{"id":21571,"date":"2014-04-11T06:59:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T10:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21571"},"modified":"2014-04-11T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T10:59:50","slug":"first-races-have-shown-williams-weaknesses-bottas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/first-races-have-shown-williams-weaknesses-bottas\/","title":{"rendered":"First races have shown Williams ‘weaknesses’ – Bottas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valtteri Bottas has admitted Williams is yet to display its full potential in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Valtteri-Bottas-2\"Despite a horror 2013 season, following its switch to Mercedes power the Grove based team was billed as a contender for wins and even the title this year on the basis of its performance in winter testing.<\/p>\n

But although performing solidly in the three races so far, Bottas or Felipe Massa are yet to finish on the podium.<\/p>\n

“Sundays have not been a complete success for us,” Finn Bottas told the Finnish broadcaster MTV3.\u00a0 “Certain things, like strategy, have been left to be desired.<\/p>\n

“But we think really good results are still to happen, hopefully as soon as possible,” he added.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old admitted that the industry-leading Mercedes engine had been an early boost to Williams’ 2014 form.<\/p>\n

“Especially in Melbourne we felt that the engine was a definite advantage,” said Bottas.<\/p>\n

“But the difference was smaller in Malaysia and Bahrain, as the others are developing all the time.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, the FW36 is consistently showing some of the highest overall top speeds at circuits.<\/p>\n

Bottas said: “That also reflects the weaknesses of our car.\u00a0 Maybe we have a little less drag than the others, because we also have less downforce.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes, what we gain on the straight, we lose in the corners,” he added.<\/p>\n

It means that, although a pre-season favourite, Williams is currently the lowest-ranked team with Mercedes power, behind the works team, Force India and McLaren.<\/p>\n

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Valtteri Bottas has admitted Williams is yet to display its full potential in 2014. Despite a horror 2013 season, following its switch to Mercedes power the Grove based team was billed as a contender for wins and even the title this year on the basis of its performance in winter testing. But although performing solidly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,130,5340,538,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21572,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions\/21572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}