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Williams confident car had podium potential
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Williams head of performance engineering Rob Smedley thinks a second consecutive podium finish was on the cards at Singapore, had Valtteri Bottas lined up higher than P7 on the grid. The British team expected to struggle at twisty and narrow Marina Bay Circuit, but the Finn still managed to salvage a strong fifth-place finish in an action-packed race. Asked whether Bottas’ result was the best Williams could have achieved, Smedley replied: “From where we started yes. But what I will say is that the car was probably good enough for a podium, had we been able to qualify better.” “I think we made great in-roads over the weekend, in terms of dragging pace out of it...
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