Team Talk - Saturday at Austin

Williams

Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering: “FP3 was very wet so we used the session to continue improving our performance in the wet. Adding this to what we learned in the wet in Japan and Russia, Valtteri’s fourth place was an indication of the positive steps we are taking. After not running qualifying today, we have to adjust our programmes and be organised for tomorrow’s qualifying session and the race just a few hours later. The morning is looking wet, but hopefully there should be some dry running in the race which will make it quite interesting.”

Valtteri Bottas: “We had a good session this morning. We have learned a lot and improved the performance in the wet since yesterday. The tyres started to work reasonably well. Finishing fourth was much better than we would expect in the wet. We have to be ready for tomorrow, it will be busy but hopefully we can qualify well.”

Felipe Massa: “Today we ran FP3 in very wet conditions. Everyone wanted to get some running in so there were many cars on track at the start of the session. Because of this, most of my timed laps I had to deal with traffic. The conditions were very difficult and we had very limited running, so we can only hope Sunday brings us some good weather.”