Russell will start the Singapore race from fourth, right behind his team mate
George Russell has praised his Mercedes Formula 1 team for recovering from what he called our “worst Friday in probably three years.”
Russell and team mate Lewis Hamilton both struggled on the first day of running in Singapore, with the latter admitting that the team was lost, and suggesting that Q3 would be a struggle.
However overnight work both in Singapore and back at the Brackley factory produced set-up changes that worked in FP3, a session that saw Russell as high as second.
In qualifying Hamilton earned third spot, with Russell right behind him in fourth, with only Lando Norris and Max Verstappen up ahead.
Mercedes posted a picture of reserve driver Frederik Vesti and members of the Brackley sim team, thanking them for their “huge shift.”
Russell made it clear that the changes that they tried had worked on the real cars.
“Absolutely, an incredible turnaround from yesterday,” he said when asked by this writer if it was one of the best recoveries that the team has made.
“It was without doubt our worst Friday in probably three years. And this morning I was second, comfortably ahead of everyone bar Lando and the car was, night and day difference. So credit to all the team for the work we did.”
Regarding the contribution of Vesti and his colleagues he said: “Immense, immense. It’s not only the people on the sim, but it’s the people going through the data, all through the night. The engineers even here, through the night, literally as well. So, yeah, great turnaround.
“It was just we were totally in the wrong window with the setup. We were trying some things yesterday, maybe not the right place to do it. And, yeah, clearly we turned around.”
Russel had a couple of escape road moments as he pushed the limits in FP3.
“I had good confidence,” he said. “I was just seeing if there was anything more in the tank. There wasn’t. Before the session, I was hoping for a bit more, but after Q1 and Q2 very happy to salvage a P4.”
Russell will start Sunday’s race immediately ahead of Oscar Piastri: “He’s going be the main threat from behind. I hope that Lewis and I can take a fight to Max. But realistically, if Lando is leading after lap one, he’ll win the race comfortably.”
McLaren’s low drag wing was seen to move on the straights in Baku
McLaren has agreed with the FIA to change the controversial flexing rear wing of the MCL38 – and has urged the governing body to talk to other teams about what they are doing.
McLaren has been talking to the FIA about the wing for a while, but those conversations ramped off after videos from Baku showing the movement of the wing appeared on social media.
The wing concerned is the low drag version used at Spa, Monza and Baku, and does not affect this weekend’s Singapore GP. It won’t be used again until Las Vegas.
In response to the changes McLaren said: “Whilst our Baku rear wing complies with the regulations and passes all FIA deflection tests, McLaren have proactively offered to make some minor adjustments to the wing following our conversations with the FIA.
“We would also expect the FIA to have similar conversations with other teams in relation to the compliance of their rear wings.”
Speaking earlier and before the need for a change became public McLaren chief designer Rob Marshall insisted that there was no issue with the wing.
“It’s very flattering,” he said of complaints from rival teams. “Obviously, the nearer the front you are, the more scrutiny you come under. But I mean, all teams scrutinise their own cars as well as other people’s.
“We scrutinise our car. We work with the FIA to understand the grey areas of whatever element of the car it is, and move forward accordingly really.
“I guess they’ve all got their opinions. We work with FIA to establish the legality of our cars. As long as the FIA happy, that’s the only opinion we need to worry about.
Asked if McLaren had simply exploited the rules better than others he said: “”I wouldn’t say they’re exploiting it less than McLaren. I wouldn’t say McLaren is exploiting it.
“I would say that everyone’s approaching their wing design the way they think. Obviously, everyone for whatever reason is talking about ours at the moment. But everyone can see everyone else’s, and I don’t think we’re the only people under scrutiny.”
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur made it clear that he wasn’t happy with the McLaren wing.
“I think there is a kind of confusion between what’s happened with the front wing and the rear wing,” he said. “The front wing, we all agree that it could be a grey area because in the TD the first paragraph of the TD is saying that you can’t design part of the car with the intention of deformation. Intention is difficult to manage.
“The rear wing story, it’s completely different, because in the article, you have also a maximum deflection. And this is black or white. It’s not no grey, no dark grey, no light grey. It’s black and black. But for me, it’s clear.”
Vasseur admitted that Ferrari has been looking at video evidence.
“So far, we had a look on the previous events, and it was only on the lowdown force tracks,” he said. “I’m not sure that they could, or they want to use the same trick in Singapore, or in Zandvoort, for example.
“But again, we have to give the responsibility to the scrutineering, to the FIA, it’s not my job to do it. I’m not complaining about this. I think it’s more than borderline.
“We all saw the video and the picture of this, and it’s a bit frustrating when, if you remember perfectly the situation in Monza, we had five cars in two-hundredths of a second, and you move from P1/P2 to P5/P6 for two-hundredths of a second in Baku, and we arrived 10 laps in a row, side-by-side in Turn 1. You can imagine that we have a bit of frustration.”
Fernando Alonso says that scoring points in the Singapore GP “will be a miracle” for his Aston Martin Formula 1 team.
Alonso still believes that the Silverstone outfit has only the seventh fastest car at the moment, with Haas and Williams having joined the top four in front.
Despite that he managed to finish sixth in Baku last weekend, having been running in eighth until the late Sainz/Perez crash.
Alonso says that the Azerbaijan result gave the team some motivation after a difficult season.
“I hope so, why not?,” he said when asked by this writer if Baku was a guide to this weekend’s form.
“I think the tracks are very different, but in a way both street circuits, no room to make a mistake, again the walls will be the limitation here.
“It’s probably the most demanding race physically of the championship. So to keep the level of focus very high throughout the race, and to start the weekend on the right foot, is quite important to start on Friday with a car that gives you the confidence to attack, and you can accumulate laps.
“It will just be beneficial for Saturday and Sunday. I’m quite optimistic after Baku. I think it was a boost of motivation for everyone. So I’m looking forward to jump in the car.”
However he cautioned that it won’t be easy to make Q3 or finish in the points.
“Well, as I said, we are seventh team, so our natural position is 13th, 14th, 15th,” he said. “If we were eighth in Baku, it was a miracle, if we were 10th in Monza, it was a miracle. If we are here in the points, it will be a miracle.
“I don’t think that the car at the moment is at the place where we want to have it. That’s why we keep working on the setup on Fridays, even though it’s not a setup issue, and we are waiting for new parts when they come.
“So we are not giving up. We are doing our best on the weekends. But every weekend, we cannot be with unrealistic hope, just because of the circuit, just because it may rain, just because… We need to be realistic and accept our position.”
Aston experimented with floor options in practice in Baku, before settling on an older version.
Asked if he wanted to carry on with what worked last weekend Alonso said the team would continue to try different things.
“Yes and no,” he said. £I think at the same time, you still want to experiment a little bit in FP1 in terms of setups, even if we were happier with the car in Baku than the last few events, we still want more. And Baku was not enough.
“The result was good, but we are still with our calculations the seventh team in terms of performance. And we are not happy there. So we still need to find more pace. And I know the team has more ideas for Friday FP1, and yeah, I’m willing to test those.”
Sauber has failed to score a point thus far in 2024
Sauber team representative Alessandro Alunni Bravi admits that the Swiss outfit will struggle to dig itself out of P10 in the World Championship and that the situation is now “semi-critical.”
The future Audi team heads into the Singapore GP yet to score a point this season, while the entrant immediately ahead – Alpine – has 13.
The C45 has regularly been the slowest car on the grid in recent races, and the most recent upgrade package hasn’t made much difference relative to the opposition.
“We are targeting to introduce some developments in the next part of the season, and we will try to anticipate as much as possible,” Alunni Bravi told me.
“We know that for these two races, we can just optimise the package. But of course we need to bring upgrades if we want to do a step.
“The situation in the constructors’ championship for us now is becoming semi-critical, and the possibilities to not finish the championship in P10 are very limited. And of course, if we want to score points, we need to do a big step now.”
Asked if he was concerned about the team not scoring points at all this season Alunni Bravi stressed that the focus was more on the performance of the car.
“I’m not concerned about not scoring points,” he said. “We are concerned to not be able to develop the car and to see a progression this season. Because we know that to have a strong package also next year, we need to improve our performance this year.
“Of course, we have seen developments this year that are a positive, but then our competitors, for the moment, did a better job, and they were able to find more pace also during the season.
“So it’s not a matter of points. The matter is that if we want to become more competitive next year. We need to see progression also this year.
“So the developments that we will bring in the end of the season will be an important sign of the trend that we will have.”
Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas finished 14th and 16th in Baku, and Alunni Bravi was at least able to draw some positives from the Chinese driver’s performance.
“It’s clear that we struggle to have overall pace a car in qualifying and the race,” he said. “With Valtteri unfortunately we struggled with medium tyres from the very beginning. It was a combination of high fuel and the green track. And were following Tsunoda, and we were unable to overtake him.
“And all these factors, of course, are against our car. It doesn’t suit this kind of conditions. So the pace was not good with Valtteri. The balance of the car was much better on hard than on medium. But we were not in the position to fight for positions close to the points.
“On the positive side, Zhou made a step compared to the previous races, also compared to Friday and Saturday. He was managing the tyres really well at the beginning.
“He was very good, consistent, and he was fighting during all the race, defending, attacking. I’ve seen the Zhou that we want to see, but we know we have a lack of pace.
“This is our main limitation, because in terms of execution, pit stops, I think we were good. But this is now the picture.”
Stella suggests that nothing is set in stone on team orders…
McLaren Formula 1 boss Andrea Stella says that the team will continue to review what he calls the “principles” of how team orders might be deployed,
Ahead of the Azerbaijan GP Stella confirmed that priority would be given to Lando Norris in the World Championship battle, and that Oscar Piastri would help if asked.
However a poor qualifying position for Norris left Piastri to win in Baku, and in an unusual twist Norris played his part by holding up Sergio Perez after the Mexican pitted, thus ensuring that his team mate stayed ahead of the Red Bull driver.
“I said already that we have two number one drivers effectively, and having two number one drivers means that we approach things first of all in the interest of the team,” said Stella after the Baku race.
“The interest of the team is to win the constructors’ championship, and yes, is to win also the drivers’ championship.
“Lando was in the most favourable position before this race. I think he still is in the most favourable position. So more naturally, we would have supported Lando.
“But I think we have evidence today that actually, interestingly, it was Lando supporting Oscar and enabling Oscar’s victory, thanks to driving for the team, and driving to support his teammate.
“So I think that remains our approach. We always intended to review after every event, with each driver, with the drivers together, what was going to be the best approach for the next races. We will do it, and set the plan for Singapore.”
Stella indicated that the team has to remain flexible and deal with each race situation as it arises.
“I think we lead this by principles, which is slightly different than rules,” he said. “I think with the principles, you leave yourself a space to assess every situation. But you have your guiding beacons as to what you judge is right.
“When you define rules, they become quite defining. And then you have to go through a thousand cases and see, like, what is the rule here?
“I think what’s important for me is that we did have a good conversation after Monza, because the three of us, Lando, myself and Oscar, we all agreed that entering a chicane in P1, P2 and exiting P1, P3 is just not acceptable, because it is infringing our first principle, which is the team’s interest comes first, if that makes sense.
“So we definitely tightened up in our conversations in relation to these kinds of situations. We knew that if any of the two drivers needed assistance, we would give it.
“And like I said before, it’s interesting that now it was the time for Lando to help Oscar. We will now review this race, and we will talk to the drivers, and we will define and tune the plan as we go onto the next races.”
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says the fallout from Sergio Perez’s late crash in the Azerbaijan GP was “like an avalanche” as it also impacted Max Verstappen’s title hopes.
Perez was in contention for a podium when he was involved in a collision with Carlos Sainz that left both cars badly damaged.
The loss of those constructors’ points as well as a two-place bonus for Lando Norris handed the World Championship lead to McLaren.
However the VSC ending to the race also cost Verstappen a shot at the fastest lap bonus point after the Dutchman made a late stop for fresh tyres.
It went instead to Norris, helping him to gain three points on Verstappen in the drivers’ championship.
“I think Sainz made quite an aggressive move,” Marko told me after the race. “It was unnecessary two laps from the end. A lot of damage, we lost a lot of points in the constructors’.
“With the fastest lap we would have lost only one point [to Norris], not three. It was like an avalanche.”
Asked if winning the constructors’ title was now looking difficult he said: “Without the crash damage it wouldn’t have been so bad. But it’s also for all the employees – they all are on a bonus on the constructors’, not on the driver’s championship.”
On the plus side the RB20 performed much better after a revised floor was fast-tracked for Baku, and it was a set-up change that made life difficult for Verstappen.
“You saw it on Checo,” said Marko. “Checo could follow the whole race between one and three seconds. So that’s a positive thing.
“Max was following for two laps, the brakes were overheating, the tyres started graining.
“And that’s the negative thing, that the car is still so on the edge if you do the wrong setup. I mean, it was not dramatically different, but it’s different.
“But nobody thought that the reaction would be like that. I mean, all this jumping, and he couldn’t brake.”
Marko remains positive that the team can have a strong race in Singapore, although a lot of parts were lost in the Perez accident and that could compromise the weekend.
“There’s no need to panic,” he said. “But Checo’s car is heavily damaged, so we will have problems with the parts we have, and the right setup.
“I think it’s now more to make a car for Checo so he can race. So the real potential we will see in Austin.”
Interesting insight on team orders from Christian Horner…
Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner says that Oscar Piastri’s strong form is “causing headaches” for McLaren as the Woking team attempts to win the drivers’ championship with Lando Norris.
McLaren confirmed before the Azerbaijan GP that where possible Piastri would henceforth support Norris’s title bid, although there was a significant grey area in that Norris said he didn’t want his team mate to give up a race win.
Any team orders became irrelevant in Baku where Piastri won the race and Norris recovered to fourth from a poor grid position.
Piastri now has 222 points to the 254 of Norris, and is thus still mathematically in the fight in his own right, albeit 91 shy of leader Max Verstappen.
“Usually they are things that are dealt with behind closed doors,” said Horner when asked about McLaren’s team orders situation. “So I’m not actually sure what those rules are. There still seems some confusion.
“Every team is different. Our rules of engagement are very clear, and what the focus to end of the year is.
“We’ve got a driver that’s fighting for a World Championship. It’s a team sport. So it’s very clear that Checo’s job is there to support Max the end of the year.”
He added: “Different teams operate different ways. When you’ve got an asset like Max Verstappen, you don’t make him a number two driver.
“They’re paying [Norris] five times what they pay Oscar, so I would assume that he would be their number one driver, or their biggest asset.
“So therefore, the confusion comes when you’re not upfront from the beginning of what your plans are.”
Asked if McLaren should consider Norris a clear number Horner made some intriguing observations not just about Red Bull’s rivals, but about his own team’s history.
“I think the other one is causing them headaches, because he’s winning races, and he’s doing a very good job.
“So it was like when Daniel Ricciardo came to us [in 2014], he was clearly supposed to be the number two to Sebastian Vettel, and he won three races that year to Sebastian’s none.
“Sometimes it causes you a headache like that. For sure, they took Oscar with the expectation, as Mercedes did with probably George, and Ferrari did with Carlos, that you’ve got a prime asset, and a support asset.
“And of course, when the second driver starts outperforming the first driver, that’s when you tend to have a have a headache.”
Horner suggested that having two top drivers is not easy.
“It becomes a very difficult problem to manage,” he said. “Because you split the team, and the rules of engagement become very, very difficult.
“Everybody knows probably who the number one and number two is, but if you’re not up front with the drivers, you end up with confusion.
“So I think going into a race, into any race, and obviously at the beginning of the season, it’s all open. But certainly when you get around the halfway point, you’ve got to pick a horse. Especially if you’re in a championship battle.”
Piastri’s pass was key to a fantastic victory in Baku
McLaren Formula 1 boss Andrea Stella admits that he thought Oscar Piastri’s crucial passing move on Charles Leclerc would “go wrong”.
He adds that the fact the move succeeded was another demonstration of the Australian’s talent and ability to surprise even his own team.
Piastri slipped past Leclerc at Turn 1 at the start of lap 20, and stayed in the lead for the remainder of the race, while successfully fending off the Ferrari driver.
“I think Oscar just took advantage that his hard tyres were in a really sweet spot when Leclerc pitted ahead of him,” said Stella. “And he just seemed to have an edge to be able to attack him in corner one.
“But if you look where Oscar is coming from, where he attacks Leclerc, in corner one, that’s from quite a far, and still he negotiates the apex in corner one.
“So I think it’s one of those cases in which you have to point out the ability of the driver, because he delays the braking point so much, and still negotiates corner one in such a precise way.
“He doesn’t even have to rely on Leclerc conceding any space. So it’s one of those cases in which just, I think the talent, the precision in the execution, from Oscar’s point of view, just made a difference.”
Stella admitted that his first thought was the move would not work.
“When I watched it live, and I saw him going, my instinct said, like, it’s going to go wrong, because the delay in the braking point was kind of like, if Leclerc braked there, that must be the braking point, and he’s delaying.
“So my instinct was, it’s going to go wrong. But that’s why I wanted to emphasise in my answer before, just the precision in the execution to then actually be on the inside apex kerb in corner one.
“So yeah, I was surprised, but Oscar is always surprising us with his talent, with his ability, and I would say today he gave also a demonstration of his mental strength.
“He drove like a driver that has a lot of experience, that has been under this kind of pressure before, that can move with one eye at the mirror, with the other eye of where is the braking point?
“And Oscar did it again with a great level of precision, and pretty controlled. Even when he was talking on the radio he seemed very much under control. So a phenomenal driver, brilliant drive today.”
On several occasions Piastri successfully defended from Leclerc at the first corner while also being able to get out of it with enough speed to move left and block him into Turn 2.
Asked if the characteristics of the car helped Stella said: “I think it’s a combination, 90% is Oscar, I think, his judgment.
“The most difficult one will have been the first one, because when you do the first one of these kind of manoeuvres, actually you don’t have references. I think after the first one, he will have found some references.
“And therefore, I think later on, it became easier for him. But when you do it the first time, you really have to judge things very precisely, not to be under attack braking for corner three with the next DRS zone, or for corner two.
“I think where the 10% of the car comes to us came to Oscar’s advantage is that the car is good traction. I think we know that our rear end is good, especially when we are around 100kph or more, which is where you are in corner one.
“And I think this is definitely something that Oscar did exploit, but it wouldn’t work without this precision from a driving point of view.”
Norris recovered to fourth after his qualifying disaster
Lando Norris says his charge to fourth place in Azerbaijan was a much better result than anticipated, but the McLaren star was still left frustrated by the “unfair” yellow flag that saw him stranded in 17th in qualifying.
Norris has to back off and abort his final lap in Q1 after a yellow flag was briefly displayed as Esteban Ocon toured back to the pits after clipping the wall.
He then gained two places on the final grid after Pierre Gasly was disqualified and Lewis Hamilton demoted to a pitlane start.
A long opening stint on the hard tyres moved him up the order from his initial 15th, and despite losing time behind fellow hard tyre starter Alex Albon he was able to pass Max Verstappen on the road for sixth.
The Perez/Sainz crashed gifted him two places in the closing laps, although title rival Verstappen also benefited.
Meanwhile his team mate Oscar Piastri won the race, showing just how competitive the car was in Baku.
“I don’t think we could have asked for a lot more today,” said Norris. “A good start, good strategy. I would have loved to have got past Alex a bit earlier. He made my life tough. But I couldn’t pass.
“So I don’t think I could have asked for a lot more. It’s definitely better than we were all expecting before today.
“So yeah, fourth was a great result. To be ahead of Max, just on merit and from pace and strategy, again, was a good result. So I mean, the car was flying. Because it was so good, it almost made me more annoyed about yesterday, and how silly that yellow flag was.”
Asked for his view on the qualifying flag incident he said: “No, it wasn’t fair. You don’t have to be a scientist to work it out. I don’t know. This is not for me to decide. It’s not for me to say it was unfair, and for it to ruin my whole weekend. I know I got a fourth today, and that’s not bad, but it could have been better.
“And I think Oscar showed what was possible today. So it was unfair. There was no yellow the whole lap, and he put a yellow out just as I come past, did I go off the track just before it. Yes? Would I still easily have got into the top 15? Yes. So I know there’s a lot of people that thought that that ruined my lap.
“I was still easily in, even with my off-track, I only lost like, a couple tenths, and I still easily would have been in. So yeah, people can say what they want, and I find a lot of it funny.
“But this was out of my control, and it was something that was unfair, and cost me a good amount of points in the championship today, and kind of ruined my weekend.
“So it’s disappointing, especially because of how good the car was today. Like I said, I’m the guy that’s thinking of what could have been, not how we did today, necessarily, but I’m very happy with today still.”
Norris said that team simulations put him in eighth place at the end behind the cars from the top four teams, although Hamilton’s pitlane start gifted him one spot.
“We would have been happy with eighth,” he said. “We just expected the top four teams to go, obviously me being eighth car. So we expected them to go and beat everyone else, but I got into 10th, I think quite quickly, I was in 10th already, I think five, six laps into the race.
“I had a good start, good opening lap, even on the hard tyre, and everyone else on the medium. So that’s a good kickstart to the whole day. And then I got behind Alex.
“I couldn’t do a lot. Carlos got past. I fought Max for a little bit, and Max just getting stuck behind me for a few laps, and overheated his tyres, and I could race against him.
“And Alex boxed. And then this made my race. As soon as Alex boxed, my pace was, I think, the best on track, even on the hards from the beginning of the race, and I managed to create a good gap and just unlock all the potential that the car had.
“So, yeah, eighth was our target, but we knew doing a hard start, and if things went well, better was possible. But it’s hard to anticipate and know what that was going to be.”
Norris admitted that he didn’t expect to be able to pass Verstappen on the road.
“A little bit surprised,” he said. “I mean, when you start 15th I didn’t really expect to beat him, especially because they were boxed and were behind me. So I was about 20-22 seconds behind on real terms where they were.
“So I played the game well. I couldn’t defend against Carlos, but I could defend against Max. But the main point was I defended against Checo, and just allowed him to not get ahead of Oscar.
“And then that pretty much allowed Oscar to go and get a win. So I did my small part for the team, which I’m very happy for, because it got us to P1 in the constructors’. And that’s really the thing that makes me happiest.”
Colapinto was hugely impressive in Baku qualifying
Franco Colapinto says that his crash in FP1 in Baku had a positive outcome as the Williams Formula 1 crew gave him a “big confidence boost” and “energy” after repairing his FW46.
Colapinto had a heavy impact with the wall on Friday as he undertook his first ever laps of a track that was new to him.
Such a crash could have seen him taking a more subdued approach to the rest of the weekend, but in fact it had the opposite affect for a man who has impressed the team with his glass half full attitude.
The car was repaired in time for FP2, and the rookie repaid the team with a sensational qualifying session that saw him eighth, sixth and ninth across the three sessions. He starts one place ahead of team mate Alex Albon.
“Yeah, it was difficult,” he said when asked by the writer about the setback of the early crash.
“But more difficult it was going to be if I couldn’t do FP2. And luckily, the boys in the garage did an amazing job to put the car back out. They didn’t even have lunch, but they were working flat out to put my car out in FP2.
“And after they did that, they gave me a big confidence boost and a lot of energy to try and achieve a good result for them, for the effort that they have been doing this year, and it was nice today to give them back a little bit of what they gave me.
“So very happy about it. Of course, it’s still a long way to go, but it’s always important moment for you to be in Q3. And I did very good laps, every lap was on it.”
Remarkably for his second ever f1 start Colapinto will line up on the grid directly behind World Champions Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, and Fernando Alonso.
“Looking forward to tomorrow,” he said. “I think I’m going to have to practice a few stars to have it a better launch than them! Luckily it is a short straight until Turn 1.
“But I am very excited, it’s an amazing moment, my first Q3, and I am very happy about it, to be honest.
“It’s a moment every driver dreams of, and I achieved it in my second weekend in F1 so I can’t be any more happy.
“It was a very good session. I think we put the laps in, every time I had to go out, we did a very good job as a team. Of course, I would have been good to finish in front of the Aston [of Alonso], maybe, but we did a little step on the setup to see what we can do.
“If it will be in a little bit, a little bit more for the last run on the new tyres, but it didn’t really work out, the rears, they didn’t stay alive for the whole lap. But I think the team did an amazing job to put the two cars in Q3. three.
“It’s a very important moment for Williams. It’s, for me, a dream come true after yesterday’s contact with the wall it was going to be tough, but I think we did very good comeback.”
Colapinto acknowledged that the Azerbaijan GP is rarely uneventful.
“This race is always a drama,” he said. “So let’s see how it is tomorrow. It’s my first race here, first time I’ve been in Baku. So everything is going very quick. I don’t know either the next six races.
“It’s going to be a challenge, at the end of the year. But I am up to the challenge, and I am very happy to be here, and, of course, extremely grateful Williams for this opportunity.”
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