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Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams admits that the team did not expect to be so far behind the rest of the field in Melbourne.
After the third free practice session on Saturday, the Grove squad was 19th and 20th, with George Russell 1.4 seconds away from his nearest competitor in P18.
Williams is set for a difficult season ahead as it attempts to recover from its slump, but Claire says that struggling at the season-opener was a situation that it knew would arise.
“It’s not been the start that we hoped for but probably one that we expected,” she told Sky Sports F1. “We knew that it was going to be tough. We knew that it was going to be difficult from the outset.
“I don’t think we thought we were going to be as far off the pace as we are and that is going to be difficult for us to try and claw back.
“But that’s what we do at Williams, we fight and we keep on fighting and we won’t give up until we make changes and to deliver greater performance. And we need to do that because we’ve got great drivers in George and Robert [Kubica].”
Williams' pre-season testing schedule got underway late as it waited for parts to add to its car.
The team is not expected to be in danger of not qualifying outside the 107% rule.
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