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Williams updates key to qualifying pace and podium goal – Smedley
Williams vehicle performance chief Rob Smedley says that aerodynamic upgrades definitely helped attain its first front-row grid spot of the season in qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix. Although Valtteri Bottas was only third quickest in qualifying, Sebastian Vettel's five-place grid penalty promotes him to the front row for Sunday's race in Sochi. Smedley said that this was a track the team had targeted to go well at, and that the circumstances of issues for Vettel and Lewis Hamilton played into its hands. "We thought that this was a track that would suit us," said Smedley. "With the bits and pieces we brought here – the new front wing and new nose, which we've been...
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