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Frank Williams wants to be back at the top

Formula 1 team boss Frank Williams believes they can make it back at the top, even though they are having a pretty bad season this year. Williams is currently eighth in the constructors' championship.

"It's the worst we've been since... Patrick (Head) and I started in 1977," Frank Williams told reporters in Monza. "The lowest we've ever been since 1977 I'm pretty certain is fifth so eighth is just unblinkingly, humiliatingly shocking."

"It is much more difficult nowadays, I'm not crying on this, we want to beat the guys and we can, but there is hard competition out there and it knows what its doing, there are six manufacturers. That's the mountain to climb for us, but it can be done."

"Clearly our product is the problem and we have a pretty straightforward idea of what we must do," said Williams. "I can't talk about what we're going to do but we just know what we need to do to make a faster car. Some of the reasons why we have failed in races is lack of adherence to correct internal process. No one's left anything undone, that I'm aware of."

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