Arguably one of the biggest disappointments of the 2016 Formula 1 season is the fact that Williams have been below par for reasons they fail to understand and as a result have the pushed the start button on development of their 2017 F1 challenger early.
Pat Symonds told media, "In the last two years, we've been proud that we have brought things to the track that have performed as we anticipated."
"During that time, there was only one thing we brought that didn't do what we hoped it would do,so that is a pretty good record.
"This year, we've had two quite major developments and they haven't delivered as much as we expected. We have made a call to switch to next year's car quite early on."
"We've introduced fewer upgrades than normal and some of those haven't performed as well as we hoped they would. I'll be honest and say we're not completely sure [why] yet and we're having a big investigation into it right now.
"We will get to the bottom of it, it's the nature of the way we work at Williams, and we do go into things in a lot of detail so we will sort it."
"As a team, I would feel more comfortable if we were more on top of tyres. It's a difficult subject for all of us and it's an area where I feel we need to put more resource into it," concluded Symonds.
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