Vowles has no concerns of the plans Williams has in place

James Vowles has no concerns about the plans Williams have in place for rest of F1 2024 season and the incoming big 2025 year when Carlos Sainz arrives.

With Williams not likely to have larger updates for rest of the 2024 F1 season when its rivals will potentially have so, it may not be able to catch Visa Cash App RB in the fight for sixth in the championship. In the last few rounds, the team has cleared Alpine for eighth and put itself in the fight against VCARB and Haas.

The former is sixth with 34 points against the latter’s 31. Williams, meanwhile, has 16. The team lost good chances to score and is certainly a bit far in the battle with six races to go. With the decision to not bring larger pool of updates, it puts itself slightly behind this year to catch up in 2025.

Their development was also hampered due to incidents in early part of the year and them needing to build parts for the crashed items. But Vowles has no concerns with the plans they have in mind. “You can’t underestimate Haas, who they’ve been there every single race, that they’re on the pace, or VCARB particularly in that instance,” he said to media.

“The midfield is, despite us, perhaps being edging a little bit ahead of them, it’s still milliseconds separating all of us. So it would be down to a little bit of fortune in racing and a little bit of us making sure we do our job right to the end of the year. The main thing is I have no concerns about the programme that we have in place at the moment.

“There was a really good step in performance on the car in Singapore, and we haven’t fully optimised the error package that we put on previously. Everything that we’re trying to do, all teams are trying to do, is get the performance of the car as quickly as possible. So the way I more see it is that we’ve stepped up in advance, and we have a few more races to use it than others when they turn up.

“The second bit is all you can focus on is yourself. You’ve seen enough times this year that teams have tried to add performance and it hasn’t translated. In our case, we look positive in that regard and what I can focus on is delivering the most that we can out of the car and the drivers for all remaining events,” summed up Vowles.

Here’s special US GP rear wing for Williams

Here’s F1 drivers on cost after Zak O’Sullivan’s drop

Here’s James Vowles praising Franco Colapinto

Here’s Franco Colpainto on social media boost + more

Here’s link to a F1 Discord channel, join in to interact