Sirotkin believes Williams have "performed well" in 2018

Williams have had a horrible season, scoring only four points, courtesy of Lance Stroll’s eighth place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but Sergey Sirotkin says that there have been times where he and Williams have driven the “perfect” race but have not got anything out of it due to the car’s lack of pace.

It’s been a very tough debut season for the Russian, with a best finish of 13th in Austria.

The soon to be 23-year old received the nod over Robert Kubica at the start of the season, who is now Williams’ test driver, but he has failed to repay the team in the points department.

However, Sirotkin believes that he and the team have performed very well in some races.

He said: "It's been quite a good year so far.

"I mean obviously not in terms of results but being realistic in the position where we saw ourselves after Australia and Bahrain it really changed the approach of the team with [their] expectations. 

"I think since then, for sure it was a tough year, it’s been quite difficult to make any impression – it doesn’t really matter how good the job you are doing, even from where we are it’s quite difficult.”

Unfortunately for Sirotkin and Williams, there have been no signs of improvement and they will be relieved to have the summer break to take a step back and try to improve for the second part of the season.

F1 needs Williams, and it is sad to see hem struggling so much that even a perfect race cannot yield points.