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Smedley: Williams need to improve all areas to recover from 2018 season

Smedley: Williams need to improve "all areas" to recover from 2018 season

18-11-2018 16:22
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Jake Williams-Smith

Williams engineering chief Rob Smedley believes that the team must improve in all areas if they are to recover from their awful 2018 season. The team has just seven points to their name and prop up the standings in last position well off the pace of their nearest rival.

Ahead of his final race with the team before taking time away from the sport, Smedley admitted that it was difficult to highlight just one area that had to be changed and instead made the point that the team had to fix a multitude of different things.

"I think it would be a mistake to pinpoint one area and say that has to be the sole concentration or that's the sole problem; it's not.

"As with anything that's not quite working as well as it should be, or as efficiently as it should be, with any business, with any organisation, it's never one thing.

"They've got strong leadership and Claire (Williams) is at the front of that leadership and I think at that leadership level they need a recovery plan and that has to attack all areas of the business. It has to be technical, but it has to be all the support structure of the business as well.

"There are areas that need modernisation, there are areas that need change and there are areas you should recognise that are strong compared to other Formula 1 teams but are not supported in other ways.

"It's a long road, they're a talented bunch there, there are some really good technical people, some really good engineers and a good management group and the trick now is they have to pull together and start to go in one direction."