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The seat that spoiled Williams' season

So far one of the most talked-about behind-the-scenes issues at F-1 is one of the most grotesque design flaws we've ever heard-a glitch in the Grove team's car seat that may be the main drag on the Williams at the moment ... The very low performance of the English team in the current season is a sign of great concern for the Williams summit - some people familiar with the automotive world already speak to an eventual bankruptcy of the traditional English team.How could this seat failure be possible with all the technological resources used today in the design of an F-1 car today ... To get an idea, practically every process from the sketch on the sheet of paper to the final stage is all computerized, that is, human intervention is minimal - how could this great non-conformity go blank.The team of Claire Williams and Co. has a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars and even with all this budget and a whole structure of cutting edge in the design of the project the designers could not see this anomaly in the car.But the great character in this story was test pilot Robert Kubica, who due to Sergei Sirotkin's complaints, did a more detailed analysis of the car on the track and found that the seat was out of place, and that was what caused the discomfort of the team drivers ... talking about Kubica, it seems like his days at Williams are on the days - Toro Rosso would be interested in hiring him not as a test driver, but as a starter.At the moment all pressure falls on the back of Paddy Lowe(in the photo above) who did at Mercedes in 2016 a great job taking Nico Rosberg to the title in 2016 ... but things currently for Lowe are delicate because at the moment like no one wants to share the blame for the situation complicated team in the championship. To remedy the problem the team of Claire Williams score a points in the championship that by the way every year gets more disputed - to win a few points today is a victory ... dreaming of at least one podium in the third position for today's Williams is a dream.

Kelvin Ayres