Vowles dismisses Williams 2026 title hopes as 'not realistic'

The 46-year-old, who took over at Williams after 12 years as a strategy guru with Mercedes, said he was determined that the team should do at least as well as their fifth place in the constructors' standings in 2025, their joint-best finish in 10 years. "Our expectation is 2025 set the baseline. P5 is where I want us to be at our base, and we nudge forward from there," Vowles told AFP. "But it's exponentially harder, in my experience, being P4, and exponentially harder being P3, P2, P1. "And I think with what you can see at the moment...