Williams have become the first F1 team to launch their full 2016 car ahead of
the start of pre-season testing on Monday.
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online launch on Friday, Williams jumped their Italian rivals by unexpectedly
releasing the first images of the new FW38 on social media.Decked out in the
same Martini-themed livery first seen in 2014, Williams are aiming to take
another step forward in the new season after re-establishing themselves as
podium contenders with consecutive third-place finishes in the Constructors
Championship. However, team owner Frank Williams acknowledges simply staying in
the top three will be a challenge in 2016, with improvement expected from rivals
who underperformed last season.Williams has started to cement our position back
amongst the front running teams after finishing third in the Championship in the
past two seasons, said Williams. This has been a great achievement given the
resources of those around us.Staying where we are will be a challenge in itself,
but we are determined to keep improving because only winning will ever be good
enough.Williams field an unchanged driver line-up of Felipe Massa and Valtteri
Bottas in 2016 with the pair having proved well-matched over the previous two
seasons. The car will again be powered by Mercedes engines. Williams say they
have focused on improving their car in slow corners (Picture courtesy of
Williams Racing) The Grove team finished on the podium four times last year and
say they have focused on improving the FW37s weaker areas.2016 promises to be a
very competitive year in Formula 1 and there will be a number of strong teams
who have us in their sights, said deputy team principal Claire Williams.We are
confident that we have made a step forward over the winter and that the FW38
will build on the strengths of the FW37 and address some of its weaknesses. We
started design work on the car earlier than normal and hopefully this extra
development time will stand us in good stead.F1 in 2016: Full calendar, launch
dates and testing scheduleIn keeping with most teams heading into testing,
Williams stressed that the car revealed on Friday is by no means the final
product with a first update package already in development for the first race in
Australia on March 20.It is no secret that the low speed performance of the FW37
didnt match its high speed performance so a lot of time was spent looking into
why this was and subsequently making changes, which we hope will improve the
situation, said technical chief Pat Symonds. Whos who at Williams in 2016 Team
principal Sir Frank Williams Deputy team principal Claire Williams Chief
technical officer Pat Symonds Head of performance engineering Rob Smedley Head
of aerodynamics Jason Somerville Chief designer Ed Wood Senior performance
engineering Andrew Murdoch Sporting manager Steve Nielsen Race drivers Felipe
Massa and Valtteri Bottas Although the last two years have witnessed an overdue
rensissance for the nine-time constructors champions, former driver Pastor
Maldonados victory at the 2012 Spanish GP remains Williams sole triumph in the
last 12 years.Williams best result of 2015 was third place at the Canadian,
Austrian, Italian and Mexican GPs.As a team we need to be able to win races,
which is what we are always trying to do, said Bottas, who enters his fourth
season at the team.Im sure we have made improvements everywhere as a team, so
were definitely looking to fight for better results this year.The secrets of F1
testing: What really goes on?The first Barcelona test starts on Monday February
22 and the Sky Sports F1 Digital team will be providing live commentary from
dawn until dusk on all four days of both Barcelona tests while Sky Sports News
HQ will also deliver live updates from trackside. Every race live in 2016 Sky
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Britain dispatched Edouard Roger-Vasselin, also of France, 6-3, 6-3. Making his
first appearance since injuring his wrist a month ago, Del Potro had difficulty
with his service games in the first set.
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to look at those opportunities as they arise," Pierce said in an interview from
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. -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again
it will be a strong World Cup favourite. HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- NASCARs final four,
er, sorry, Championship 4, have been jetted from city to city, talk show to talk
show and media conference to media conference. Now, finally, it is time for Kyle
Busch, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano to get on with the business
of one of those four actually winning that championship.Exactly what that title
will mean depends on which one of the four Cup hopefuls youre speaking of -- a
spectrum of outcomes that ranges from redemption to validation to history, both
the rewriting of the record book and the next step toward possibly rewriting it
again years down the road.Weve all known each other for a long time now, Carl
Edwards explained Thursday during the foursomes final formal media obligation
before getting to Homestead-Miami Speedway for Sundays 400-mile season finale.
Our stories are similar because were all racers, but really they are completely
different. Were from different places. Weve had really different NASCAR careers.
So, we all want to win the championship, but for each of us it might mean
something a little different.For Edwards, its the redemption. In 2011 at this
track in this event, he missed out on a Sprint Cup title in a manner befitting
the victim of a Hitchcock film. He finished a nine-month season by leading the
most laps and finishing second in a race twisted by rain, tying Tony Stewart in
the point standings but losing the title via a tiebreaker of wins. The onetime
wunderkind, now 37, is arguably the best current driver not to win a
championship, with 28 Cup wins and a pair of runner-up championship
finishes.But, if NASCAR brass is being honest, an Edwards title, while surely
overwhelmingly well-received in the garage, wont provide the kind electricity
the sanctioning body seeks heading into a crucial offseason.Sorry, Cuz, but
thats the truth.If Edwards was once viewed as a wunderkind, then Loganos
earmarking was more along the lines of savior. The Sliced Bread title bolted to
him as a preteen short tracker served its purpose of providing the spotlight
that moved him up the racing ladder in a hurry. He was in a Cup ride at 18 --
the first driver born in the 1990s to hold a steering wheel in NASCARs top
division. But when the wins didnt come quickly enough, that spotlight turned
into a heat lamp and he nearly withered. At 22, he was labeled by many as washed
up.A Cup title would finally fulfill the Sliced Bread promise, the at-long-last
christening of the now 26-year-old king of the suddenly large Cup contingent of
20-somethings. And though he politely deflects talk of validation bordering on
revenge, the mention of it does spark a smile.I dont really think about that, he
said. But I do know who has stuck with me through thick or thin and I know they
will be sticking with me Sunday night whether we win the championship or
not.NASCAR no doubt will stick by Logano, too. But again, apologies to the kid,
because he isnt the driver the suits are likely rooting for.No, to generate
headlinnes here in the depths of the football season, the fine folks in Daytona
and Charlotte no doubt have their eyes on the No.
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ride of Jimmie Johnson, the only member of the Championship 4 racing for
immortality. A Cup would be his seventh, equaling one of NASCARs two most
coveted career records. The only other racers with that many titles are the two
greatest in the history of the sport, Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.Yes,
there are those who still try to discount Johnsons championship success to a
Chase postseason format that The King and The Intimidator never used. Yes, there
are those who continue to paint Johnson as vanilla, a starched-shirt corporate
clone.Those people are wrong.They are being handed a chance to see motorsports
history achieved by one of the greatest racers ever born. But even if they dont
appreciate it now, one day they will. Sometimes thats how history works.I think
when he won five [Cups] in a row, he was winning a lot of races and a lot of
championships and maybe people got tired of it, his boss, team owner Rick
Hendrick, said Friday. I still say that Jimmie is going to get more credit when
hes done than hell get when hes driving.That brings us to Kyle Busch. He is a
former teammate to Johnson and Logano and a current teammate to Edwards. Like
Logano, he was perhaps thrown into a Cup car too soon and, though more
successful quicker than his friends, Busch also struggled with the spotlight.
Like Edwards, the story of Buschs career was written with lots of individual
race wins (38) but dogged by the inability to win a Sprint Cup championship.That
changed one year ago. In the four-man, run-for-your-life, beat-the-other-three,
win-and-in Chase finale format, he did all of the above. It was a night that
included redemption, validation and history. If he does the same on Sunday
night, it will further amplify what he did one year ago.A second Cup for Busch,
still only 31 years old, would also perhaps signify the start of something much
larger. It might very well be the first step toward one day, years from now,
running alongside Johnson, Petty and Earnhardt, perhaps even passing them. And
thats why, though we -- and NASCAR -- might not realize it now, a Kyle Busch
championship might be the most intriguing Sunday night outcome of them all.I
think about last year at Homestead racing Jeff Gordon for the championship and
all the history that came with his retirement and then Jimmie this year going
for seven, Busch said Thursday. Our goal when we all started as racers wasnt to
make history. But if youre fortunate enough to have a chance, or even have a
chance to see it, thats pretty cool.Well all have that chance Sunday night at
Homestead-Miami Speedway. Now we just have to wait and see whos going to write
it. And what it ultimately means as the sport rolls over the horizon ahead.
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