Leading data protection and storage company Acronis has joined Williams as a technical partner for the 2018 season. Acronis is a familiar name in the motorsport arena as the Singapore-based tech company has been a prominent partner of Toro Rosso in F1, as well of the French edams squad in Formula E. The firm's CEO, Russian Serguei Beloussov, obviously took a keen interest in the Grove-based outfit following the arrival of countryman Sergey Sirotkin, and ultimately considered a deal made sense although it was not conditional on the Russian rookie's presence. Williams chose Sirotkin on ability, insists SMP boss "For us it was totally unrelated. It had to do with the technology. That was...
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