Having accomplished a filming day with the 2025 F1 automotive, Williams’ chief engineer Dave Robson insisted that the brand new FW47 appears to be very near what the staff had anticipated based mostly on the simulations.
Williams Racing’s 2025 challenger, the FW47, made its on-track debut final Friday, efficiently finishing 200km on the Silverstone circuit. Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz shared driving duties, experiencing this 12 months’s automotive for the primary time.
The day started with a particular stay broadcast, streamed globally, the place the staff unveiled the FW47 and celebrated the staff’s new title partnership with Atlassian. Williams welcomed companions, media and 47 loyal Williams followers from throughout the globe, who have been chosen from greater than 17,000 competitors entrants.
Atlassian appeared on the automotive for the primary time in a one-off bespoke design, with the official 2025 race livery set to be revealed on 18th February on the F1 75 Reside Launch at London’s O2 Enviornment.
Carlos Sainz took to the observe at 10:05am, placing in his first lap within the FW47 livestreamed to the world. Regardless of typical chilly and windy February situations at Silverstone, the Spaniard efficiently accomplished all his deliberate laps with no points, earlier than the Thai driver took to the wheel for the session after lunch, having fun with some transient afternoon solar.
Commenting on Williams‘ day, staff boss James Vowles said: “The primary run of the FW47 is the results of tens of hundreds of hours of labor and a second of immense delight that symbolises the progress we’re making at Atlassian Williams Racing.
“We rolled out the automotive on the exact second we mentioned we’d, on stay tv, with a formidable new driver line-up and a incredible new title associate in Atlassian. There’s a lot to sit up for in 2025 and I can’t wait to go racing subsequent month.”
Reflecting on the debut of the brand new automotive, Williams‘ chief engineer Dave Robson added: “Immediately we launched the FW47 at Silverstone and had the chance to shakedown the brand new automotive and to test that the methods are behaving as supposed.
“Carlos and Alex shared the driving by the day, and between them have been capable of full the permitted 200km with out situation. The automotive ran nicely and, having accomplished just a few cautious laps to test that all the pieces was working appropriately, we have been capable of push the automotive onerous and ensure that there have been no main issues. Inevitably, we discovered just a few very minor points, however these will probably be rapidly resolved earlier than we arrive in Bahrain, they usually didn’t have an effect on the working immediately.
“Within the chilly situations, and utilizing the Pirelli promotional tyres, it’s not possible to evaluate the efficiency of the FW47, nonetheless, the telemetry and driver suggestions means that the fundamental traits of the automotive are very near expectation and there are not any fast dealing with considerations.
“We now have just a few days to make use of the expertise from immediately to finalise our testing plan for Bahrain. Now that we’re assured that the automotive will run nicely, we’re in an ideal place to maximise our time in Bahrain and to make sure that we arrive in Melbourne prepared to start out the 2025 season strongly.”
