For years, smaller teams and constructors have been making noise about the cost of running a Formula 1 team being cripplingly and in some cases prohibitively expensive, but it has now escalated to the point where even global manufacturers are starting to feel the heat, raising the gnarly topic of Read more…
Williams’ well-documented struggles this season are primarily due to a combination of inept cooling on their Williams FW41 and an errant update to their wind tunnel resulting in erroneous readings being fed back to the technical team according to Motorsport Magazine’s Mark Hughes. Hughes reckons that Williams underestimated the amount Read more…
2018 is the first season since Formula 1’s inception in 1950 not to feature multiple British drivers. Thankfully for the sport in the UK, that driver just happens to be Lewis Hamilton: One of the fastest, most successful and biggest stars the sport has seen for decades, keeping Formula 1 Read more…
So who is George Russell, Williams’ new star? Born in King’s Lynn in 1998, four months after Williams’ last world title (just let that sink in!), George Russell began karting at the age of eight and in a karting career lasting an unusually lengthy seven years, won multiple national, European Read more…
Of course not! (Don’t you hate misleading clickbait headlines like that?) When searching for Williams F1 on Google though, it gave me a couple of related search options, including ‘Best F1 teams’, where it listed Williams Martini Racing first, obviously, and ‘Old F1 drivers’. Quite who’d search that is beyond Read more…
Britain’s George Russell has been officially announced as a Williams driver for the 2019 Formula 1 season in a multi-year deal. George Russell, 2018 F2 champion elect, needing just the equivalent of two top five finishes at the season finale at Abu Dhabi to seal the title, has spent the Read more…
Ex-Williams driver and all round nice guy David Coulthard is one of a number of high profile F1 stars to throw their weight behind W-Series: an all new women-only racing series. W-Racing aims to help get women into Formula 1 with six 30-minute races over the course of the 2019 Read more…
49 days. That’s all that remains until the end of the 2018 Formula 1 season. It can’t come soon enough for Williams Martini Racing. That’s why the seventh of October has been a success for Williams, not because of their results or performance in today’s Japanese Grand Prix, but because Read more…
Hi If you’re looking for a nice piece of Williams Formula 1 memorabilia to display in your living room or man-cave, look no further than eBay right now, where you can find Jacques Villeneuve’s Williams FW19 rear wing from the 1997 Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. This was the race Read more…
Since its debut in 1987, Suzuka has become a firm favourite among Formula 1 fans and drivers alike. Unique (to F1) in its figure of 8 layout, its high speed corners, changes in elevation and proximity to retaining walls gives the track a ‘proper’ Grand Prix track feel, in an Read more…
