In May 2020, Williams announced they were seeking buyers for a portion of the team due to poor financial performance in 2019 and that they had terminated the contract of title sponsor ROKiT.
Williams Advanced Engineering had a technology centre in Qatar until it was closed in 2014. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power were sold to GKN. Based in Grove, Oxfordshire, England, Williams has established Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power which take technology originally developed for Formula One and adapt it for commercial applications. Williams F1 also has business interests beyond Formula One racing. Along with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is one of a group of five teams that won every Constructors' Championship between 19 and every Drivers' Championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams have worked with many engine manufacturers, most successfully with Renault, winning five of their nine Constructors' titles with the French company.
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No driver who has won a drivers' title with Williams has managed to again win a title with another team. Piquet moved to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship, Mansell moved to the American-based Indy Cars after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired from racing after his 4th World Championship in 1993, while Hill moved to Arrows after winning in 1996. Of those who have won the championship with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve actually defended their title while still with the team. Each of these drivers, with the exception of Senna, Patrese, Coulthard, Montoya and Button, have won one Drivers' title with the team. This stood as a record until Ferrari surpassed it in 2000.ĭrivers for Williams have included Australia's Alan Jones Finland's Keke Rosberg Britain's Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, David Coulthard and Jenson Button Colombia's Juan Pablo Montoya France's Alain Prost Brazil's Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna Italy's Riccardo Patrese and Canada's Jacques Villeneuve. Williams won nine Constructors' Championships between 19. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Canadian Jacques Villeneuve scored the team's 100th race victory, making Williams one of only four teams in Formula One, alongside Ferrari, fellow British team McLaren, and Mercedes to win 100 races. Williams started manufacturing its own cars the following year, and Switzerland's Clay Regazzoni won Williams' first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. The team's first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new team ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève.
All of Williams F1 chassis are called "FW" then a number, the FW being the initials of team co-founder and original owner, Frank Williams. The team was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams' earlier unsuccessful F1 operation: Frank Williams Racing Cars (which later became Wolf–Williams Racing in 1976). It was founded by former team owner Frank Williams and automotive engineer Patrick Head. Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, currently racing in Formula One as Williams Racing, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. Not to be confused with former Formula One team Frank Williams Racing Cars, formed by Frank Williams in 1967.Ĭoordinates: 51☃7′5″N 1☂4′46″W / 51.61806°N 1.41278°W / 51.61806 -1.41278 Williams-Mercedes
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