Latifi sees Williams "always too far away" and talks about "fundamental problem" in 2022

Nicholas Latifi admitted he can't explain Williams' lack of pace, which he says can't compete with rivals' pace even when they're not pushing

In another disappointing year for Williams in Formula 1, in which the team has arguably the worst car on the grid, Nicholas Latifi admitted that he still doesn't completely understand why the FW44 doesn't respond to the setup and fails to correlate with the data always raised by the engineers. For the Canadian, something that has not yet been discovered by the British team is causing the pace to fall short.

"We're owing so much on pace, and that's from the start," Latifi explained. "With little fuel, with a lot of fuel, when the tires are good or when we are managing, we are always way off. We have to use these weeks to understand why and see if we can find something," he lamented.

"For me, it has to be something fundamental," he admitted. "There is no situation or condition on the track, even when the drivers are not pushing, that I feel the pace is there compared to our competitors. So we'll see. [We'll] try to give it a 'reset' going to Silverstone, and go from there," he said.

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Latifi admits he can't extract from the FW44 what the data indicates the car can do (Photo: Williams)

Latifi acknowledged that his lack of confidence in Williams' FW44 is a result of its low performance so far this season, but the driver suspects that there is some problem beyond his driving style.

"For me, looking back and beyond any limitations in the confidence that I had, the pace just wasn't there," he explained. "There are situations where I just don't feel like my car is capable of doing what is showing up in the data, which is not a good feeling to have," he lamented.

"It's a little bit puzzling. But again, we'll use this two-week break to see what we can analyze," he added.

With the two weeks off so valued by Latifi for Williams to try to solve some of its problems, Formula One only returns next month. The British GP, at the traditional Silverstone circuit, takes place between July 1st and 3rd.