Pastor Maldonado: Williams' form frustrating

Maldonado celebrating his win at the Spanish Grand Prix,2012.

Williams driver Pastor Maldonado would have had big hopes after winning the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix, but ever since that it has been a downhill struggle for him and the team.

He started the 2013 season with two retirements and ever since has managed to score only a single point at the Hungarian Grand Prix, which remains the team’s only point this season.

In the run up to the Singapore Grand Prix, the Venezuelan said: “For sure it’s frustrating. To win a race last year – a couple of months ago – and this year to be fighting to even make it in to Q2 for sure is a big frustration. But we never back off, we are pushing very hard as a team, I am trying to do my best … but still we need to do some big changes in terms of performance in the car.”

“Aero-wise we need to improve and soon we will improve with some new aero packages. We are still pushing with this year’s car and maybe we can have maybe not the car to win all the races but have the car to put us in a good position to fight for points.” he added.

In the run up to the big changes next year, Maldonado remains optimistic. He said: “The only problem we have is maybe the most important which is the car, but if we work hard and put everything together I think we can solve the problems. We have a lot of experience, we have great people, a great factory as well. I think we have all the tools to make a strong car.”

The team is facing a disappointing season and can only hope to score more points. They have managed to score only a single point as of now and lie in 9th position in the Championship.