Roy Nissany says he wants to take on a role at the Williams Formula 1 team into 2020, alongside a campaign in the Formula 2 championship.
Nissany, 25, participated in last year’s Formula 2 championship, placing 22nd, but did not race this year owing to an injury.
The Israeli took part in the post-race Abu Dhabi tyre test with Williams, making his official bow behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car, a few years after receiving a private outing for Sauber in Valencia.
Nissany completed 78 laps in the FW42 across two part-days and is optimistic of formally taking on a position at Williams next year.
“It was an opportunity which came earlier this year, after an injury that I had during 2019,” said Nissany on his Williams outing. “It was the reason I didn’t race Formula 2.
“And my management could get us the right support and got the connection to Williams allowed me this opportunity, this huge opportunity, and it was a great experience. I hope it will open my door into the Formula 1 world.
“I definitely hope [for a larger 2020 role], that’s the aim, and my management team is working hard on it and now it depends if my, I assume that if my performance, and my performance in the team was good enough and I met the expectations, hopefully, yes.”
Nissany added that he aims to be “back in Formula 2” next year and will be involved in the post-season test this week.
On his time in the FW42, Nissany said: “It took me something like three, four to five laps to be confident, to start pushing, to have the right late braking points, flat corners, fast corners in the right speed and surprisingly it was quite early, very early.
“I was happy with that. And we are already there, already in the right speed in the right place.”
Nissany’s best lap was 3.7s slower than the fastest clocked by 2020 Williams racer Nicholas Latifi.
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