Williams F1 team principal James Vowles has revealed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz steered the team’s strateg🐬y after crashing out of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

Sainz suffered a disappointing start to his Williams career when he spun off and hit the wall on the first lap of Sunday’s chaotic and incid𒀰ent-packed season opener in Melbourne held in treacherou🦋s conditions.

But the former Ferrari driver then turned “additional strategist”, according to team boss Vowles, and pushed Williams to make the righ🌱t call to switch back to intermediate tyres when a sudden heav❀y shower hit the track.

Sainz’s input helped teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Alex Albon secure a bril💞liant fifth place, marking the team’s best result in a full grand prix di🔯stance since Lance Stroll finished on the podium at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

“No result is the r♓esult of one person individually, it’s the result of the team performing,” Vowles told Sky Sports. “The pitꦫ stops were on point, the strategy, well done to them today.

“One point to note on the strateꦑgy is there was ⛦an additional strategist today, which was Carlos. Carlos’s insight was incredibly useful on that transition to the inter.

“You saw a number of teams not sure, ‘can we hang it out, do we hang it out?’. ♐Carlos was adamant ‘🅰you won’t survive on that in the last corners’ and he was spot on and helped drive us towards that.”

Vowl💟es said Williams still need to investigat✱e exactly what caused Sainz to crash out of his race debut for the team.

“It’s stil❀l slightly odd so we need to go through it more,” Vowles said.

“Ef🌠fectively it was just an upshift𒁃 but there was more torque than he would have expected at that point. It was tricky out there. A lot of white lines on the ground probably extenuated the issue.

“But you have to remember hℱe iꦯs an expert driver. So it’s a fine line.”

Alex Albon hails Williams strategy

Albon praised Williams’ quick decision-making with r๊egards to pulling off the well-timed switch to intermedia꧋tes.

"I think as⛦ a team we really executed everything we did today," Albon said.

"First race it's not easy to be dialled in, in terms of strategy and approach to the weekend 🌃and we executed everything so well today to get that P4 [P5 after Kimi Antonelli penalty was reversed].

"It's jusℱt a fantastic start and it just shows we made a huge step from last year. These results, P4s, they're not going to come around very many times this year.

"We've talked a lot about capitalising early internally, in trying to make su💟re that we took adv༒antage of rookie drivers and things like that to get those points quickly."