Question: How are you feeling about the season ahead?
Frank Williams: The car is looking good. You might see a few surprises, but it won’t be anything too dramatic once we get it down to the grid at Melbourne.
Question: Are you optimistic?
Frank Williams: Cautiously so because we haven’t really seen what anyone else has done yet.
Question: And what about your drivers for this year?
Frank Williams: We have Nico Rosberg for the fourth season, which is good, and Kazuki Nakajima for the second year. Kazuki is very quiet and the best mannered young man I have ever met but, in a racing car, he’s very aggressive and I think he could have a terrific future. We have two very ambitious drivers. If the
car’s good enough, they’ll be good enough.
Question: Nico has been saying that he needs to be in a top car by next year and the team have to show him that the Williams is a top car. How concerned are you that you are going to lose him?
Frank Williams: That’s something that we’ve thought about, of course. We can only convince him to stay if he wants to stay. Nico deserves a top car and would be giving guys like Hamilton and Vettel a hard time if he had a front running car.
Question: Recent press speculation would lead people to believe that Formula One is in dire straights, particularly following the recent news surrounding RBS. What are your thoughts on the situation?
Frank Williams: Certain news outlets have been reporting that it is all doom and gloom and that it is the end of the world for Formula One but that is utterly incorrect. They were also reporting that RBS were going to pull out of their partnership with the team and that was going to leave us with problems. However, as we know, they are fulfilling their contractual agreement with us and that is for another two years.
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