Claire Williams: "I think it’s probably obvious from the time sheets where we are"

Claire Williams has said that her team has all the spare parts that they need after claims that they have no spare parts. Williams are in a very tough place at the moment but their times have started to improve but they are still a long way from competitive racing. They will hope to slowly improve each race weekend and climb their way up the grid. 

“We have a little bit of a backlog from not having got the car out when we needed to in testing. But everyone’s worked really hard at the factory to make sure we’ve got the spares we need,” Williams said to Sky F1. 

“To be honest, we’ve got spares for all the parts that we need, we’ve just got to make sure the drivers don’t do anything on track to jeopardise that.”

“A lot of teams anyway at this time of year are in a similar position. Clearly, we didn’t help ourselves. Anyway, it’s not anything I’m overly concerned about. I think it’s probably obvious from the timesheets where we are.”

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“I don’t think that’s necessarily down to the fact that we missed those two days of testing, that’s just the car that we’ve got. As you would expect we’ve got a plan in place back at the factory to make sure that we try and makeup as much as the delta that we’ve got, even just to P9 at the moment, and that’s the focus for everybody.”

Williams will hope to start to improve soon but things are looking tough for the team.