French GP Race
22 June 08
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The AT&T Williams team return home from a fruitless weekend in
France with neither driver able to secure points in today’s French
Grand Prix. Kazuki Nakajima brought his FW30 home in the same position
in which he started the race, 15th. At a disadvantage from the outset
due to his ten-place penalty which put him on the last row of the grid,
Nico Rosberg drove a clean race on a one stop strategy to finish 16th.
With a two week gap before its home Grand Prix and a test at the
Silverstone track, the team will return to Grove to assess its
performance with a view to a more productive British Grand Prix.
Kazuki Nakajima:
It was a difficult race for us. We decided to go for a two stop
strategy, which was the best direction to take under the circumstances.
All weekend we’ve been suffering with a lack of pace and that hurt us
during the race. We couldn’t have done much better today.
Nico Rosberg:
In Canada, I was fighting the Ferraris and the BMWs, and here I was
fighting at the back of the pack. It’s incredible, and not a very nice
feeling. I thought I would be able to fight a bit more; I was giving it
my all as usual, but the car simply didn’t have the speed and it was
very difficult. I am now looking to score some points at Silverstone -
at least I won’t have a grid penalty there!
Patrick Head, Director of Engineering:
Obviously that was a very mediocre performance. From here, we must go
away and try to understand our mistakes and put them right to come out
fighting at Silverstone because I am sure that we can do better than we
managed today.
