Vowles stated he didn’t count on Williams to have the ability to problem on the entrance this season.
They’ve retained the identical drivers, with British-Thai Alex Albon partnered by Spaniard Carlos Sainz.
Albon completed eighth within the 2025 drivers’ championship, one place and 9 factors forward of Sainz, who managed two third-placed finishes in Azerbaijan and Qatar.
“We wish to set up 2025 as our new base and hold transferring ahead yr on yr throughout the board and throughout the enterprise,” he stated.
“There are some bits of the automobile which are completely championship stage. And there is different bits the place we now have an extended option to go earlier than we’re there, together with simply getting the automobile constructed and completed as a refined article. That does not result in podiums or wins.”
Vowles stated he had been impressed by the quantity of working accomplished by Ferrari and the Pink Bull groups. Pink Bull have been working the primary engine produced by their new in-house facility, and he stated Mercedes “got here out of the field sturdy”.
He additionally turned the newest rival to bathe reward on the design of the brand new Aston Martin, their first automobile beneath the management of design legend Adrian Newey.
“I would not wish to be a designer in Aston Martin. That is a really spectacular set of wishbones on that automobile. Actually, actually intrinsic or attention-grabbing design.”
Mercedes driver George Russell made the identical remark at their official launch on Monday.
“What Adrian has completed with that automobile, it seems to be fairly spectacular,” Russell stated.
“Aston Martin was in all probability essentially the most standout when it comes to the automobile design. I believe all people was that rear suspension and it clearly visually seems to be very spectacular. Nevertheless it’s not a contest of how attractive it’s. It is a competitors how briskly it goes across the observe.”
