Williams Launch 2025 F1 car in Special Livery while Carlos Sainz joins Alex Albon for the new season | F1 news

Williams discovered his new car at the age of 2025 in a one -time livery on the eve of the season, hoping that the significant arrival of Carlos Sainz will help them cross the Formula One network.

Starting a new car in Silverstone the day after McLaren became the first team to run the challenger 2025 in the same place, Sainz drove the first round in FW47 shortly after 10am on Friday.

The event was the first time that the impressive new look of Sainz and Alex Albona, who would ride later on Friday, publicly seen in tandem.

Speaking immediately after driving his first round, Sainz said, “I can tell you that everything went fine, which is good news.

“The installation circle of a newborn car is always a little cunning, but everything has succeeded in how it should be and now we are ready to get into the running plan.

“I have to give feedback – two or three things I felt that it could improve or feel in a pilot cabin I want to talk to them about – then we’ll prepare the car for running on stains and probably starting to push it a little by little.”

All 10 F1 teams decline from discovering its real racing leaves 2025 to the event of launching the season next week at the O2 Arena in London, which is live on Sky Sports F1 From 8pm on Tuesday, February 18th.

Tim Director Williams James Vowles said, “It’s the evolution of last year’s car. We had a reasonable winter, but it’s always hard to know because the field was finished when we finished the last race, we qualified within half a second, so the field closes and do not know How good they had from winter.

“What I can say is that I am proud of the job we have achieved over the winter. When you look at the car, you can see a thousand details that are another evolution of what we have done before, so there is no bolt from where it was, we ensure that we are constantly moving the team forward. “

This week, Williams published a new sponsor of titles after signing in his long history, describing the “biggest partnership agreement” with the Atlasian Software Company.

A team headquartered in Grove, who are ninefold constructors in F1, but the last one won the 1997 title and the 2012 race, he started his third season under the leadership of Vowles.

As for the chances of the team to reach the final of the 2025 stand, Vowles added: “Nothing is impossible. There were several surprises last year. We are at our disposal a lot more ingredients.

“In the usual race weekend, it will be unlikely, but there are circumstances that will fall and we have two strongest drivers who will give him absolutely everything, as I do.”

The 45-year-old joined the Mercedes 2023, where he was director of the Silver Arrows Strategy, and headed to the overhaul Williams and out of trails with the aim of catching rivals and placed the foundations of a place to a place to a place to a long-term success in the new success the time of the F1 rules of 2026.

After defeating rivals from midfielder Alpine and Sauber, Ferrari was released for Sainza-Sainza, so they could bring in sevenfold World Champion Lewis Hamilton-Williams for the first time the first time had a driver in a multi-race in his line of Felipe Mass in 2017.

Vowles described the signing of Sainz, who won Four Grands Prix in Ferrari and finished fifth in last year’s World Cup, at a two -year agreement as a “strong statement of intention” when the move was published last year.

The 30-year-old Spaniard joins Albon (28) in an experienced and fast setting, which is already considered one of the best in this year’s variable network.

Albon begins his fourth season in Williams, who consistently proved his main driver in his time in Grove so far, but now he is now clearly facing his most difficult internal challenge.

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After crossing the 10th and the last in the constructor championship to the surprise of the seventh in the first year of Vowles, Williams slid a little back to the ninth 2024 and scored 11 fewer points.

In the midst of the introduction of new methods and work practices in their factory last winter, the team experienced a particularly full of season in 24 races.

The FW46 was initially of pace and overweight, while the lack of spare chassis for the early round of the season saw that they were suffering a shame that there were only one racing car at the Australian Grand Prix when Alex Albon did significant damage to his collision during training on Friday in Melbourne.

In the first half of the campaign, Williams scored only four points, in the first half of the campaign and eventually lost patience with the shape of US driver Logan Sargeant, who was discarded in August after a huge collision in practice in the Dutch Grand Prix.

Junior driver Franco Colapinto handed second place for the last nine rounds of the season, and the Argentine made quickly initial acclimatization on F1, twice scored points in his first four races – with Albon on the board again – as Williams found a car improvement in The last months of the campaign.

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