Former Williams driver Robert Kubica has been announced as reserve driver for the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team for 2020 – the team with which he began his F1 journey in 2006. With him goes sponsorship from ORLEN – the Polish petrochemical company that financed his return with Williams – Read more…
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Williams Grand Prix Holdings PLC, the public listed company controlled by the Williams family that owns the Williams Formula 1 team has sold its majority stake in Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) – the technology arm of the business for an undisclosed sum. The Williams Group retain a ‘significant minority’ stake. Read more…
Williams’ George Russell insists he’s happy with how his career is progressing despite a lean debut season in Formula 1. Williams’ poor form has largely prevented Russell from competing with anyone but his team-mate in 2019, but the Kings Lynn born driver sees the achievements of his F2 rivals from Read more…
The 2019 Formula 1 season is one most people connected to the Williams Formula 1 team will be keen to consign to the history books, but we’re not completely done with it quite yet according to Claire Williams, daughter of founder Sir Frank Williams and current Deputy Team Principal of ROKiT Read more…
After an eyecatching first season where he trounced his team-mate Robert Kubica in all but points (Kubica scored a single point for tenth place when both Alfas were disqualified from the German Grand Prix over technical irregularities), most notably 21-0 in qualifying, George Russell knows that there are still areas Read more…
Williams could soon be bolstered by the arrival of another senior member of staff if reports linking Nick Chester, chassis engineer and ex-of Renault are to be believed. Long-term Renault stalwart Chester, first worked with ‘The Enstone Team’ – as they’re often called as a result of their many name Read more…
So it would seem that Dan Ticktum has been given another – arguably his best – opportunity in motorsport, this time with the Williams Formula 1 Team. This is despite a five-year-long mission of self-sabotage that has seen him banned from motor racing, being dumped from the Red Bull junior Read more…
2020 Formula 2 debutant Dan Ticktum has joined the Williams Formula 1 Team as development driver for the forthcoming season. The two-time Macau Grand Prix winner was dropped from Red Bull’s driver programme earlier in 2019 following a string of sub-par results in Japan’s Super Formula where he was competing with Read more…
Last night, in a glitzy ceremony in Aberdeen, Lewis Hamilton lost out to Cricket’s Ben Stokes in the BBC’s flagship sports awards ceremony, SPOTY (Sports Personality of the Year) for the second consecutive year and for the fourth time in total, despite edging closer to becoming the greatest driver Formula Read more…
Born and bred in Normanby, Middlesbrough (another Northerner – Hooray!), Smedley gained a degree in Maths and Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough University in preparation for a career in motorpsort. Specialising in chassis engineering, Smedley’s first role in racing car design was in 1997 with Pilbeam Racing Designs – a Lincolnshire Read more…
