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Stroll optimistic about Williams' upgrades

Stroll optimistic about Williams' upgrades

19-07-2018 15:00
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Bobby Vincent

Williams driver Lance Stroll is optimistic about his team's upgrades for the German Grand Prix will improve their performance.

Lance Stroll is positive that Williams' upgrades that will be introduced for the German Grand Prix will fix their car following their nightmare at Silverstone.

The British team couldn't perform the way they wanted in their home race at Silverstone due to their aerodynamic updates meant there was major problems and it saw Stroll and his team mate Sergey Sirotkin suffer multiple high-speed offs.

Williams' hope rely on more aerodynamic updates, with focus going on a new front wing.

"We are hoping that we see something good in the new front wing, and we definitely have to resolve what happened in Silverstone," Stroll said to Crash.net.

"They have been looking into it. Unfortunately, a very disappointing upgrade due to the difficulties we faced in Silverstone. We will discuss in detail what we are going to do and how to move forward.

"The new upgrade that we brought with the wing, and how it works with the floor, there was a sudden aerodynamic stall. We lost like 50 points of downforce, which is a huge number, as we turned into the corners. It all came from the DRS activation, so normally what should usually happen is when you activate the DRS, occasionally the rear wing and floor stall."