The 2021 Formula 1 season kicked off on Sunday in the Persian Gulf, the opening round having switched from Melbourne to Bahrain after the Australian State opted to err on the side of COVID caution and move its Grand Prix to later in the year when the threat of the Read more…
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Williams’ 2021 challenger, the FW43B, is due to be officially launched at 2pm today. With it, comes a funky new use of technology, as users can download an augmented reality (AR) app and virtually place the Williams FW43B anywhere in their home – be it their living room, on their Read more…
W-Series champion Jamie Chadwick will remain in her role as Williams development driver for a third year, it has been announced. The Briton – who won the female-only series in 2019, its one and only season after its second fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 – will continue Read more…
Yesterday I happened across an article on welshgrandprix.wordpress.com that listed every driver to have tested a Williams Grand Prix car since the team’s inception in 1977, and it makes for some interesting reading! Firstly, there’s the fact that Williams have had more drivers take the wheel of one of their Read more…
BWT – Austrian manufacturer of water treatment systems – was, up until this year, title sponsor of the Racing Point Formula 1 Team. However, that deal came to an abrupt end with Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll’s acquisition of Aston Martin, and the subsequent rebranding of the Formula 1 team Read more…
Williams has completed a shakedown test of their 2021 challenger at a moist Silverstone, some 15 days ahead of the car’s official launch on March 15th. Williams are the second team to give their new car a run out, after McLaren did a similar shakedown on Tuesday. The test, officially Read more…
Current Williams driver and many people’s pick for Britain’s best chance of a successor to Lewis Hamilton George Russell turns 23 today. Born in Kings Lynn in 1998 (which means he hadn’t yet been born when Jacques Villeneuve won Williams’ last World Championship in 1997 – does that make you Read more…
Williams are the latest Formula 1 team to announce the launch date of their 2021 challenger – the Williams FW43B – ahead of the forthcoming F1 season that is planned to begin on the 26th of March in Bahrain. On 5th March 2021 Williams will unveil the car it hopes Read more…
With Renault losing McLaren’s custom to Mercedes for the 2021 Formula 1 season, the French manufacturer finds itself as the only engine manufacturer in F1 without a customer team (Mercedes supplies McLaren, Williams and Aston Martin, Ferrari: Alfa Romeo and Haas and Honda: Red Bull and Alpha Tauri). Not only Read more…
2009 World champion Jenson Button has announced that he is to return to the Williams Formula 1 Team – the team with whom he made his Formula 1 debut – as Senior Advisor. Whilst it’s not immediately clear what Button’s new role will actually involve, it’s widely thought that Williams Read more…
