Williams co-owner Patrick Head has said that the team are to move resources away from the development of next year's car.
"We need to do better than we are doing at the moment," says co-owner
Williams co-owner Patrick Head has said that the team are to move resources away from the development of next year's car in order to get their 2008 season back on track.
The team, who currently lie sixth in the Constructors' Championship, have recently endured a string of poor performances with a car, the FW30, which has appeared quick at some circuits but lacked performance at others.
Their best result came in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, in which Nico Rosberg finished third. The German currently lies 11th in the Drivers' Championship, tied with rookie team-mate Kazuki Nakajima.
Rosberg has failed to score a point in his last four races, crashing in Monaco and also in Canada where he ran into the back of Lewis Hamilton's McLaren in the pit lane after the Briton had already collided with Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari.
The team have increasingly switched their attentions to next year's challenger but, according to Head, resources will be diverted back to this year's car in an effort to turn their season around.
"We've been sort of switching quite a lot of attention towards 2009 and our aero programme has been working in part on 2009 for quite some time," he said at last weekend's British Grand Prix.
"We recently moved the majority of the aero programme to be on 2009 but we are in the process of retro-putting some attention back to 2008 because we need to do better than we are doing at the moment."
Tough challenge
Williams ended last season fourth overall after McLaren were stripped of all their points for a spying controversy and Head said it would be a tough challenge to retain that position.
Toyota - who supply Williams with engines - currently lie fourth in the Constructors' Championship, nine points ahead of Williams.
"Magny-Cours was fairly poor, Monaco and Montreal we had the potential to get some good results but they were probably not Nico's best races." he said.
"It's obviously not ideal but what do you do? You sort it out and that's what we'll do."
Head added that he, team boss Frank Williams, technical director Sam Michael and Rosberg also had "a very straightforward talk" after the driver's pit lane collision in Montreal.
"There were no harsh words, no raised voices," he said. "Obviously we work as a team but in effect Nico didn't get the results that he could have got and he's aware of that."
