WilliamsF1's former technical director Patrick Head has had a couple of races in which to view proceedings both within the team and without from afar - and he doesn't exactly like what he saw. An out-spoken individual at the best of times, Head has been amazed by the turn of events that has seen the team claim just one legitimate point from the last three races, frustrated by the performances of both team and drivers; and confounded by speculation surrounding the Williams-BMW line-up for next season. Speaking to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, Head voiced his opinions on all three subjects - and left little to the imagination. "Taken as a whole, [things] certainly don't reflect well on the team," he said, "One point from the Nurburgring because our drivers chose to run into each other at the first corner, nothing from Canada despite finishing second and fifth, and nothing from Indianapolis despite qualifying fifth and sixth.
"We often ask our drivers to be careful at the first corner but, ultimately, you can't control the split-second decisions they make at the time. [Canada was] an idiotic infringement that should have been caught at four different levels within the company, [and Indianapolis] was due - in part - to a stupid problem on the grid when the mechanics tried to get the starter motor into the back of the car too late, and then made the decision to get the driver to the spare car too late."