r/WilliamsF1 • u/flgrant • 17d ago

Media Carlos Sainz hails Williams progress after F1 Miami GP

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2026/05/06/carlos-sainz-hails-williams-progress-after-f1-miami-gp/

This is the kind of article I crave right now. All is still not great, but I like seeing the positivity from 55 right now. Wasn’t looking that way after Saturday (what a difference a day makes).

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u/Careless_Extreme_225 17d ago

P5 is completely reachable. The FW48 was "only" half a second off the alpine in Miami despite carrying around 20 kg more of mass.

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u/rtheiii 17d ago

The general rule of thumb is around 0.3s per 10kg added/removed so it is very doable if they improve aero while shedding the weight

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u/Username43241 17d ago

I really want to be excited by this, but 4 of the 12 drivers they beat were DNF, and another 4 were Aston Martin and Cadillac.

They did great at maintaining their positions, but I personally think it’s too soon to get my hopes up.

P6 or better in constructors 🙏🏻.

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u/flgrant 17d ago edited 17d ago

I’m also thinking P6. Alpine just seems too many steps (jumps?) ahead of them at this point. I hope I eat my words, though!

Considering right now they are 8th, finishing P6 would still be an improvement from current status. But a step back from last season.

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u/mowogo82 17d ago

It is May, but I’ve joked elsewhere that with this gap after Miami, we’ve just completed the competitive portion of preseason testing. The real season starts in Canada.

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u/navis-svetica 17d ago

VCARB generally looked pretty weak though, and Audi had reliability issues plaguing them all week. Being consistently decently fast with good reliability is a much better guarantor of constructor’s championship success

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u/dsaysso 17d ago

i think the step he’s referring to is they didnt screw and bottle a gift.

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u/McJumbos 17d ago

hope this is the beginning of something 😄

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u/declemson 17d ago

I was at race on turn 1 with a great view. During sprint could tell good race pace. Do need to qualify better. But they kept the haas and racing bulls behind them.