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F1 2016 review: Williams' season goes downhill

Motorsport.com's experts rate the Formula 1 teams' performances during the 2016 season. Today: Williams. Tech highlights  By Giorgio Piola and Matt Somerfield The allure of the 2017 regulations and a smaller development budget were to be Williams' Achilles heel this season. Development of the FW40 has taken precedent, with little additional development done on the 2016 challenger than was scheduled before the season got under way. The inherent problem with stacking development onto next year's project early is, if you've not quite got this one right, you look to be stumbling around in search of performance. At stages during 2016 this appeared to be the case, something that couldn't have...
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