Sirotkin confident that Williams can recover from poor 2018 form

Sergey Sirotkin believes that Williams can recover from the disappointment that has been their 2018 season. The Russian is the only driver on the grid yet to score a point this season but says he is enjoying the challenge that has been presented to him in his rookie season.

Speaking to Crash.net, Sirotkin said that the difficulties and trials he was facing now would be useful in the future for his career down the road.

“There are many things which will benefit me later in my career.

“First of all I do enjoy to be in the team as I am, to know that I get this place within the team, to have this role within the team and all the development that will happen.

“I really feel like its appreciated, I really feel like I do have respect and I do have appreciation for what I am doing and how I am doing the things. It’s something which gives me a lot of motivation.

“I think I have a very good position within the team, I really have my role and I enjoy taking this role, being part of the team, being part of the big group of people and sharing my motivation with them.

“It’s a big challenge because it’s far more complicated than just jumping in the car and driving but I enjoy taking this challenge.”

As to his future in Formula One, the Russian said it has been difficult due to the struggles the team has been going through.

“I am quite sure the people who I want to know, they know.

“So I am not too worried about it but I do believe there are some situations where you know that you have done the perfect job, but very often even in an interview I am not able to say this because I know on the outside it didn’t look like it.

“You don’t want to come up there and say you did the perfect job because there’s not much people that know this. So it’s not going to make a good impression. So in this case it’s quite impossible to impress.

“It’s quite impossible to do anything but again I know that the key people in the team, they all know it and are aware so this is most important for us.”

He added that he felt positive that his Williams team could recover from their disappointing 2018 season so far: “I’m very confident. Very confident.”