Williams has a strong start this Formula 1 season, since they currently sit at the front of the field. After ten race weekends, the team has accumulated 55 points, which is good enough for fifth place in the classification of the F1 builders championship and exceeds its total combined totals of 23 and 2024.
Now the director of his team will be in that position for a few more years.
Thors Day, Williams announced a new long -term contract for James Vowles, who joined the team before the 2023 campaign. It is a birthday gift for Vowles, who will hold his 46th birthday on Friday.
“We are delighted that James has signed a new contract with Atlassian Williams Racing and committed his future to complete the mission we are together,” said Matthew Savage, president of Atlassian Williams Racing and Dorilton Capital. “He has brought experience, energy and strategic leadership to the task of restoring Williams to the upper pass of the podium. We are not there yet, but you can the impulse we are building in Grove and you are excited about what is coming.”
Given the results to date, and the transformation in Williams, signing votes to a long -term extension seems a wise investment for the team. Williams joined the Formula 1 grid for the 1978 season and enjoyed a tremendous series during the 1980s, since the team won its first builders championship in 1980. The team has won a total of nine championships of Constructors (1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997) as seven pilots.3
Since that season, the team has been caught in the back of the network:
Vowles has brought a bold vision to the team, one that emphasized before the 2024 campaign. Talking to the media, including SB nationIn New York City, when the team launched its Challenger 2024 votes described how to transform the team sometimes reduces to break everything and not be afraid to fail.
“So everything is a long -term resolution, not in the short term [and] As a result of that, we teach and continually we are going to run huge risks with this company. I will not be with Hero for the restriction that my work is at stake, “Vowles said in February 2024.” If we are not doing a job good enough, the only way to take this team to the front is [to] Break everything
“I have used the terms internally and break the cycle” and it is exactly what we are doing, whatever we have done, just what we have done in the last two months. I am really proud of what we have achieved.
“It’s not good enough.
“This is what it seems and how we get there, and it is only giving everyone the idea of” this is the gap. “I will be with you on this trip and I will be on the shoulder that things go wrong.
Although some setbacks on the road have one leg, including the glue with Logan Saregeant for the beginning of the 2024 season before replacing it with Franco Colapinto, you cannot deny the upward trend in Williams. The team signed the best driver available in the transfers market last season in Carlos Sainz Jr., who has made it clear that Vowles’s vision is a reason why he joined Williams. Speech SB nation After the qualification at the Miami Grand Prix, Sainz talked about that vision and his confidence in Vowles.
“I like [James Vowles] Because he is a very clear man [vision]. It has a plan and will compromise 100%. He trusts his feelings, his plan, his project, “Sainz said in May.
“And support it.
“That is why I committed to James as an individual, but also as a Williams team because I see a very clear project and ambition, very clear objectives, and we need to commit to them and follow them.
“Hello, he also promised that this year’s car would be an improvement for last year and until now a leg is his leg and I am slippery that goes in the right direction.”
Now the whole team is betting on that vision. And it could be an intelligent commitment for reasons beyond the votes, and its vision of what the team can become 2026. Williams is a client team, one that uses Mercedes power units. As the new regulations arrive for the 2026 season, including the new regulations of the power unit, one of the worst well -saved secrets in the F1 paddock is that Mercedes can be ahead of the game when the new power units arrive.
While any of this may be because Mercedes left the door when there was another regulation change before the 2014 season, early rumors around Paddock indicate that the team is seeing success with the duration of the tests.
That can reinforce vision vision in 2026, and beyond.
“I am delighted to sign a new contract with the Atlassian Williams Racing, which has felt at home from the moment I crossed the door,” Vowles said in a statement on Thursday. “This iconic team has already given me some incredible memories and we are all united in our ambition to develop our Legacy and Winld championships again.
“Around the last two years we have focused on fixing the foundations, and now we have a platform for glory in the coming years.”
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