Claire Williams has reiterated that Williams won’t give up on this year’s championship, adamant they’ve got to “get this car right.”

Adopting a different design philosophy for this year’s FW41, one could argue that Williams have got it horribly wrong.

The car has no straightline speed and struggled in cornering.

It has left the team bottom of the standings with four points, eight behind last year’s strugglers, Sauber.

“We have to fix this car,” she told Sky Sports F1.

“We don’t give up, we can’t give up during a season as we’re an independent team. If we gave up our sponsors would probably give up and we can’t afford to do that.