Williams Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas is already the "real deal" as a racer, according to the team's new head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley.Long-time Ferrari engineer Smedley left the Scuderia earlier this year and joined up with his new team for the first time in the Bahrain Grand Prix,...

Williams can head into 2014 confident of a return to form after its encouraging end to the current Formula 1 season, reckons Valtteri Bottas.The radical step of ditching its Coanda-effect exhausts has helped transform the pace of the FW35, and Bottas scored his first points at Circuit of The Americas...

Williams has announced that Susie Wolff and Daniel Juncadella will join Pastor Maldonado in this week's young driver test at Silverstone.After weeks of speculation about its plans for the test, Williams confirmed that Wolff will get her first proper run in a Formula 1 car, having completed an aero test...

Pastor Maldonado believes he can score a points finish to add gloss to Williams's 600th grand prix celebrations at Silverstone this weekend. The Venezuelan says that the high-speed sweeps of Silverstone should suit the FW35, giving Williams chance to end its point-less 2013 run."We will do our best this weekend...

Pat Symonds will attend his first grand prix as Williams technical director in Belgium this weekend.Symonds, who last month left his position as Marussia technical consultant started work at Williams today.He is expected to spend the first part of this week in the factory before heading to Spa to evaluate...

Williams's push to continue developing its 2013 car is not compromising next year's machine, according to deputy team principal Claire Williams.The team has endured a disappointing season so far, and only scored its first point of the year in the Hungarian Grand Prix last month. While Williams reckons it is...

Williams has announced that Susie Wolff and Daniel Juncadella will join Pastor Maldonado in this week's young driver test at Silverstone.After weeks of speculation about its plans for the test, Williams confirmed that Wolff will get her first proper run in a Formula 1 car, having completed an aero test...