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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Giles Richards

Williams’ James Vowles ‘backing failure’ in bid to guide team to F1 summit

James Vowles in Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix
James Vowles believes Williams’ upsurge is due to a ‘really open, honest culture’. Photograph: Florent Gooden/DPPI/Shutterstock

Finding themselves fighting off Ferrari and mauling the midfield, these are heady times for a resurgent Williams. The team principal James Vowles has engineered an extraordinary comeback but this year’s progress is likely to be just the start for a team determined to return to the heights of Formula One, which they once dominated.

That Williams’ form has changed drastically could not have been clearer than at the Miami GP. Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz were in a fight with the Ferraris of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, the Scuderia finding themselves at one point trying to catch Albon, who took fifth place and at the same time fending off a charging Sainz.

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