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Williams' 2018 Formula 1 car "a lot more aggressive"
Retired Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa says Williams's 2018 challenger looks "more aggressive" than its predecessor.
Lawrence Barretto
Edited: Jan 5, 2018, 7:00 PM
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Massa, who left Williams after four years with the team, scored 43 points in 2017 with the team ending up fifth in the constructors' championship.
Next year's car will be the first that chief technical officer Paddy Lowe will have an influence on and Massa says visually, the changes are significant.
"I saw the new car in the wind tunnel and I saw so many changes that look quite interesting," Massa told Motorsport.com.
"Everybody is working. Maybe you get to the first race and everybody has so many different changes and everything in the car.
"The car looks a lot more aggressive. It looks a lot different so I believe maybe they can improve."
Williams could not compete with Force India in the battle for fourth in the constructors' championship last season and with Renault and McLaren expected to be stronger next term, Massa knows Williams will have a fight on its hands.
"You will have Renault that will improve," he said. "You will also have McLaren so we need to see how much it can be this improvement.
"I need to see also what the drivers can do but I believe maybe the team can have a better car compared to what we had until now."
Lowe says there is progress being made on the 2018 car, but he expects a very busy period until the first pre-season test starts on February 26.
"People are very busy with the car," said Lowe. "There's lots of work to do and some things are a bit late unfortunately.
"So people are going to have to really work very hard in the next two to three months. But there is some good work going on and we hope to make a big improvement compared to this year's car."
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