Q: Both cars finished the Chinese Grand Prix. Given the team’s recent reliability problems, could you draw any satisfaction from 13th (Barrichello) and 18th (Maldonado) read more »

With Williams suffering their worst-ever start to a F1 season, tech director Sam Michael admits heads could roll - including his own... read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael has said that he will remain with the team until the end of this season at least, but has not ruled out being part of the team's... read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael says that changes 'will' be made to the organisation to turn around its disappointing start to the season - and he has not... read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: There is nothing satisfying about finishing out of the points. Reliability-wise, however, it was positive to get both cars to the read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: Although not reflected in our result this afternoon, the qualifying pace of the FW33 has improved. After testing the new read more »

Sam Michael is rumoured to be facing the axe as a result of Williams poor showings in Melbourne and Sepang. read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: The corners in Shanghai are all heavily loaded on entry, particularly Turn 1. This normally requires a strong front end for read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael has said that the team is targeting a top ten qualifying and race position at this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. read more »

Williams F1 preview the Chinese Grand Prix with Pastor Maldonado and Sam Michael. read more »

Adam Parr, Chairman: Q: What is your assessment of the team's start to the season?ASP: Like everyone at Williams, I am both surprised and frustrated with read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: As a team, we expect to, and must, perform much better than that on all fronts. Rubens had a left rear read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael is hopeful that his team will show stronger pace in today's Malaysian Grand Prix than it did in qualifying read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: That certainly wasn't the qualifying session we were aiming for, but we struggled to get more out of the FW33 read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: After some minor electrical issues with the KERS in the morning session, we had good reliability this afternoon. Our main target read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: Sepang is dominated by two high-speed corner combinations as well a number of slow-speed corners. There are three long straights at read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael says the team expects the Drag Redution System (DRS) to lead to more overtaking at the Malaysian Grand Prix. read more »

Sam Michael says he is encouraged by the pace of the new Williams FW33 despite double DNF in Australia read more »

Technical director Sam Michael looks back at a disappointing weekend for Williams at the Australian Grand Prix... read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael insists the best has yet to come from the new FW33 after a shaky start to the season in Australia read more »

Williams’ Sam Michael believes that the new Drag Reduction System (DRS, also known as Adjustable Rear Wing) will yield more passing in races, but only when it has been... read more »

The Australian Grand Prix reaped little reward for Williams, with Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado both retiring from the race with transmission problems. read more »

Williams was one of two teams to experience a double retirement at the start of the new season, with both Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado suffering transmission... read more »

Q: Neither FW33 finished the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. What caused the retirements of Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado? Sam Michael: We had transmission... read more »

Q and A with Sam Michael read more »