William’s boss James Vowles said his team will have two cars available again for the upcoming Suzuka race weekend.
Williams suffered a nagging problem at the start of the Australian Grand Prix programme.
Alexander Albon damaged his car in the first practice so much that it could not be repaired on the spot.
As the British team currently does not have a spare chassis available, they were forced to field a single car. Despite his mistake on Friday, Albon sat in it, to whom his colleague Logan Sargeant left the single seat.
Williams explained the decision to give Albon the Sargeant car by saying that the British-Thai racer had a better chance of scoring points, which he ultimately failed to do.
However, Williams’ troubles did not end there. The Grove stable had to ship the damaged chassis from Melbourne to its headquarters in Britain and it was unclear whether it would be able to repair it for the next race in Japan.
However, William fans have now been reassured by James Vowles, who has confirmed that a fix should be possible.
“I am confident that we will be able to repair the chassis. We have put measures in place to ensure that the damaged chassis will be back at the factory as early as Monday morning. I think it arrived around two o’clock in the morning or something like that,” Vowles said in a team video.
“I can now confirm that we are doing well and that we should have the chassis ready for Suzuka. A lot of work has already been done in Melbourne. We also used the NDT technique, which is non-destructive testing. This allowed us to understand how big the damage is and what we have to do,” explained the Williams boss.
“Thanks to that, we were able to start work already on Monday morning. So we will have two cars in Suzuka without any major problems,” added Vowles.
