(© Ben Johnson 2015)
Williams Martini Racing Team’s Valtteri Bottas is hopeful
that the Grove based outfit will have been able to close the gap to Mercedes
over the winter.
As the opening race of the 2015 Formula One season is just
one week away many are predicting that Mercedes will once again like last year
will be the team to beat. The Brackley based outfit won all but three Grand
Prix last season with Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo the only
non-Mercedes powered car to have taken victory.
Bottas has stated however that he will be happy if his team
who finished the 2014 campaign in third place are closer to Mercedes this
season. The Finn stated that he thinks his team’s preparations for the 2015
went to plan.
While Bottas is hopeful that the team have closed the gap to
Mercedes, Williams Martini Racing Team Technical Director Pat Symonds believes
that the outfit can realistically target Grand Prix victories in 2015 having
come tantalizingly close on several occasions last season.
Symonds says that the ideal situation for this season would
be for the team to consolidate their current position and possibly improve on
it.
© Ben Johnston 2015
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