Jost Capito remains confident his Williams team can return to the front of the grid as he takes hope from the examples of Red Bull and Ferrari.
The team is no longer owned by the Williams family, but it still bears the name of its founder Sir Frank and remains one of the most historic the sport has ever seen. Gone are the days, however, of competitive cars and world champion drivers.
Instead, those famous blue and white cars have largely been making up the numbers in recent seasons. Capito is the man charged with the unenviable task of turning things around, and he insists there is still hope of what would be a much-welcomed resurgence.
"The course of the season so far is not what we wanted," said the German, whose team sits bottom of the pile this season with just three points from 13 races so far. "But the team was at the bottom for years. There's a lot to rebuild there."
Speaking to Speedweek, he continued: "That's a long process in Formula 1. You saw that at Red Bull Racing and also at Ferrari. The same goes for Williams.
"Williams is a traditional racing team but has not been able to invest heavily in the last 10 years. If you look at the gap to the other teams at the beginning of the season, it has narrowed. We can now compete with other teams again and that's fun."
All three of the team's points so far in 2022 have been scored by Alex Albon, whose impressive displays despite an uncompetitive car saw him rewarded last week with a new multi-year contract. The former Red Bull racer is also optimistic about the future and believes recent technical rule changes will make it easier for the team to improve.
"The way I see it now is that [the rest of the season is] a really good opportunity for teams to bounce back [and] make up ground quickly," he told the GoF1 Show. "The way these cars are, it's so open, the concepts are so new, you can see a team like us – we've changed completely the philosophy of the car within six months.
"We know as a team where we are struggling, what type of corners we lose out in compared to other people. We know the reason why, it's not something we are scratching our heads about. So that gives us a clear direction to go towards if we can get that. Why not? Why can't we score points more regularly towards the end of the season?"
