James Vowles admitted that Williams already has to spend the 2025 budget on overcoming the consequences of a series of accidents that caused very significant damage to logistics, and only at the cost of enormous efforts did the team manage to enter two cars to take.
James Vowles: “I don’t think teams are designed to withstand six serious accidents in a row, there’s little doubt about that. In general, we have four, maximum five, of each machine part in stock. And if in an accident you break five or six of these components, you will find yourself in a problematic situation – you do not need long calculations to understand this.
This required enormous efforts from both the team working at the races and the core team of the team. There were cases where temporary workers or even shift workers asked me what else they could do to help. It’s an incredible feeling to be part of an organization that is willing to go the extra mile to ensure we can field two cars every weekend.
This of course distracts us from preparing for 2025. This has a smaller impact on the program aimed at 2026, but we must make serious efforts to continue fighting with our rivals on the track.
No one could have predicted that we would have to deal with such serious damage at such a late stage in the season. The consequences of this also affect next year’s budget: you have to spend it little by little, and that is frustrating. We are talking about hundreds of thousands that we didn’t want to spend this year that we could use in 2025.”
Source: F1 News
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