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Bottas: It will be difficult to close the gap to Ferrari

Williams driver Valtteri Bottas has echoed the team' technical boss Rob Smedley in playing down his team's chances of chasing down Ferrari in 2015. Team deputy Claire Williams admitted in Bahrain that the Grove team had hoped to build on its promise of last year and take on champions Mercedes in 2015. 'That's what we wanted to do this year,' she said, 'and it hasn't worked out like that.' But Williams insisted the famous British team will 'keep plugging away' at the factory despite its smaller budget, culminating in significant upgrades for the FW37 to debut in Barcelona next month. Chief engineer Smedley, however, warned that not only will Williams struggle to 'rapidly increase our...
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