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Williams entered the 2024 Formula 1 season aiming to build on the modest progress of 2023 under new team principal James Vowles with cautious optimism and a hefty chunk of realism about being a midfield runner rather than a contender for wins or titles. The team’s FW46 carried a striking Read more…

Everyone remembers the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship finale at Interlagos in Brazil, when Felipe Massa (who would later drive for Williams) – for all of about half a minute – thought he’d done enough to take that year’s World crown, before Britain’s Lewis Hamilton slithered by Timo Glock on Read more…

On the back of a great Dutch Grand Prix, in which Alex Albon qualified a season’s best 4th, and finished the race 8th, Williams Racing arrived at Monza – F1’s ‘Cathedral of Speed’ – with high hopes for another strong race in Italy. In their 2023 car – the FW45 Read more…

Brazilian Nelson Piquet was already a two time Formula 1 World Champion when he arrived at Williams at the end of the 1986 season, replacing the outgoing Keke Rosberg who’d chosen to jump ship to McLaren rather than partner Briton Nigel Mansell having heard about his difficult nature. (prematurely he’d Read more…

Formula 1’s Summer break, when teams close their factories and their employees enjoy a hard earned break, is an ideal time to reflect on the first half of the 2023 season for Williams Racing and take stock of what’s gone well, and what’s proved to be more of a challenge Read more…

Williams Racing has launched the Williams FW45 – its 2023 F1 challenger ahead of its first shakedown test of the season at Silverstone later today. The pre-pre-season has been given the name ‘launch season’ by F1 marketing bods keen to wring every drop of content out of a sport that Read more…

Williams Racing has appointed former Mercedes head of strategy James Vowles as its new Team Principal. He replaces the outgoing Jost Capito who was booted by the team in December after a lacklustre 2022 F1 season amid reports of widespread internal doubts over whether the German’s philosophy was taking the Read more…

There’s no getting away from it, the 2022 Formula 1 season has been a disappointment for Williams Racing. And it looks like a season destined to end with a whimper as the team’s focus shifts to 2023 and a ensuring that car and campaign is much improved if the Brazilian Read more…

Formula 1 arrived in Mexico City for the 2022 Mexican Grand Prix in the midst of yet another controversy, when it was revealed that 2021 F1 drivers’ title winners Red Bull Racing exceeded the cost cap in their championship year by a couple of million quid. For this, it was Read more…