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…
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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…
The Williams Formula 1 Team is going through its most radical overhaul in its 44 year history in the wake of Investment firm Dorilton Capital taking the reins from Sir Frank Williams and family in August of last year. We have a new CEO, new team principal, new board members Read more…
For years, one of the most telling signs of Williams Racing’s staunch independence was its refusal to buy in someone else’s gearbox, preferring to make its own in-house, despite it being a costly and resource intense process. It’s one of the things that separated it from the plethora of B-teams Read more…
The radical new regulations designed to make competition in Formula 1 closer set to be introduced this year may have been delayed as a result of the upheaval caused by COVID-19, but Williams still feel there may be an opportunity to make up some ground on the teams around them Read more…
When we look back at the 2020 Formula 1 season in years to come, it’s unlikely our prevailing memories will be of anything that happened on-track. This is especially true if you’re a fan of Williams, for whom this year’s season was a momentous one. The season was due to Read more…
It is with great relief that I hear Sir Frank Williams has been discharged from hospital and is ‘on the mend’ according to a statement released by his family. Having been admitted to hospital earlier in December, it was feared that 78 year old Sir Frank – founder of one Read more…
Jost Capito, former Director of Motorsport at Volkswagen and one-time CEO of McLaren, has joined Williams Racing. The 62 year old German has over 35 years experience of motorsport, working with a number of its most high profile competitors across codes, including Sauber, Ford, Porsche and BMW, along with Volkswagen Read more…
