James Vowles: I think about the future

James Vowles only took over at Williams this year and the first successes are already visible, but according to him this is just the beginning.

“I am willing to give up the prospect of achieving something this year by participating in the modernization race, so that in 2024 I will have the opportunity to take a step forward and in 2025 I will have another chance and make more serious progress books,” he said. the Williams boss in an interview with the official championship odds. – I think about the future. I don’t feel like fighting for the last bonus point every weekend, as is happening now.

I’m much more interested in the prospect of becoming a team that will rise to higher positions in the future. Given the budgetary constraints, it is impossible to do these two things at the same time: you do not have the opportunity to improve the current situation in the championship and implement radical reforms at the same time. And we are in the process of radical reforms of the team. It’s like throwing a grenade: first you have to destroy the system, then you can fix it and make it much better.

That’s why I’m willing to sacrifice this season to continue making progress. This is the only way to lay the foundation on which all structures will subsequently be built correctly. But this means that we now cannot maintain the same pace of equipment modernization as other teams.

But I can only repeat what I said before I took this position: I am not coming to the team for the sake of progress in 2023 or 2024, or even in 2025. I am here to build structures and systems that will allow this team to thrive for at least the next can perform for ten years. I immediately made a condition: if this is what we are talking about, then I am the person Williams needs. If not, it’s not for me.

Everyone agreed with me, because if you really want to achieve success – and that is how I understand my task – you have to act like this.”