Valtteri Bottas concedes Williams has been outdeveloped by its Formula 1 rivals this season, with a number of the upgrades it has brought failing to deliver the expected gains.Williams outdeveloped all of its F1 rivals in 2014 and kept pace last year before tailing off toward the end of the...

Valtteri Bottas concedes Williams struggled to make the gains it had hoped for in the second in-season Formula 1 test at Silverstone.Williams tried three different front wings over the course of the 98 laps covered by Bottas on Wednesday, as he set the sixth-fastest time. The double-decker rear-wing tried by...

Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas and Alex Lynn complete the lineup for this week's second in-season Formula 1 test at Silverstone.The team is yet to determine on which days Bottas and development driver Lynn will take to the wheel of the FW38, with the test running over and Tuesday and Wednesday.At...

Williams has a "great opportunity" to close up to Formula 1's front-runners when new regulations arrive in 2017, says the team's performance chief Rob Smedley.After finishing third in the F1 constructors' championship for the past two seasons, Williams has slipped to fourth after eight races of the present campaign, trailing...

Felipe Massa says the radical rear wing run by Williams in the Formula 1 in-season test at Barcelona gathered data on curing the team's current problems.Development driver Alex Lynn gave the double-decker device its first run out on Tuesday, running it for half a day. Massa took over on Wednesday,...

Alex Lynn will be handed his second Formula 1 outing with Williams next week when he takes part in the first of this year's two in-season tests. Development driver Lynn made his F1 debut for Williams in the same test a year ago at Barcelona's Catalunya circuit that followed the...

Williams has appointed Paul di Resta as its reserve driver for the 2016 Formula 1 season.Di Resta, who drove for Force India between 2011 and '13, will dovetail his F1 duties with a campaign for Mercedes in DTM. The Scot will spend "extensive time" with Williams at races and do...

Valtteri Bottas believes Williams has "improved many of the weaknesses of last year" following Formula 1's first pre-season test.When the FW38 was launched, technical director Pat Symonds said Williams had focused on the low-speed problems that it struggled with last season. Early impressions appear positive with Bottas suggesting Williams has...

Pat Symonds is hopeful Williams has addressed its Achilles heel going into the new Formula 1 season as it unveiled its 2016 car.Last year's FW37 proved problematic at low-speed circuits such as Monaco and the Hungaroring, where both Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas finished outside the points. Although Williams retained...

Long-time McLaren Formula 1 test driver and Mercedes DTM frontrunner Gary Paffett will join Williams as a simulator driver for 2016.Paffett, the 1999 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner and 2005 DTM champion, conducted extensive F1 testing with McLaren during a 13-year association with the team that ended in 2013.Williams deputy...