Loading audio player Williams F1 team factory in England Image: Disclosure/WilliamsWilliams could have the car on the track this week for the first F1 pre-season test. At least that's what the team leader, James Vowles, assured in an interview this Wednesday (28). The Brit said he chose not to participate in this week's sessions to avoid running the risk of running out of spare parts for the next tests or even for the first race, in Australia, on March 8.In other words, Williams recognizes that there were delays when manufacturing the parts, something that has already affected the team in the recent past. And even the fact that they focused on the development of the 2026 car for the entirety of last year was not enough, because the teams always prefer, even for reasons of expense, to delay this last phase of final production of the parts as much as possible, focusing months on their aerodynamic development in the virtual world and in the wind tunnel (in which 60% of the car is scaled).We could have done the Barcelona test, simple as that. But in doing so, I would have to turn the impact on spare parts and upgrades for Bahrain, Melbourne and beyond upside down.Williams boss James Vowles!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '291767061033177'); fbq('track', 'PageView', { content_name: 'Atrasada, Williams nega que carro esteja pesado e explica ausência em teste', content_ids: [80056,12810,80789,15333,82370,82487,83158], is_closed: true, });