Ralf Schumacher blames Williams' leadership for poor results

Former Williams driver Ralf Schumacher has said that he believes the team being run with fear and terror. Williams had a poor 2018 and it looks like 2019 could be even worse results wise. The Williams race winner has criticised the management system at Williams and believes that there is a toxic environment at the team.

“Williams has a very special leadership style. As long as Patrick Head was there it was balanced,” Ralf Schumacher said to motorsport-total.com.

“With the current structure, Williams cannot get the best out of its employees, because there is no team cohesion,” Schumacher said. “The engineers are working against each other more than with each other.

“Unfortunately, Claire has kept her father’s habits, and she should certainly wonder if that is the right job for her. Perhaps Williams’ team management needs to be restructured,” he added.

“A man (Paddy Lowe) who has just been fired was very successful at other teams, and even he failed to put Williams back on track. That’s enough to start asking questions,” said Ralf.

Williams will be rapidly trying to determine what is going wrong and perhaps will look at their management structure for change.