Pat Symonds
Pat Symonds
Patrick Bruce Reith "Pat" Symondsis a British motor racing engineer. He is currently the Chief Technical Officer at Williams Grand Prix Engineering, having previously worked at the Benetton, Renault and Virgin Formula One teams...
insurance season sets small wasteful
If you feel that you can get through a season with 10 sets of parts, but you make 20 just in case, that's wasteful - but if you make 12, that's a small insurance policy.
drove eventually excellent fact lost race
He lost some 50 horsepower and in fact drove a really excellent race, but he was eventually halted by an hydraulic leak.
coming fortnight hard improve next performance position strong team test three
The team is in a very strong position now after three races, but there are still 15 to go. We have some important test sessions coming up in the next fortnight and we are still working hard to improve the performance of the car.
headline less people produced rather relevance running short tend
Certainly, the headline times produced at the end of every day probably have less relevance than anything else. We tend to concentrate more on the long-distance running people do, rather than the short runs.
cars friday session third
Were it not for the third cars, the Friday session would just be dire.