The 38-year-old Brazilian, who was recently retained by the team for next season, says he's feeling positive about Williams' prospects and thinks they can do better than this year. Barrichello finished 10th in the 2010 drivers' championship with 47 points. "I feel good. I feel that the team is doing a good job on what they're doing for next year," the Brazilian told Autosport's website. "It's an aggressive style - the approach for next year's car seems to be quite aggressive, which is good. I'm up for it, I like it." Even so, Barrichello warned against expecting too much and insisted it is still much too early to tell whether Williams will make a marked improvement. "We can never say that, because if you talked to every team right now they would sell you a winning car for next year," he said. "It's a bit on the fantasy side right now. Some (new cars) are going better, some are going even better. "But ours in the tunnel seems to be going okay. We just need to keep our feet on the ground and work with it." Barrichello, who is about to embark on his 19th season - making him the most experienced driver in F1 history - also believes the improvement Williams showed during the latter stages of this season shows they are on the right track.
"I think the turnaround was after Istanbul, where we sort of got to the bottom of the problem," he added. "There was a change in the characteristic of the downforce coming onto the car, so we had to change the wind tunnel for that, and it made it better. "After that it was an improvement all the way through - bang, bang, bang. Even though it has been very down in terms of results the whole year long, the team conquered a lot and progressed. "We over-performed in qualifying a little bit on new tyres, but we still had pretty decent races."
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