One of my favourite car projects was working on Lance's F3 car and helping him win the 2016 F3 Championship. F3 is an extremely tightly regulated championship which didn't have many loop holes in the rules to exploit so made it very difficult to improve car performance.
I'd just got back from Italy, was at home relaxing building a wall with Mrs Ahab and an ex-Ferrari F1 friend called me, asked me if I want to help him at Williams with a car project but he couldn't tell me what it was, of course I said yes
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Williams waited for me to finish my wall and when I rocked up on my 1st day I was shown Lance's new car in the workshop, told we only have 6 months until the 1st race, here is the tech rule book, see what weight you can take out of it and ways we can make it faster, I was a like a piggy in $hit
We helped Lance and his Italian based team Prema Powerteam (a very successful F3 team). It was a long 30 race championship and the team scored ....
22 pole positions (14 for Lance)
19 fastest laps (13 to Lance)
20 wins (14 to Lance)
Lance won with 507 points (his team mate was 2nd with 320) earning him a super license which allowed him to race for Williams in F1. At the time it was the most important project for Williams as a company
I still have twinges of guilt as with the help of his dad's millions we utterly destroyed the F3 championship which prevented a few far more talented but slightly less wealthy driver's their chance of reaching F1 by winning a talent biased championship
I don't however feel guilty about upsetting a few other billionaire dad's because their little boy's didn't win or contributing to the FIA having to rewrite the rules to keep the F3 championship alive
Personally I think Lance is good but not F1 world champion good!
Jordan Force Point Aston India Martin or whatever it's called is a team going places, exciting times for everyone there, Lance fans (I'm more a Kimi fan
), Canadian fans and F1 too