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Italian Grand Prix: Race team notes - Williams

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06/09/2026

James Vowles, Team Principal: "It was nice to see we had some pace in the race to be able to move up the order.

"We lost a few positions on the opening laps before the restart, which may have proved costly for our ability to score points today. But definitely some more clues coming out of the race about where we need to be looking, and working hard and diligently to keep finding performance.
With Carlos, he drove a good race from start to finish, and that was about the best we could have achieved after the restart. With Alex, solid pace all day. We were unable to stop him under the VSC without significant loss of time, so we had to keep him out to the end, but we noticed some concerning vibrations on the front left, and given we weren't fighting for points, the priority at that point is making sure we have no issues.

"Congratulations to Kimi - a very impressive result to come from the back to the front.

"Now looking forward to Madrid in just a few days' time."

Carlos Sainz: "First of all, happy to see Charles unharmed after such a big accident. On our side, we executed a good race today and a strong weekend overall given our limitations. We put together a solid qualifying yesterday and had a good start and race pace today. Boxing under the VSC got us ahead of Ocon with a great pit stop from our mechanics and good pace allowed us to overtake Bearman at the end. I'm now very much looking forward to Madrid next weekend."

Alex Albon: "We tried to go long and make it on one set of hard tyres after the red flag, but inevitably had some degradation towards the end of the race. It was worth the gamble to try. Race pace was the best we've had in awhile, due to taking a new PU this weekend, but it also shows what we have underneath us and what we have to do to get to where we want to be. We need to review the strategy from today and see what we could've done differently - we had a decent race, but there are always things to tidy up. Madrid will be a completely different track, and it won't be easy, but we're looking forward to the challenge."

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