The Grove-based outfit made plenty of headlines on Tuesday. First the team announced that technical director Sam Michael and chief aerodynamicist Jon Tomlinson will leave when their contracts expire at the end of the season and Mike Coughlan will take over as chief engineer in June.

Later in the day Parr confirmed that he offered to resign and also revealed that Head, who started the team with Frank Williams in 1977, planned to retire some time his year.

"Patrick has made it clear that he will be retiring this year, so at some point this year that will happen," Parr said at a press conference.

"That's nothing to do with the restructuring, it's just the fact that he's turning 65 and had already signalled that it's time for him to move on to his next set of interests in life."

Head, though, feels Parr should not have been the one to make the news public.

"What you are telling me is news to me. I wasn't aware that Adam had said that," Head is quoted in The Guardian.

"He wasn't in a position to make that statement. My plans are not in the public domain and they will only be when I make my own statement later in the year."

An insider added to the paper that Michael and Tomlinson are scapegoats for Williams' current woes.

"There are a few things wrong at Williams at the moment and Sam and Jon are little more than scapegoats. Sam is a good man who was overworked, though he probably should have appointed better people around him," the source said.