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Williams: We got our timing wrong

Williams Head of Performance Engineering Rob Smedley has held his hand up after things went horribly wrong for the team in qualifying at Silverstone. After the highs of Austria where Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas locked out the front row of the grid with the latter finishing P3, it was time for some lows at their home race, the British GP. Both Massa and Bottas were knocked out in Q1 as the team failed to read the weather and track right during the closing stages of the session. "We have a good car so it's very disappointing to be in 17th and 18th," Smedley said. "We were trying to mark the people on track but our timings were wrong. We didn't see the rain coming as...
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