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Williams' hopes swing in the wind with ‘peaky' FW43B

If the wind is blowing in the right direction, Williams FW43B is 'very fast', but if it's not, well therein lies the problem says George Russell. Russell put Williams' 2021 car, the FW43B, through its paces at the Bahrain circuit on Sunday where he clocked the sixth fastest time of the three-day test. The Brit's 1:30.117 was only marginally slower than Lewis Hamilton's best time in the new Mercedes W12. Russell reckons Williams could have gone even quicker, but the highly-sensitive car fell foul of the wind. 'The positives are that when the wind is in a favourable direction, the car is very fast,' Russell told The Race. 'We talk about this yaw sensitivity, so the yaw angles get very high...
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