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Russell Positive after First Test: “I am confident that we will be racing this year”

After a day and a half of testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, George Russell is confident that Williams Racing will not just be making up the numbers this season, with the 2018 FIA Formula 2 champion saying that the FW43 is a big improvement of its predecessor from 2019. The Briton was the first driver to take to the track for the Grove-based team on Wednesday morning, completing seventy-three laps of the Spanish track and setting a best time of 1:18.168, which was over nine-tenths of a second quicker than he managed in Qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix last May. Williams missed the first test of 2019 and as a result endured their toughest year in their history, scoring only...
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