(Williams Martini Racing Team)
The Williams Martini Racing Team will find it tough to
improve on their strong 2014 Formula One season this year according to Chief
Technical Officer Pat Symonds.
The Grove based outfit finished the 2014 season in third
place in the Constructors championship ending the year on 320 points, 104 ahead
of Scuderia Ferrari. Speaking on the main stage on the opening day of the 2015
Autosport International Show Symonds said that the team are not one with a huge
budget but equally they are not in financial difficult which gives the
Englishman ‘great pleasure’ in beating Ferrari.
Symonds went on to say that the team need to ‘exploit
their continuity’ as a number of their rivals have new people on board
and new power units.
Williams Martini Racing are one of only four teams to field
an unchanged line up in 2015 and this is something that should stand to the
them. The outfit secured their first front row start since the 2003 German
Grand Prix when Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas locked out the front row at
the Red Bull Ring in Austria.
Symonds believes that the team got on top of all of the
regulation changes that were brought in last season. 2015 sees some stability
in the technical regulations and this should mean that fans and teams alike
will be treated to another extra special season.
He believes that it in order for the Grove based outfit to
be successful they need to get everything working together, not just on the
technical side of things but also from an operational point of view.
The team will be hoping that the 2015 season brings with it
their first victory since the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix.
Symonds also believes that Valtteri Bottas has the potential
to be world champion in the future after the Finn secured six podium finishes
on his way to ending the year in 4th place in the championship while
Felipe Massa finished the year in 7th place in the championship.
© Ben Johnston 2015
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