Felipe Massa: Williams needs to triple development to fight for titles

Felipe Massa says Williams needs three times as much development on its car if it is to fight for championships next year.

Williams has already secured third place in the constructors' championship this year, but despite being on the podium four times it has not come close to challenging for a race win. Mercedes and Ferrari continue to develop at a rapid rate ahead of Williams, and Massa thinks his team needs to significantly improve to stand a chance of challenging them on track.

"I think to fight for the championship we need triple development of the car, from now until the first race," he told ESPN. "We know Mercedes is very strong -- they lapped [up to] fifth in Brazil which shows how strong they are.

"I hope we can have a good improvement next year and that we can fight in a better way these teams, especially Mercedes and Ferrari that are stronger than us this season."

But Massa says it is nothing new to have one or two team dominating F1.

"Well, since I started in Formula One it was like that. In all these years that I raced, maybe a few years that we had a few teams fighting -- especially when I was fighting, it was two teams fighting for the championship.

"Normally most of the time you always have a team that is stronger than the other which is maybe not what people want to see but is not something starting from now, it's something we've seen in the whole history of Formula One."