Williams Start their season very optimistically, with high for the all new FW33. The team will race this year with two latin American drivers. The Veteran Rubenz Barrichello, and this year’s rookie Pastor Maldonado. Williams are trying hard to get back to winning ways after a long time with no victory in F1. Last victory was at Brazil in 2006 with Juan Pablo Montoya, another South American
Team boss Frank Williams hopes that it could be the car which sees them back at the front of the grid:
“Our ambition is get back to the front of the grid We know that won’t be easy, but we hope this car will take us closer to the leaders than we were in 2010. As a team, we’re as ambitious now as we’ve ever been.” Frank Williams
Williams’ chief technical officer Sam Michael was cautiously optimistic about the new FW33:
“Until you start testing, you’re never sure how you’re going to stack up against the opposition, but we’re optimistic,” he said.”We think this is a good car, but we’ll have a better overall picture in a few weeks’ time. The design of this year’s car has been pretty smooth. We’ve improved our way of working by increasing the communication between the mechanical and aerodynamic departments, and that improved our decision making processes. It allowed us to increase the optimisation time spent on each part of the car.” Sam Michael
