Williams F1 team principal James Vowles has revealed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz steered the team’s strategy after crashing out of the season-op𒆙ening 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 incideﷺnt-packed season opener in Melbourne held in treacherous conditions.

But the former Ferrari driver then turned “additional strategist”, according to team boss Vowles, and pushed Williams to make the right call to switch back to intermediate tyres when a sudden hea♉vy shower hit the track.

Sainz’s input helped teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Albon secure a brilli☂ant fifth 𒁏place, marking the team’s best result in a full grand prix distance since Lance Stroll finished on the podium at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

“No result is the result of one person ✱individually, it’s the result of the team performing,” Vowles told Sky Sports. “The pit stops were on p♔oint, the strategy, well done to them today.

“One point ♑to note on the strategy 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.”

Vowles said Will♔iams still need to inves꧒tigate exactly what caused Sainz to crash out of his race debut for the team.

“It’s still slightly oღdd so we need to go through it more,” Vowles said.

“Effectively it was just an upshift but there ꦦwas 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 he is an expert driver. So it’s a fine l💜ine.”

Alex Albon hails Williams strategy

Albon praised Williams🔥’ quick decision-making with regards to pulling off the well-timed switch to intermediates.

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

"First race it's not easy🐎 to be dialled in, in terms of strateᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚgy 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 just a fantastic start and it just shows we made a huge step from last year. These results, P4s, they'r🐎e not going to come aroౠund very many times this year.

"We've talked a lot about capitalising early🔯 internally, in trying to make sure that we took advantage of rookie drivers and things like that to get those points quickly."