For Williams the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was a disappointing finale to a successful season. The British team have scored more points this year (34.5) than they have since 2005, but their ninth and 13th place finishes for outgoing drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima at Yas Marina were far from representative of the FW31’s [...]
The Brazilian Grand Prix saw, not only the first non-finish of the year for Nico Rosberg, but a double retirement for the Williams team. Chief Operations Engineer Rod Nelson talks of the race in São Paulo as well as the final meeting of the season in Abu Dhabi on 1 November.
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Williams had looked very strong in Saturday’s rain-swept qualifying session at Interlagos. Unfortunately, when sunshine arrived for Sunday’s race they were always likely to struggle, thanks to a set-up biased towards wet-weather running. As it turned out, set-up was largely an irrelevance, as a gearbox failure caused Nico Rosberg’s first retirement of 2009 while a [...]