Year to Forget: Williams
Piquet and Mansell may well not have got on but at least they were given cars to win world championships. Relations between Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado seemed amicable enough but would not Sir Frank Williams have traded a fight or two in favour of a return to the good old days?
Given the way things turned out in 2011, Sir Frankmight well have offered the same simply for a podium appearance; he might even have offered to go out and buy the handbags. It really has got that bad for the nine times' constructors' champions, who managed just five points in 19 races - points that wouldn't have existed two seasons ago.
The team's FW33 chassis, with its low-slung gearbox designed to improve air flow to the rear beam wing, was a bit of a departure but one that evidently did not work. The nadir came in Abu Dhabi, where Barrichello and Maldonado occupied the very back row of the grid. That wasn't an accurate reflection of their pace (an oil leak prevented Barrichello from setting a time while Maldonado picked up a 10-place grid penalty after exceeding his allotted engine allowance for the season) but it was a nevertheless a stark indicator of how far the team's stock has plummeted in recent years. - htp://www.sportinglife.com
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