Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve says he is sad but not surprised by what has happened to the Williams team, once the mightiest of them all for decades now reduced to perrenial backmarkers.
The Canadian, a pundit for Sky Italia, is the last driver to have won the world championship for the team founded by Sir Frank Williams.
The same team, now run by Williams' daughter Claire, is easily the slowest in the field. After Sochi, Robert Kubica's sponsor demanded to know why the Pole had to retire a healthy car in order to save parts.
"What saddens me is how the team has been managed in recent years," 1997 world champion Villeneuve said at Suzuka."But given that management, there is no surprise about where they are. It makes sense.
"I think it's right in a way that it's going so badly for them, because with a team with such a name, such a glorious past, to be competitive whilst being managed so badly would be a pity. So it's deserved," Villeneuve added.
The man whose 11 Grand Prix victories were achieved with Williams, has never been shy to call it as he sees it with his former team and what he sees clearly does not impress him.
As a result of some of his piquant observations a few years ago he has been banned from the team's compound in the paddocks around the world. After this latest declaration, it is even more unlikely he will be invited back any time soon to his former team enclosure to quaff a beverage or munch a canape.
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