Frank Williams backs his team

For WilliamsF1 team head Frank Williams the 2005 season has seen the team struggle, despite achieving a third place in Malaysia, to produce the results that were expected. But despite this he still views his team as one of the tops teams in Formula One and supports the teams drivers for their efforts so far this season.

Williams, on the BMW WilliamsF1 web site spoke of his and Mark Webber and Nick Heidfeld. Despite their poor performance at the recent San Marino Grand Prix, where the team did not score a point, Williams still rates his team highly.

As for the teams performance at Imola Williams felt that the team should not dwell on this race but focus on continually improving the performance of the FW27. Williams said: "Last weekend‘s race in Imola was very disappointing for the team. There were a number of reasons why Nick and Mark finished where they did, most of which are self-evident, including the inability to overtake the Toyotas.

We can not, however, dwell on the result in Imola so we are now looking forward to the forthcoming round in Barcelona next weekend and achieving a better result there. Our ability to catch up with the front-runners will very much depend on the amount of additional performance we can bring to the car every race, we know this is our task so this is what we are doing."

As for the performance of the team Williams added: “We’re still a top team but for several years, we’ve been hampered by the problem that it takes us several races before our cars are able to battle for the victory.

“It has been the same this year. Once again, our rivals have done a better job during the off-season.”

As for the performance of the teams drivers Frank was full of praise for their efforts.

He added: “Mark and Nick aren’t as experienced as their predecessors were. But they work harder and are more passionate.”