The way Williams has started F1 2024 has laid bare the painful consequences of its much needed revolution. It’s no secret that Williams has been battling with under-invested facilities and an outdated culture for many years, with claims of the team being 20 years behind its rivals in some areas. But we had no idea just how desperate its situation looked ahead of the new season as team principal James Vowles and chief technical officer Pat Fry tried to get the team to leap towards the required modern standards. The depths of a brutal winter for Williams are quite shocking, and the impact it has had on its point-less start to the new season is real - costing the team laptime and valuable cost cap resources. If this is all sounding a bit dramatic, we promise we aren’t hamming it up. It surprised us when Vowles and Fry opened up about all this. 0:00 Intro 1:14 Breaking old cycles 2:54 Car built in Excel?! 4:43 'Never known anything like it' 6:44 How the FW46 was hurt 8:27 A necessary