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Bottas not sure Williams can catch top teams

Valtteri Bottas has joined team engineer Rob Smedley in playing down Williams' 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 pace' and catch Mercedes and...
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