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Williams hits back at pay driver claims
Claire Williams with Williams' drivers at its season launch pic: Williams F1 Twitter Claire Williams claims that there is too much cynicism surrounding ‘pay drivers’ in Formula 1 after criticism regarding her team’s line-up of Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin. Stroll and Sirotkin are believed to bring significant funding to the Williams team, with the latter backed by Russian organisation SMP Racing, which is linked to the bank of the same name. Claire Williams, the deputy team principal, argued that the situation is not dissimilar to the sponsorship which far more credentialed drivers such as two-time world champion Fernando Alonso attract to their respective teams. “It’s...
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