Williams to keep wing despite disastrous qualifying

Williams will persist with the rear wing that caused aerodynamic stalls in qualifying last weekend at Silverstone.

Williams brought the new rear wing in at Silverstone - however, Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin both spun out in the early stages of Q1.

Chief Technical Offier Paddy Lowe claims there is 'nothing fundamentally wrong' with the new rear wing.

Lowe says that the updated design will remain part of Williams' plans in future events.

"We put some new parts on the car and we did our normal evaluations to check we had all the stability we need on such parts," Lowe said to MotorsportWeek.

"We adopted those parts and made some other adjustments, such as cooling, (changed) what we call Friday floors to race floors, which are a little lighter, then we found this problem that was intermittent but really quite catastrophic as you saw with the cars in qualifying.

"On one car it happened on one DRS zone and on the other the other, so they were each fine on the other DRS zone so it's intermittent like that.

"It's such an extreme loss of downforce that it's not really safe, of course we could (have) considered racing without using DRS but that's not a way to compete.

"We didn't really know the exact cause so the best thing to do was to go back to a known combination of parts to run for the race which we did and had no problems in the race.

"I'm sure there is a way through this that we still need to understand, I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with this rear wing."