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 »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: After problems with the sector settings on the moveable rear wing, Rubens’ FW33 had a strong opening pace and he was read more »

AT&T Williams F1 preview the season opening race in Australia, Melbourne.  Driver Pastor Maldonado is joined by Xevi Pujolar, his race engineer, and Sam... read more »

After completing nearly 5000 kilometers in winter testing, Williams feels ready to start the racing season. The team have resolved its KERS problems and are confident its FW33... read more »

Williams technical director Sam Michael looks back at the team's performance in winter testing and discusses the season ahead... read more »