Williams: Trying to rebuild your team isn’t a work of moment

Speaking to the official F1 website, the daughter of Sir Frank Williams knows exactly where her team stands, "You don’t go from P5 to P10 without having a number of areas of weakness across your organisation and that’s clearly what we have."

"We went for quite an aggressive strategy over the winter, we felt we probably needed to if we were going to affect any significant change. That didn’t pan out for us. Then on top of that, we got our aero programme wrong. Sometimes that happens, but it is what it is."

"Over-panicking in situations like this is the worst mistake you can make. It’s a case of sitting down and analysing all the areas of weakness. We’ve been through that process, we’ve uncovered along the way some other areas of weakness. So from that perspective, it’s been a positive exercise for us. It has enabled us to start from zero and move forward from there."

Since they last won a Formula 1 world title with Jacques Villeneuve over two decades ago, the team has been in steady decline with occasional blips of good form. But right now they are at arguably their lowest ebb with little if any light at the end of the tunnel.

Last year Paddy Lowe was drafted into the team in an effort to bolster the operation but, despite hiring highly rated former Ferrari man Dirk de Beer, the first car under Lowe's watch - the FW41 - has been a flop and contributed to the downfall eg. Lawrence Stroll buying Force India so his lad Lance can have a half decent ride.

As a result the axe was wielded internally, Chief Designer Ed Wood was first to go for whatever reasons, followed by de Beer. The departure of the fall guys has blown a hole in the essential management positions within the team.

Williams acknowledged the problems, "We’re looking to fix this internally. People underestimate the kind of time it can take to reset a Formula 1 team. You don’t just swap a few people out. It’s not ever about one person anyway."

"Trying to rebuild your team internally isn’t a work of moment. If you make rushed decisions, you can make mistakes. We need to make sure we’re properly analysing every area, whether that’s people, resource, structures, processes."

"We’re going through that analysis now and making our decisions off the back of those results. Everything needs to be data driven, so we get it right. It’s not just emotive or visceral reaction to something, because in that circumstance you normally get it wrong."

"It has to be a slow process, because this is such a big machine that we’re trying to turn around, so you have to go through it methodically. If we do all that, we can turn a corner," added Williams.