I might be a bit late to the #10yearchallenge party, but I thought I’d do a little comparison of the Williams team of ten years ago and the Williams team now. There’s no doubt that a lot has changed in that time – there have been nine cars between the Read more…
The date was 11th May 2001 and it was practice for the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix at the A1 Ring (now the Red Bull Ring). Juan Pablo Montoya was three months into his debut Formula 1 season with the Williams Team, and clearly hadn’t received the memo that F1 Read more…
Dearest Mikhail, Re. your comments. Williams Racing are a team with a rich heritage. In almost 700 races in Formula 1 they have won 114 times (behind only Ferrari and McLaren), they’ve won nine Formula 1 Constructors Championships (second only to Ferrari) and have carried seven drivers to the Formula Read more…
In an interview with Autosport, Paddy Lowe has admitted the Williams team began internally assessing and improving its working practices and restructuring its workforce in early 2018, but that the team prefers to keep its endeavours out of the glare of the media. We live in an age when every Read more…
The Hungarian Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 17 round 1997 Formula 1 season and the battle between Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher and Williams’ Jacques Villeneuve was poised nicely. It was a battle that had swung one way, and then the other since the opening round in Australia. Going Read more…
In news that the entire world of Formula 1 will be delighted to hear, three times F1 world champion Niki Lauda has been discharged from hospital in Vienna where he had been in intensive care whilst undergoing treatment for flu following a double lung transplant in the summer of 2018. Read more…
Dates of every round of the 2019 Formula 1 season, with venue and local start-times for your diary. Round Grand Prix Venue Date of race Race Start (local) Race Start (UK) 1 Australia Melbourne 17th March 16:10 05:10 2 Bahrain Sakhir 31st March 18.10 16.10 3 China Shanghai 14th April Read more…
I mean, he would though wouldn’t he? Williams new-boy George Russell, two months from making his Formula 1 debut in the 2019 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix on March 17th is part of the Mercedes junior driver programme and is still contracted to Toto Wolff and the Mercedes F1 Team. Read more…
Williams Racing finds itself in a Formula 1 ‘void’ created by the recent partnering up of manufacturers and smaller teams to create an A/B team business model according to ex-Williams driver and now Sky TV pundit and commentator Martin Brundle. Speaking at Autosport International, Brundle said: “[In F1] You either need Read more…
Williams Racing’s former driver Lance Stroll says the 2018 Formula 1 season was a season spent ‘firefighting’ due to the fallibilities of the Williams FW41 that made racing teams around them virtually impossible. Williams finished the season in their worst ever championship finishing position, falling way short of pre-season expectations Read more…
