In a bid to alleviate its well-documented money troubles in recent years as the cost of competing in F1 increased, William💎s turned to a number of drivers who brought substantial financial backing, including Pastor Maldonado, Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin.

But fresh investment from new owners Dorilton Capital in the wake of its purchase of Williams la🦄st year has left the Grove-based outfit in a much stronger financial position.

Williams is yet to confirm its 🧸driver line-up for 2022. George Russell appears closer than ever to landing a Mercedes seat, while Nic🐷holas Latifi - who does bring financial backing - is also out of contract at the end of the year.

Capito has already stressed Williams is in no rus🐷h to announce its driver plans and made it clear at the Hungarian GP that it is not looking for candidates who can bring sponsorship.

“I think we at Williams, we are in the position that we solely decide on the drivers,” Capito ﷺexplained. “We are not dependent lཧike in the past on somebody, a driver who brings money.

“We have a long-term plan to get back to the top, and we have to chꦜoose the drivers that fit into that plan. We are just thinking about this. Of course everybody can talk to us, but the decision is with us.”

Williams has been impressed by Latifi’s performances compared to Russell this seaso🐲n despite the fact the Canadian is yet to out-qualify his teammate.

Even befo🍰re Latifi scored his first♒ F1 points with a strong drive to seventh in Hungary, Capito had said he felt there was “no reason not to have him in next year”.

“When you compare him to George, it’s not that big of a difference, especially in the races,” Capito added. “He has good race 𓄧speed, he brings the🐈 car home, he doesn’t make mistakes, he helps the team and is liked by the team.

“And he had a couple of the qualifyings where he had bad lucꦏk with the wind conditions that changed from his run tꦇo George’s run. Our car is very sensitive to the wind conditions where George was just out there when it was really good for our car.

“And then a couple of minutes later when Ni🦋cholas was out, it was ෴the complete opposite. So when we analyse it, this is pretty good so there’s no reason not to have him in next year.”

The likes of Valtteri Bottas, Aston Martin reserve Nico Hulkenberg and newly-crowned Formula E world champion Nyck d🍸e Vries have found the🍨mselves linked with a potential Williams drive for 2022.

“I think every 🦩driver who hasn’t got a fixed seat for next year, or has an option for next year, is tal𒉰king to us at the moment,” Capito said.

💦“It is the most aspired seat in Formuღla 1 right now for a team that has to fill a seat.”