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Massa: Williams ‘needed to change’

Felipe Massa says Williams “needed to change” on a number of fronts in 2014 in order to be able to maximise its potential this year.

While Williams often had the second quickest car last year, Red Bull was the only team other than Mercedes to win races as it took three victories. Having finished third in the constructors’ championship in 2014, Massa says Williams is a completely different team to 12 months ago because there were so many areas that needed to be improved on.

“I feel more comfortable inside the team,” Massa said. “I saw so many things here last year that we needed to change that it was not so easy just to sit and say a lot of negative things that we need to change.

“It takes time, the team does not change from one day to another but I think the team changed a lot and it was really a good change and good growth together in so many different areas.

“You don’t win a championship by just being good in one area, you need to win the championship by being good in most of the areas. I’m really looking forward to when everything is more complete and we can fight in a much better condition than we were fighting last year.”

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.