Williams expects to make significant progress by the end of summer.

      The Williams team is one of those for whom it is critically important to build the right strategy for upgrading the car in order to get out of the very difficult position it found itself in at the beginning of the season.

      It won't be quick, as the problem lies not only in the excessive weight of the FW48 chassis but also in its insufficient performance, making it difficult for drivers to even get beyond the first part of qualifying. So far, the team has a couple of points earned by Carlos Sainz in China.

      According to Williams team principal James Vowles, any noticeable progress will only be achievable closer to the end of summer.

      James Vowles: "You can see that there is an incredibly tight battle for positions around 5th to 7th place, and even those teams are not consistently earning points. So we need to try to get ahead of that group as well.

      Right now, I can realistically only predict that we have a huge amount of work ahead of us, which will continue even after the August break in the championship, to significantly increase the car's speed. But other teams will also be working on upgrading their technology, so everything is relative.

      I think we will be able to noticeably improve our performance after the summer break. We understand that we are not in a position to contend for points right now, but we want to gather as much information as possible at every race.

      To accurately determine the degree of correlation between the picture we see on the track and the calculations made during research in our wind tunnel and using CFD technologies, various methods can be applied. For example, sometimes you see that we use special paint to visualize the airflow around the car, and sometimes we install grids with various sensors on the FW48, primarily during practice – it's clear that we don't do this during the races.

      We use different settings for the front wing, increasing and decreasing its angle of attack, trying to achieve the desired level of downforce (this is exactly how the team operated during the Japanese Grand Prix when Alex Albon returned to the pits six times).

      This helps ensure that there are no unexpected reasons for our losses and that the settings we are using, while continuing aerodynamic research, are generally correct."