With the launch of the Williams Racing FW44 just days away the event will mark the first time that the team has delivered a new Formula One car designed and produced under the ownership of Dorilton Capital. For the new owners this launch is just the culmination of many months of hard work behind the scenes by the team as they worked towards upgrading the core infrastructure of the team.

In a recent interview for The Race Williams Racing's Dave Robson spoke of the work that occurred as the team worked to reinvigorate the teams infrastructure which would assist the process of designing and developing the new FW44.

Robson said: “The first thing which was done was mostly [upgrading] the windtunnel."

“Because there was no development of the tool for many years.

“That started straight after Dorilton bought Williams. They invested in computing power because of CFD capacity and now we are more working on different test rigs.

“We are also to improve the atmosphere in the team. The team lost some very good engineers, so you employ new ones but they have to learn to work together.

“We have a lot of young engineers that we need to teach and bring them to the level.

“It’s a massive project, which makes it difficult. We can’t put 100% of our workforce on developing next year’s car, for example, because we have also to do a lot of R&D projects for the longer term.

“And we have the cost cap we have to work within. So it’s a long journey.

“Our investor, they really want us to build this proper machine, a winning machine, and they know that two to three years is to build the team and another two to three to develop this team.

“So that’s our long-term plan.”