In a teleconference after the Williams F1 team had confirmed Bruno Senna for the 2012 season Williams's Chief Operations Engineer Mark Gillan spoke to autosport.com of how he felt that the team is confident of making significant progress in 2012 after their extremely disappointing 2011 season..

Gillan said: "Obviously it will be a quite a significant improvement in performance but that is our goal and I am reasonably confident looking forward that we will achieve that goal.

"We want to be consistently in the top ten, going through to Q3 and consistently scoring points. I am confident we can achieve that goal."

Gillan also spoke of the changes that the Williams team has made in particular how they have made sure that the 2011 errors are not repeated in 2012.

He added: "The overall development of the car is going well and on plan. The car build has started and the processes has dramatically changed from last season to make sure we capture faults along the way as quickly as possible and not have as many issues as last season.

"Generally, the performance trend looks encouraging and the processes on the design side have dramatically changed."

As for the 2012 Williams driver line-up, which will see two relatively inexperienced drivers behind the wheel of the FW34 Gillan sees this as an opportunity rather than a problem for the team.

"It obviously puts added pressure on the operations side, but to me it is an opportunity," he said. "We have three reasonably inexperienced drivers but three with great potential and it is up to us as a team and the drivers to effectively unlock that potential throughout the season and maximise the performance."