My latest quality eBay purchase (or ‘racing car tat’ as my wife prefers to call it) is the official FIA review of the 1990 Formula 1 season – a steal at just £5 plus £2.80 p&p. Flicking through its 100 pages packed with photos of glorious Formula 1 cars from Read more…
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We all know that Williams Grand Prix engineering was founded in 1977 by Sir Frank Williams and Sir Patrick Head, and that the first car they produced together was the Williams FW06. But why start at six? What happened to Williams FW cars numbered 01 to 05? Sir Frank’s involvement Read more…
At the end of 1999, on the back of third place in the British Formula 3 Championship and a second place at the Macau Grand Prix, a 19-year-old Jenson Button signed a three year contract with Williams for 2000, filling the void left by Alex Zanardi‘s departure. In reality Button Read more…
Formula 1’s Managing Director of motorsport Ross Brawn has given his opinion about the source of Williams’ current struggles. Williams slumped to their worst ever finish in a Formula 1 World Championship in 2018, ending the season bottom of both World Drivers’ and World Constructors’ Championships, amassing a measly seven Read more…
Robert Kubica is quickly approaching his first full season in Formula 1 for eight years, but he isn’t allowing his absence to dull his confidence and enthusiasm ahead of what he knows will be a tough campaign. With the shakeup in aerodynamic regulations for the 2019 F1 season, much of Read more…
Oatley remained at Williams for seven years, becoming race engineer to Regazzoni’s replacement Carlos Reutemann in 1980 and 1981 and then Jacques Laffite when he joined Williams in 1983. “Patrick was a fantastic mentor and gave me a great deal of support. He was very patient and a good, practical Read more…
On leaving Lotus he joined Gary Anderson at Jordan Grand Prix with a view to establishing their R&D department. After two years working in the Jordan factory, Michael joined their test team and subsequently became race engineer for Ralf Schumacher and then Heinz-Harald Frentzen (both former Williams drivers). In 2001 Read more…
On arriving at Williams, one of the many areas Dernie would transform was Williams’ use of computer technology, becoming the first person/team in Formula 1 to design a car using CAD software. His other responsibilities included aerodynamic development, for which he was solely responsible, something that was vastly improved when Read more…
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas has given his support to his former team Williams and the direction they’ve taken after enduring a torrid couple of seasons culminating in a season long struggle with a fundamentally flawed FW41 leaving the team in their worst ever drivers’ and constructors’ championship position. Indeed, Read more…
Zak Brown has supported Williams’ stance to remain independent in an ever changing Formula 1 where many smaller, formerly autonomous teams are partnering with ‘works’ outfits in order to reduce costs, the need for in-house resource and improve performance. They do this in exchange for providing their parent team with Read more…
