Williams expecting fight with Ferrari
A close group of challengers is forming up behind dominant Mercedes ahead of the 2015 season.
Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne this week revealed he thinks the team's new SF15-T is now "on par" with Red Bull, the 2014 runner-up.
But also in that battle, it seems, is Williams, who ended last season with arguably the best car behind the title-winning works Mercedes.
Referring to Ferrari, senior Williams engineer Rod Nelson is quoted by Italy's Tuttosport: "We will fight with them, especially early in the season. It will be a good fight.
"At the moment we believe Mercedes is out of reach," he said after the final test in Barcelona last week.
"They did a super time with the soft tyres, while we were using the super-soft, but surely we will fight for the podium," Nelson added.
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WE are all crazy, to watch Formula 1, as long as 'ol Bernie Eccelstone is running the show. HE is the one who dictates which team will do better than others! It would be financially disastrous for any one team to completely and continually win everything in sight. Sooo as soon as a team has had a turn at success, he "arranges" for another team to have a couple years of the same. What with all the technology available to every team, NO ONE should "run away and hide" from the others. I could understand a team having good fortune for a year, but NOT in a half-decade, at a time! Right now all you nay-sayers, and opinionated dudes are reaching for your key-board, to offer up your denial!! Sadly, we could discuss this until the ends of time. But, the problem at hand is, "how the hell are you going to prove it ??? 'nuff said !