Williams expected to be further off the pace after tricky F1 test

Latifi and team-mate Alex Albon propped up the timesheets on Friday at the Bahrain International Circuit, finishing half a second off Aston Martin, which was the next-slowest team.

Latifi’s best lap time was 2.5 seconds off pace-setter Max Verstappen’s effort, while Albon was a further two-tenths of a second behind.

Williams finished eighth in last year’s constructors’ championship after scoring its first points in three seasons, and had hoped to take another big…