The 2024 Components 1 São Paulo Grand Prix was a troublesome week for Williams.
With moist climate pushing qualifying for the Grand Prix to Sunday morning, all ten groups confronted a major problem in navigating a qualifying session — once more in moist circumstances — happening simply hours earlier than the Grand Prix. That problem was even more durable for Williams as each Alexander Albon and Franco Colapinto crashed throughout the moist qualifying session, placing the workforce on the clock to get each vehicles prepared for the race.
Whereas the harm to Albon’s FW46 was an excessive amount of to beat, the workforce was in a position to get Colapinto’s automotive prepared for the race. Nonetheless, he crashed once more within the dismal circumstances, and the workforce confronted a brand new problem in getting each vehicles rebuilt again on the manufacturing facility.
Now the workforce has shared a behind-the-scenes take a look at how that course of performed out at their manufacturing facility in Grove. In an unimaginable video shared by the workforce on Monday, you possibly can see how workforce members waited till late within the evening to obtain the 2 vehicles and all of the broken elements in a number of completely different freight containers, and labored by means of the evening to rebuild the 2 vehicles:
The method included figuring out what elements had been salvageable, and what elements couldn’t be reused on both automotive. Finally, after hours and hours of labor, the workforce had two vehicles rebuilt and prepared for this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The video is an incredible reminder about all of the arduous work that goes into operating an F1 workforce, and the way most of the unsung heroes put in hours of labor behind the scenes, away from the brilliant lights of race weekend.
