James Vowles takes over as team principal at Williams on February 20. he will not participate in the presentation of the car in 2023, which will take place tomorrow. However, the team does not intend to present the FW45, but only a redesign of the car, in which we will see it on the tracks this season.
Vowles will have to tackle more than serious issues that have held back Williams’ progress in recent years, as the team rolled back to the last line of the Constructors’ Championship once again last year. There are a lot of these problems, and he immediately stated that he understands this well, and now, during the transition period, James continues to prepare for this.
“Every morning I wake up at 5 a.m. and write down my thoughts, take some notes, think of directions for future work,” The Race quoted him as saying. – Somehow at Mercedes we asked the team management what it considered the most important element, and the answer was this: people and the general work culture, not machines, not a wind tunnel and not a racing simulator.
People and culture are a priority, and I think this is also true for Williams. Before I get to work, I can’t say exactly where the team is, but these are the priorities that top the list of tasks I need to solve. I need to make sure everyone understands the importance of joining forces and acting together, dividing powers properly, building respectful relationships with colleagues. All of this is incredibly important as we all need to move towards our goal together.”
In any case, Williams is a fully capable team that knows how to build race cars, although last year’s FW44 lost up to 2 seconds per lap to the leaders. Many good talented specialists work there, but in general the team has not managed to achieve stable results in recent years, even at an intermediate level.
But 43-year-old James Vowles is young enough, energetic and already a very experienced professional, and the school he went through at Mercedes, where he was chief strategist, will help him cope with the challenges of a new, even more demanding job. at Williams. How far he will succeed, time will tell, but there is no doubt that he will do everything in his power to justify the trust placed in him.
Source: F1 News
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