Williams have undelivered this season and dropping to fourth in the championship standings, after the Belgian Grand Prix, could hit them hard in the pocket should they not recover before the end of the season,
Both Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa are struggling with a car that simply is not delivering the performance required to run with the pace setters.
Deputy team principal Claire Williams admitted to ESPN, “We’ve got some issues at the moment with tyre management and aero etc.”
As a consequence Force India, have leap-frogged the Grove outfit in the points standings, and should Williams be unable to turn around the deficit they will feel it financially.
Williams explained, “I am worried because losing fourth place in the championship means losing quite a lot of dollars as well in your prize money income, so it’s not something that we can allow to happen and we are going to have to work really hard if we are going to hold them off.”
“I know that Force India would love nothing more than to take fourth place and that for us would be extremely disappointing.”
“You’ve got the three teams at the top that are taking the top six positions, Williams and Force India and we are scrapping around for one, two, three points and maybe the odd occasion of being bumped up if there’s a reliability issue or whatever.”
“So [the battle with Force India] that really does worry me. That’s not what I wanted and that’s a result of some very disappointing races where we should have capitalised on circuits that suited our car, but we made a number of mistakes,” conceded Williams.
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