated in the world of Formula 1 after being involved in a number of incidents and making plenty of mistakes in his first year on the grid.
His second started in the same fashion as, hunting down Fernando Alonso for P5 in the closing stages of the season opener, he crashed out on the final lap. He then retired from two of the next three races due to an engine failure and a puncture.
The livery tweaks just keep coming in 2021’s F1 launch season, with Williams the latest to reveal a dramatically different blue, white and yellow look for the FW43B as they embark on a new chapter following the departure of the Williams family. Here are our five takeaways from their launch…