Williams Racing Team Principal James Vowles answers your questions and gives his verdict on the 2024 Australian Grand Prix, presented by Kraken.
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How dare he answer a slew of tough questions with an honest answer ! 👍
That's a great line "it's not a weekend to forget, it's a weekend to remember" you learn a lot more from mistakes
i’m sure y’all will be able to tell from the engagement on these, but just in case you can’t, the vowles verdict, the media/content team(s), and JV’s stewardship of the team in general have placed williams firmly in the heart of many fans. went from being a team i wanted to like but couldn’t really get behind to a team i’m totally invested in. this is williams, thank you for all of your efforts 👊🏼💙
How do his shoes taste? Moron
Yes, i could not agree more with this statement. As a new fan to Formula 1 I am continually amazed by the honesty and integrity James shows, especially under such immense pressure.
Love watching these "Vowles Verdict" series post-race. KEEP IT GOING! Williams
“Logan, it’s James…”
Love the honesty 😢 Two years ago I read an article where the task facing the future Williams TP (that was weeks or months before JV was announced) to operating on an open heart. I guess what we've witnessed shows just how tough the task is.
Thank you Mr Vowles ,I have always rated you very highly and the decision you made over the weekend and the Tough decision you made over the weekend and the tough conversation you must of had with Logan only reinforces my assessment that you are the right person for the job of getting Williams back to being a real competition in F1 . Congratulations
classy response to the situation all around, especially with all those brutal interviews (did you personally dishonor the kravitz family or something?!)
Ted embarrassed himself really. You could tell he’d been up all night practicing his “hard hitting journalist” questions and didn’t really care what James responded
I liked Ted years ago, but IMO he is going downhill pretty fast nowadays. It's like he thinks it is about him and not the sport and the person he interviews.
Ted Kravitz dishonored them all by himself.
Ted Kravitz is a nasty, dirty, and smelly stain on the face of F1 journalism. Don’t know why he hasn’t beein fired from SkyF1. He was a big reason I switched away from SkySportsF1 broadcasting about 2.5 years ago.
Kravitz is an idiot and Sky should replace him, preferably with someone who can finish a sentence and doesn't lurch around the place like Gollum !!
LET'S KEEP PUSHING
I know it was unfair, but factually, Alex was faster. Vowles is an incredible leader, and I have no doubt that he will keep the team strong. As for Logan, I hope he shows his worth in Japan. Also remember that in SAUDI he asked permission to pass ALex but was denied, but he can still do it.
Agreed. Well said. Why did you capitalize all of Saudi? Genuinely curious.
I sure hope you are right because the pole number hasn't been favorable in Logan's case, I'm still skeptical of him because of his last season performance.
Well said 👍🏾
There is no basis to say that Vowles is a good team principle, much less an incredible one.
Logan was a trooper for tolerating such team decision, hopefully he will be well appreciated for it.
And the team has been a trooper for giving him a seat in f1 after the year he had with all the talent on the horizon.
I hope the people at the top stick with Vowles for the long term, based on what he is doing, nothing is going to change in 2-3 years, they will reap the benefits most likely start to reap some of the benefits from the changes he's making around year 5. He sounds to have a good plan to get the team in a better scoring position, which may eventually turn into wins, but you can't do that if you keep changing who's running the team. Go Vowles!
I really like how at this point of time, the fans of Williams racing and Logan and Alex and James are all sincere fans with sincere wishes to see them move forward
I'm a big Logan fan. I think he's been handed a set of unfortunate circumstances since day one. I can only hope he takes all of the disappointments and turns them into a force to be dealt with on the track. Hopefully James and the Williams team can get things together and become more competitive with their cars. Cheering you on from America!
Actually James shouldn't let Alex takeover Logan's car for whatever reason i am still pissed of with James action
.... Crazy bias but sure. I hope he can be fast too. Fact is he's not a good F1 driver. He's only got a few more races to improve or he'll be gone next year.
@@TreborsTactics I'm not going to be negative about Logan. I'm sending him positive energy. A lot of the times it was the car, not his fault. James has admitted this many times. I think he's going to have his day once the car is ironed out.
I agree and I'm Mick Schumacher fan... I know
LS is just not F1 quality. If he was an RB driver they would have gave him the boot long ago, like they did it with de Vries. Giving the chassis to Albon is a no brainer.
Yet another example of fine leadership. These are lessons for us all. Honesty and integrity are paramount to earning trust, and it’s critical for making progress.
Williams could not of picked a better Team Principal for the team than James.
Great video but those transition noises are really loud and distracting relative to hearing James speak
James Vowles just might be one of the best leaders I’ve seen. Not just in F1, across any industry. I am slowly becoming a bigger Williams fan thanks to his leadership!
I think keeping Logan on for 2024 would have been a harder decision; than the decision they made for the Australian GP 😅
This is the bigger problem.
With Mr. Vowles future is bright for Williams. 💪🏻💪🏻
I love the radical accountability in these videos. I really, really hope Williams management doesn't pull an Alpine and sack JV before he has adequate time to improve things, because it's clear (well, clear to me, at least) he's someone who is capable of doing it.
Great video. It's great to hear from a TP with constructive straightforward answers. I have not really paid attention to Williams but this kind of video gives me a chance to see deeper into the technical challenges and makes Williams more interesting. Keep it up 👍
Mr. Vowles it trully is admirable how you are transforming WR and bringing it back. I commend you for your honesty, openness, and a mind that AGI will forever yearn for. GODSPEED.
Love these videos
Well spoken James..take note other team principals, honesty & transparency is key. Keep pushing Williams, bring back the glory days!
I've been a Williams fan for about 35 years and I can honestly say I've never seen a performance as bad and yet been so hopeful for the future, I genuinely think Vowles can take this team back to the top.
Despite a difficult weekend, I’m still rooting for you guys. Let’s keep our heads up and come back strong. I have faith that Logan will do well.
Can’t get enough of JV. Whoever has all the ideas behind what’s happening now at Williams deserves a pay rise. I think Williams are going to gain a lot of fans.
I'm starting to admire you Mr. Vowles!
Honest, handsome, brave, intelligent, all the ingredients for a perfect team pricipal 💙💙💙💙
Can't wait to see Williams back in the title hunt in a few more years!
Sargent has shown he isn't a go to guy. So I am still shocked a lot of people has questioned why they took his car away from him
James Vowles what a legend you are! Humble, honest, intelligent, inspiring and chill vibe. Who doesn’t want a boss like that? Maybe I need to get a job at Williams. 🤔 Before Williams felt like a team with its glory days behind them. Since James arrived it feels more and more everyday like Williams has new glory days ahead! 👌🏼
These are awesome
Logan has demonstrated his dedication and I think it will pay off soon. Those questioning his seat will eat their words
Logan has shown he isn't improving as a driver. This isn't a participation trophy sport
@@JanitorIsBack did you blatantly ignore the facts that James said on purpose or are you just not paying attention?
@@CringeLord0119 Exactly, haters gotta hate. Logan has been improving and catching up to Alex. It's just he was handed a bad car his rookie year. I'm with you, I think his dedication will pay off.
@@sandratracy1378well let’s critically assess that claim shall we and compare the results in the first 2 races of 2023 and 2024: 2023 Bahrain Logan’s best quali time was 0.2 sec behind Albon. In the race his finished 2 places behind. 2023 Saudi Logan didn’t set a 107% quali time because of a mechanical but finished the race 16th while Albon didn’t finish 2024 Bahrain his best quali lap was 0.4 sec slower (double what it was in 2023) and he finished 5 places behind Albon more that double the year before 2024 Saudi he was 0.6 slower in quali and finished 3 places behind Albon If anything he’s getting worse. Dismiss me as a ‘hater’ if you wish because that serves your purposes without actually providing any evidence to the contrary. I’m not a ‘hater’ I’m just stating facts.
@@sandratracy1378 To be fair he's not catching up.... the numbers don't lie. Albon's performance is probably the main reason why they are still contending for points.
James Vowles is the kind of boss who I'd run through brick walls for to achieve the goal - I'd like to think that he has the same effect on the team at Williams which is why I'm excited to see where they'll be in a few years time. If you disagree with the choice to put AA in the race instead of LS then you clearly haven't put yourself in James' shoes.
It seems to me that maximizing points requires two drivers scoring them. If anyone needs more time behind the wheel it is Logan. You chose to undermine your second driver instead and reward the driver that messed up.
A class act, as always.
James is a top tier Team Principal, thanks for giving Logan another chance this season.
It’s so great that Williams has you as its TP. Your analytical and heart felt approach to managing your team in such a difficult operating environment…. Truly brilliant. 👏 You have nothing to feel bad about your team’s status …you walked into a crap storm and have worked miracles so far. Benching Logan was your only option . I have great affection for Alex, as he has had to fight and scratch his whole career, and his being at Williams with you and your team is the best situation he has been in so far. And he has shown great skill in making good outcomes considering the team’s situation..much like George did previous. Logan is still getting up to speed with his own personal capabilities, and you took a real chance keeping him around. He should be nothing but grateful to even still be in F1, after the situations with DeVries and Lawson last year. Right decision, and he should be totally supportive of the move. No need for apologies, sorry.😉 I had met Mr. Williams in the 80’s when I was racing DTM cars in Germany for the AMG folks, and was always a fan. When his daughter was struggling to hold the team together, it was agonizing and so sad to watch. The new owners seem the have their heads on straight, and were smart to convince Toto to bring you over. I have nothing but confidence that you and your team will pull this together, and have strong positive results this year. Truly, hang in there and don’t get frustrated…you’ve got this!👍😁 Cheers!
I’m curious why they’re being so ambiguous on whether Logan gets his car back or if he’s going to get Alex’s cast-off.
I love the future for Williams.
James and Albon really bring Williams back into the conversation. Keep pushing !
Wonderful content. Please stop the flickering transitions.
Wow 2 cars!
time to build another bathtub
I so want this team to start moving up the ladder after watching these Vowles Verdict videos. I cant beleive that im barracking for a TP 😆
brought this over from Merc ...well done
James is a poet.
I can’t blame Vowles for the situation Williams are in now but I hope this starts the teams true turnaround
James, you were really irritating over the Aus weekend, but, you know what? This video = a bit of redemption. I hope, with undiluted genuineness, that you and the rest of the team have great success. By the way, I am just a F1 fan.
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A lesser leader would have shifted all the blame onto Alex. I’m pretty Gunter did that to mick on at least one occasion.
In a vacuum the decision was correct, but utterly humiliating and demoralizing 50% of your drivers with 21 races left does not seem like a good trade for the off-chance of getting a point. Especially if you expect to increase your relative pace over the season. You are essentially lessening your chance of getting points with a faster car in 21 other races, for a marginally higher chance of getting points in one race.
I don't agree, I think the whole team including the drivers aren't that "sensitive" so they won't do worse just because of this.
Sargeant isn't getting any points unless there's 10 dnf's
@@HappyAccidentx and apparently alex isn't getting points from p12 on the grid with 3 dnfs in the top ten. lmao
@@PeterTeal77 atleast he had a slight chance instead of getting lapped by lap 10 lmao
@@HappyAccidentx yeah he should be very proud to only lose two places in the car he stole after demolishing his own.
To be fair the aus grand prix association should look at the curb and runoff on T6. There's a clear lump that nearly took out alonso later in the day.
I know I'm not seeing the full picture, but from what I can see, James seems like a good leader and a good man. And Logan demonstrated so much maturity and sportsmanship in staying with the team to help as much as he could even though he had to give up his drive. We get knocked down, but we get up again!
Suzuka is where we turn it around!
i don't think it should be allowed that a driver can take his teammate's car for a weekend.
Correct decision would have been morale first ? No matter how he acts ,he will be looking to leave at any chance. Alex didn’t even go well ,he crashed and you gave him a reward.
I think this will be the same speach the rest of the season
He is ready to be MERC TP
Who gets the repaired chassis?
Wait, wait. Is this, blunt transparency?
21 races to go. Lots of opportunity for redemption.
Do like Vowles a lot but means if there’s another crash the same thing is going to happen again
We almost got the points. Let's get it next race
Poor comments are deleted ,looks like the world loves Williams
Not a position anyone would ever want to be in. He made the proper decision, imo
now update the excel
Good try guys bad luck that weekend but there’s next time and another chance to do better 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 can’t wait for Japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
James I want to say thanks for this. I love hearing from you ans I've been a fan of Williams since Nigel and a young kid named Michael
James looks like he's watching kittens being killed.
I disagree with your decision, and I'm sure others do too, but I hope that online discourse doesn't stop you and Williams from spending time on videos like this
Lol, the gap is so big he thinks of his car being "the fastest" because the top 5 are in a different league
Logan Sargeant kinda did it to himself by not beating Alex even once. I’m glad he understood and played the team game. I really want him to use this as an opportunity to step up and not just match Alex but beat him.
He managed to keep the car out of the wall in AUS, I’d say that was beating Alex.
@@maxmike181that is some low bar for ‘beating’ your teammate.
Dear Williams racing, bring your attention again. Can you please have someone read the questions out for someone with the disability? It is very difficult to follow your, videos suggest you have a look at Mercedes videos as they do this because they want to help people with disabilities with visual impairment or dyslexia to participate please please can you do the same under the disability discrimination act 2010. look forward to hearing from you.
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Great point. Accessibility is so important.
Wait, what? Alex took on car feedback from Logan? Oh god, no wonder Alex didn’t score a point
Are we to assume Logan is getting the repaired chassis?
Why isn’t having a spare tub 1st priority after fixing Albons car? How can you push through upgrades when you don’t even have your basic spare parts? Isn’t that the responsibility of the team boss? I mean I like Vowels but he’s doing worse than Claire did and she didn’t have any budget. He’s been there a year, now, just look at what Vasseur has done to Ferrari in a year, that team was a mess and is now the best organized team in F1. I’m sorry to say James isn’t making any progress, the team looks worse off , I’m still hopeful he can turn it around but at some point excuses are not enough and the team has to show improvements if you want to reach the top in 5 years.
Alex's P11 is currently placing Williams 8th in the Constructors Championship. That's worth around $1.2m in prize money..... So if you're one of the fools posting comments laughing at Alex finishing outside the points, you're just showing everyone your complete and utter lack of F1 knowledge! Alex's average finish this season is 12th. Logan's was P17, so James made the right call on which driver to race for the team. That's a fact!!! Well done James!!!
It’s not about „data“. It is about philosophy. You punished your second driver for your management failure to provide a spare for Albon and for Albons failure to keep his car unharmed. And you gained nothing, absolutely nothing.
How many top drivers had spins and offs during Friday practice and didn't plow into the barriers? yet Williams continue to make sure the capital "N" Narrative remains out in the media and fan base that they didn't get long run data because Logan also had a spin in practice on Friday resulting in flat spotting his only set of mediums. No. you didn't have long run data because one of your drivers plowed into the barrier at turn 7 Australia for the third time in his career and second time in 12 months.
Albon, let everyone down. Didn't race well.
I don’t get how this team is allowed in f1 still but Andretti isn’t 😅 fia is a joke and the bottom 4 teams should be changed with people can actually build a car
It's not just that Logan needs to prove that he deserves to be in F1, it's that the whole Williams organization needs to prove why they deserve to be in F1 at all.
Embarrassing. Why even put Logan in that chassis? Should’ve sat him another week or two until you can get him a proper car. Fking embarrassing
@3:12 I'm a huge F1 fan, but it annoys me when people use the word "tragedy"...it's a sport, not life and death. Turn on the news and get a reality check. The Baltimore bridge collapsing and killing people that have family - that is a tragedy. Finishing 11th in a race is not, and never will be a tragedy James.
maybe don't beba coward signing and then renewing Logan, now you just hurt hum for your own mistake
James is the Alex Albon of Team Principals. Get Logan an equal car and equal help and Ill bet he starts beating Alex regularly.
1st Poor Logan...
James strikes me as one of this very well spoken 'leaders' who at first glance seems really good, but doesn't deliver on the actual work such as ensuring you have a spare monocoque. The damage done by not allowing Logan to race will affect him, his engineer, his mechanics and its disheartening when you're in a team and you have a ' leader' saying all the right things but not actually being relatable with the guys doing the work.
Even the too casual clothes show why Williams are not there.
Drugovich Urgent
Decisions are judged based on results. You failed to get any points, so your decision failed. Regardless if Logan would have done any better 11-19 is essentially the same position. Time for a new TP.
All words and No play makes Vowles a dull boy.
you’d rather him be silent? can’t change what happened, you should be thankful we get this kind of access. watch a different sport
@@wife9571 in this sport the performance counts, not hollow sentences. You are still a novice to understand this.
@@Jigds dude. his job is performance. you think that doing a 10 minute video is somehow slowing the upgrade schedule or reducing performance? i’m so confused what you’re on about
@@wife9571 wifey dear, Williams is as washed as Alpine or Sauber if not more. None of their team principals are harping on rather striving on to improve and score points via some sort of a miracle in 2024.
“It’s not a weekend to forget it’s one to remember” Beautiful yet empty sounds bites to fool you. He talks well and he’s eloquent, that’s it. But he has no backbone. He claims he is the guy caring about people, and when he has the first opportunity to demonstrate that he reveals himself. His kind is the worst type of boss you want n corporate, the supportive on the surface, but backstabbing whenever he has the chance. Australia : 0 pts
You guys have to admit you lost it. We’re hearing the same stories for 3 year. What joke
10 minutes of waffling and you still didn’t get points
Hi my names James and I talk soft and quiet to make it sound like I'm smart.
was it worth the effort to comment? got the whole squad laughing man. yeah, really starting to do numbers now. oh wait, not it’s not.
@@wife9571ass kisser
@@wife9571moron
@@wife9571wtf is wrong with you. Take your meds
@@wife9571finds the channel an hour ago and thinks they're running the place now haha . Eat shit
When Alex can keep his car from hitting the wall at 180 miles an hour, he’s OK and Logan has proven he’s capable of winning championships in every single racing division he’s ever competed in.
not in F1, tell me how much he crashed livery in 2023 season??