Insightful interview, she asked all the right questions and is obviously very knowledgeable about the sport..and seems like Williams is in good hands with Vowles leading the way.
Remember when Brawn & Byrne went to Ferrari in the mid 90s? James at Williams is eerily too familiar in that respect. JV will bring Williams back to championship material sometime after 2026.
He took me from being a team agnostic F1 fan of 20+ years to a fully onboard Willliams fan. I happen to like Alex, but James made me a fan of the team.
The American market is so important that we a British team is going to launch in America but not important enough for us to support the inclusion of Andretti. What a financially convenient window for Formula 1 to be in.
Williams has american major owner so launching their livery in the US makes sense. It s not Andretti that F1 don t want, it s a 11. th team. F1 policy kinda makes sense even if many doesn t like it, quality over quantity. Buy teams that are at the bottom rather adding a new one. Audi got pass because they bought Sauber, an existing team.
@@gamunu.b It's not crying it's pointing out hypocricy. The crying was the F1 gatekeepers when they lobbied to keep a better funded, better organized operation out of the sport.
@@mgers75 What has Andretti won as an Organisation??? Not a Tittle Contender in IndyCar since 2012..... Why are people going on like its Penske or CGR that have been denied??? If you listen to JV he explains why Williams didnt back the new Bid as JV is responsible for 900 employee's..... Also where the factory when are they gonna build a car and is it gonna work or will it be another MasterCard Lola story...... Andretti aren't the biggest US team and they haven't got a operation that has proved that it can compete in F1.....
it's not the team's responsibility to care about other team's entering the sport for the overall betterment. That's up to the FIA and FOM. The teams operate to be as profitable and sustainable as possible for themselves and their stakeholders. If anything blame FOM for even allowing the teams any input on the matter.
Mercedes is the new McLaren/Williams. Gone are the days that they where fighting for championships. Toto Wolff needs to step up and they need a rebuild.
@@michaelsullivan3581 go to those teams and be the under 2 whats the point Max Hamilton and GR are number one drivers. why go and become a Bottass to those teams!
The Christian Horner questions were pretty much gutter journalism. It’s currently just an allegation, how can you possibly expect the team principal of another team to answer those questions. 🙄
To make the teams stable they should be less races and smaller cars. Less races mean teams don't have to spend as much money to go around the world and smaller cars will cost less to build and put all the America races together the rest of the races put them in order so it's cheaper to keep flying around the world. And we need more teams because Mercedes, Ferrari, Redbull, Aston Martin, Williams and more teams have got Academy drivers so we need more teams to put them in does the top teams are not using the Talent in the young drivers spending all this money for no reason
If james vowles believe in young Talent how come he is one of the people what's holding them back cos he did not want some more teams into the sport so here's one of the people what is going to kill the sport because james did not 11 team in because he's not good for the sport. But his old team Mercedes entered Formula E for 2 years and then left so what did Mercedes do for that Sport
He doesn’t want 11 teams unless the sport gets more funding as teams are loss making and another team would dilute the limited funding even more. He clearly said he is all for another team if the funding is made bigger
He has already said he doesn’t mind having 11 teams but to make that viable the sport needs to bring in more sponsorship and essentially more money as if you split the amount currently available to the sport between another team it will become unviable financially for some teams
These people are dragging the Williams name through the mud. The car looks like shit. The management in this team is a joke, and most of the time the drivers aren’t even capable of finishing the car without destroying the fucking thing.
Racing at this level takes a certain amount of aggression and from what I’ve seen females don’t have it it’s not sexist it’s just an observation, and it may be fact
James Vowles has truly made/is making Williams exciting to watch again. Dig him, what a guy
Insightful interview, she asked all the right questions and is obviously very knowledgeable about the sport..and seems like Williams is in good hands with Vowles leading the way.
Yes, she is well prepared, and beautiful too!
If I was Alex, I would stay with Williams.
Biggest loss to Merc after Lewis
Excellent comment. Do you see him one day returning when Toto leaves?
Very true! In a lot of ways, JV was the real future of that team.
@@brettjamison92 not if Williams is on the rise & Merc going the other way
Fantastic questions..fantastic answers!
JV is a massive asset for Williams f1
And for F1!
Remember when Brawn & Byrne went to Ferrari in the mid 90s? James at Williams is eerily too familiar in that respect. JV will bring Williams back to championship material sometime after 2026.
but unfortunately they depend on mercedes to nail the new engine regulations for 2026.
Excellent interview and interviewer, so much better than most of the interviewers we see in F1, 👍🇦🇺🇬🇧
Those stools would be hell on your back. They cant be remotely comfortable.
Good luck James for 2024 I would love see you guys winning like the 90’s
Haas is not a true representation of what this country can produce in F1. Andretti can get us there, Haas can't.
Haas... won't. Chooses not to.
Who’s the interviewer? She’s good
It's my GOAT, James Vowles (Mr 'Direction of Travel'). Man, this guy is brilliant!!!!
He took me from being a team agnostic F1 fan of 20+ years to a fully onboard Willliams fan. I happen to like Alex, but James made me a fan of the team.
Stand up guy, excellent interview
Not a standup guy
The American market is so important that we a British team is going to launch in America but not important enough for us to support the inclusion of Andretti. What a financially convenient window for Formula 1 to be in.
Williams has american major owner so launching their livery in the US makes sense. It s not Andretti that F1 don t want, it s a 11. th team. F1 policy kinda makes sense even if many doesn t like it, quality over quantity. Buy teams that are at the bottom rather adding a new one. Audi got pass because they bought Sauber, an existing team.
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@@gamunu.b It's not crying it's pointing out hypocricy. The crying was the F1 gatekeepers when they lobbied to keep a better funded, better organized operation out of the sport.
@@mgers75 What has Andretti won as an Organisation??? Not a Tittle Contender in IndyCar since 2012..... Why are people going on like its Penske or CGR that have been denied??? If you listen to JV he explains why Williams didnt back the new Bid as JV is responsible for 900 employee's..... Also where the factory when are they gonna build a car and is it gonna work or will it be another MasterCard Lola story...... Andretti aren't the biggest US team and they haven't got a operation that has proved that it can compete in F1.....
it's not the team's responsibility to care about other team's entering the sport for the overall betterment. That's up to the FIA and FOM. The teams operate to be as profitable and sustainable as possible for themselves and their stakeholders.
If anything blame FOM for even allowing the teams any input on the matter.
Awesome mentality and vision for William. Thank you for sharing.
Great interview and great answers from James. So put together
This guy is one to watch as an F1 TP
Kimi Antonelli is already being talked about as an F1 racer but he still hasn't raced in F2. I think all this talk about him is premature.
Mercedes is the new McLaren/Williams. Gone are the days that they where fighting for championships. Toto Wolff needs to step up and they need a rebuild.
Five years? I don't think Alex will wait that long.
The curve to success will have to be enormous. Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull are all courting him!
@@michaelsullivan3581 go to those teams and be the under 2 whats the point Max Hamilton and GR are number one drivers. why go and become a Bottass to those teams!
“ not financially stable” considering you guys can’t even put two cars on the grid. I’d have to say that’s an understatement.
Love this team and their history. Frank Williams was a masterclass.
Hamilton said Merc engineers are lagging
And don’t even get me going on track limits, ladies, do not supposed to cross the white line😂
Why is "room full of 40 something white men" portrayed as something bad?
The Christian Horner questions were pretty much gutter journalism. It’s currently just an allegation, how can you possibly expect the team principal of another team to answer those questions. 🙄
To make the teams stable they should be less races and smaller cars.
Less races mean teams don't have to spend as much money to go around the world and smaller cars will cost less to build and put all the America races together the rest of the races put them in order so it's cheaper to keep flying around the world.
And we need more teams because Mercedes, Ferrari, Redbull, Aston Martin, Williams and more teams have got Academy drivers so we need more teams to put them in does the top teams are not using the Talent in the young drivers spending all this money for no reason
If james vowles believe in young Talent how come he is one of the people what's holding them back cos he did not want some more teams into the sport so here's one of the people what is going to kill the sport because james did not 11 team in because he's not good for the sport. But his old team Mercedes entered Formula E for 2 years and then left so what did Mercedes do for that Sport
He doesn’t want 11 teams unless the sport gets more funding as teams are loss making and another team would dilute the limited funding even more. He clearly said he is all for another team if the funding is made bigger
Loudest voice in keeping Andretti out of the sport. He doesn’t like racing as much as he likes his “club“. 👎
He has already said he doesn’t mind having 11 teams but to make that viable the sport needs to bring in more sponsorship and essentially more money as if you split the amount currently available to the sport between another team it will become unviable financially for some teams
That 12 lap female race felt like I was watching F1 under a yellow flag 😂
These people are dragging the Williams name through the mud. The car looks like shit. The management in this team is a joke, and most of the time the drivers aren’t even capable of finishing the car without destroying the fucking thing.
Yesterday was the first time I ever watched F1 Academy, female racing. It was a 12 lap snooze fest.
Racing at this level takes a certain amount of aggression and from what I’ve seen females don’t have it it’s not sexist it’s just an observation, and it may be fact
Diversity just for the sake of diversity has destroyed a great many things