Williams' head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley says his team cannot afford to have race weekends like the one it experienced at Monaco.
For the first time this season, Williams failed to score a point last weekend after its cars finished 12th and 14th on the street circuit. The team struggled to extract mechanical grip from the tyres throughout the weekend, but Smedley said there could be no excuse for Williams if it is to consider itself a top team.
"The right approach is that we go away from here and we understand why we've got ourselves into this situation," Smedley said. "Williams has aspirations that we become once again a top team and I've said it before and I'll say it again and I'll keep repeating it, if you are to become a top team you can't fear anywhere. You can't come to Monaco and say you are going to have a weekend off. You can't."
Smedley said Williams would analyse the Monaco result in order to ensure the same thing does not happen next year.
"Up until now the car has been good enough to get between 18 and 22 points at every single race, and we have hit that target on most occasions. So you can't come to this one race and have a weekend off.
"If the car is good enough to get 22 points in all of the other tracks, which is a great mix and myriad of types of circuit, then you've got to be able to come to Monaco and get 22 points. I'm incredibly disappointed, and on a personal level, but we now have to go away and look at all aspects of the performance here."