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Williams pushes back driver announcement to January

Williams will wait until January to make announcement on the identity of Lance Stroll’s teammate for the 2018 Formula 1 season, Motorsport.com has learned.  Sergey Sirotkin is the favourite to get the drive, having fended off competition from Robert Kubica, Daniil Kvyat, Paul di Resta and Pascal Wehrlein.  Kubica was the frontrunner, but Sirotkin’s performance compared favourably to the Pole’s after they drove in the Abu Dhabi Pirelli test.  Williams has insisted throughout the process that its decision on the driver to partner Stroll will be based purely on performance.  As a result, Kubica, who was bidding to return to the grid for the first time since 2010, was informed he was...
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