Williams has broken Formula 1 curfew rules to change Robert Kubica’s chassi🌠s overnight at the German Grand Prix after discovering damage to the Polish driver’s car “which was not repairable at the track”.

Speaking after Friday practice, Kubica was lef⛎t frustrated by breaks to key parts on his Williams – running its upgrade package for back-to-back te꧅sts – which compromised his running.

Williams has opted to switch the Polish driver to the team’s spare chassis for the remainder🐬 of the German GP but will still use all the new parts delivered for this weekend which will also be installed on teammate George Russell’s ✨car for FP3.

“We will have to revise everything and fix some parts in order☂ they stay attached to the car, it is the second weekend in a row that something is breaking down,” Kubica said.

“When you leave the garage and already on inst𒉰allation lap [there are issues] you are compromised… it was very important for us to do our programme, whic🃏h we set up, but unfortunately we were influenced by this straight away, so not an easy day.”

It marks the second time Williams has had to revert to a spare chassis during a race weekend in 2019 after Russell sustained heavy damage🅰 during FP1 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after hittಞing a loose drain cover.

A busy night in the garage after we found some damage whilst rebuilding 's car overnight, which was not repairable at the track.

We've changed to the spare chassis for t🍃he rest of the weekend, and are set ﷺfor with both cars running all our new items  

— ROKiT WILLIAMS RACING (@WilliamsRacing)

The B🍨ritish squad had hoped to find key performance gains from its upgrade package in Germany as it looks to close t𒐪he gap to the F1 midfield after a torrid start to 2019.

F1 teams are prevented from working on its cars overnight between ღFP2 and FP3, with two exceptions permitted across a season, w𝔉ith Williams using their first permitted exception this weekend. Toro Rosso also from F1 curfew rules overnight for the first time this season.