For Williams F1 driver Pastor Maldonado qualifying for the 2013 Australian Grand Prix would see him fail to make it past the first period finishing seventeenth. He would later comment by saying that the Williams team had gone backwards with the development of the FW35.



Despite recent tests showing that the FW35 appeared to be an improvement the performance of the car in the lead up to qualifying has not been very positive.



"I think we're back to the condition of two years ago in the team," said Maldonado.



"We need to work very hard to solve the problems.



"The car is undriveable at the moment and we need to work. That's it."



"For whatever reason, we didn't adapt our car to this track, whatever the conditions," he said.



"In the wet we were slow, in the dry as well."



"The pace for tomorrow seems to be much better but qualifying pace is really bad," Maldonado said.