2020 Williams FW43 No change in the engine/power unit department (Mercedes), title sponsor (ROKiT) or lead driver (George Russell) for 2020, but Robert Kubica made way for Formula 2 runner-up Nicholas Latifi in the second car. The Williams FW43 was Williams’ first car with input from Sir Patrick Head for Read more…
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Williams Deputy Team Principal Claire Williams has told GPToday that her team aren’t defined by the last couple of seasons – a particularly tough 24 months for the Grove outfit more used to being up at the sharp end of the grid than their current form would suggest. Williams’ haul Read more…
Williams co-founder and current consultant engineer Sir Patrick Head admits that he has mixed feelings about the new regulations set to be introduced in 2021 designed to close the gap between the front and the back of the field, and allow closer racing between cars fighting for position, saying they Read more…
Arriving in Formula 1 at the turn of the millennium, St. John’s College Oxford graduate Dave Robson brought with him a wealth of experience in stress analysis and laboratory testing within the steel industry in his native North-East. After joining McLaren as junior stress engineer in 2000, Dave Robson tried Read more…
Having caught the racing bug, Sophie Ogg’s first foray into motorsport operations was work experience, volunteering to help out with events in order to get behind the scenes, learn about the sport and gain as many contacts in the racing world as she could, already thinking about potential careers in Read more…
Williams’ title sponsor ROKiT phones have agreed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the burgeoning W Series that sees the telecoms company become its first major sponsor in its second year of competition. The deal means that, as of next season, ROKiT’s logos will be on all 20 cars and drivers Read more…
Williams Deputy Team Principal Claire Williams insists that the team are continuing to fight for better in 2020 after a ‘brutal’ season resulted in the team’s worst World Championship finish in 42 years. An arduous 2019 has seen the team pick up just a single point from the 21 race Read more…
Born in 1956, Dickie Stanford grew up in Swindon and was first attracted to Formula 1 when he attended the 1968 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch aged 12. On leaving school, Stanford worked for MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries), where he was responsible for stockpiling food in Read more…
Lady Virginia Williams (nee Virginia Berry) met Frank Williams – then a wheeler dealer wannabe Grand Prix team owner in 1967 when she was working as a receptionist in London. ‘Ginny’ as she was better known bought into her then boyfriend Frank’s racing dream from the very beginning, both figuratively Read more…
Following a successful career as a motorcycle mechanic working in Grand Prix motorbike racing (MOTOGP these days) & Superbikes, and then as an engineer in sportscars, Ed Wood (not to be confused with the maverick film director of the same name) decided to return to studying, first attending the University of Read more…
