One of the biggest regulation overhauls in F1 history will come into play in 2022, including the introduction💞 of an all-new car designed to produce closer racing and increase overtaki🎶ng. 

Williams has already switched its full development focu🍰s onto 2022 in a bid to capitalise on the rules revolution and seek early performance gains to move further up the grid. 

“It’s🎉 for a while now on 2022,” Capito said of h൩is team’s development plan.

“It is just if we see something obvious can be improv🐭ed with this year’s car and we have the capaci♈ty to do it beside the 2022 car then we do it, but the full focus is on 22.” 

Capito believes the new rules could result in some surprises next year but expects teams to remain in the𓂃 dark abou💖t their prospects until their 2022 challengers hit the track in anger for the first time. 

“It’s difficult to say because every team is working in isolation, so you don’t know where the others are,” he explained. “So you are fighting against competition💜 that you 🐈don’t see.

“When you finally get on track next year thꦫen you finally fight against competition that you can see and you know what they are doing and can see what they have done. 

“But now, everybody tries their very best and there could be a surprise next year how the ranking or💯der wil♋l be.”

After a number of years anchore൲d to the back of the F1 grid, Williams has enjoyed a much-improved 2021 season that 🧔has seen it regularly reach Q2 and advance to Q3 on two occasions

The Grove-based outfit also ended its two-year waiꦅt for points at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Nicholas Latifi leading a two-car score in seventh place ahead of teammate George Russ⛄ell. 

The result lifted Williams above both🧸 Alfa Romeo and Haas and up to eighth in the constru♓ctors’ championship. 

“I think the results and how the team moved forward through the first half of the year, nobody would have expected that at the beginnin🍌g of the season,” Capito added. 

“To get that close to points and get in Q3, it seemed to be impossible. For me, personally, it’s go༒od to see how the te🐻am develops. 

“The best [thing] I’ve seen is not the results, but how the team develops, how the communication is improving and how the cooperation𝔉 within the team and the home tea𒈔m is improving. That for me, is the biggest thing I liked.

“For the team getting into Q3, we are now disappointed if we don’t get the point. I think two months ago everybody would have been very hap𝔉py if we were 11th or 12th, and now they ไare disappointed. 

“I think that’s a great thing for the team.”