Williams have been forced to cope with a huge amount of damage in the early rounds of the F1 2024 season.

The tota🐻l cost to the team is in excess of $2m, according t𓂃o .

That is expenditure which must come 💟out of Williams’ budget cap.

The budget for every team is $135m in 2024.

From that money, Williams and their rivals mus🌌t pay for all parts on their cars, everything required to run the car, team personnel, garages and spare items.

But the three heavy crashes suffered acros🍌s the first four rounds of the sꦏeason will take a toll.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon’s crash in Australiaཧ was the most notable because they had no spare chassis.

Williams 💛chose to withdraw his teammate Logan Sarไgeant, and let Albon drive his car in the grand prix.

Then in Japan, Sergeant crashed in practice before Albon crashed out of the race on the first lap in an incident involving Daniel ♕Ricciardo.

The chassis from Albon’s car will be s𝔍ent back to the HQ in the UK before🌳 being shipped to China, where the fifth round of the season will be staged in two weeks’ time.

Williams only possess two chassis. The production of a spare has been delayed by thꦐe damag🎃e accrued this season.

Team principal James Vowles admitted many cruciaꦗl parts have been destroyed: “Hopefully, we can recycle some of those bits. But, no, they’re pretty much gone.”

He added about Albon’s wrecked car: “It looks like a little bit of da🍌mage again on the🌺 front-right.

“Complete coincidence, obviously.

“It looks li💃ke it’s repaira🌠ble to me. But that was through images taken,.

“The last two weeks have been tough.

“꧟I think any team to have three major accidents where you’ve pretty much taken out all𒉰 equipment on the car is enormous.

“Taking tha🐟t across a season, you can deal with it. Taking it across just a few races is difficult. The impact of it will be what you expect.

“We’re making spares as quickly as poﷺssible in the background but, ultimately, performance will have an impact on it.

“We can’t bring as many updates. The updates that were on the car unfortunately are broke♚n, so we’ve got to build those st🙈ocks back up and get going again.”