Tricky one, this. There are many people who think that one of the duties of Team Principal, as leader, is to accept ultimate responsibility for performance and results, irrespective of who they are, or what they’ve achieved in the past. This is certainly the case in the majority of Formula Read more…
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2020 Williams new-boy Nicholas Latifi has chosen the #6 (six) – the number he raced last year in F2 – as his race number for the season ahead, and for the duration of what he hopes is a lengthy Formula 1 career. Number six was last used in Formula 1 Read more…
Okay, okay, that headline is slightly facetious, but it’s not a million miles away from the outrageous claims a number of F1 news sources have been guilty of making this week. Apparently, a number of guys at Williams’ HQ have been impressed with the work Dan Ticktum has been doing Read more…
The early part of 2019 was an unmitigated disaster for Williams. As revealed by Williams Deputy Team Principal Claire Williams in Tel Aviv earlier this week repeated crash test failures by their all-new FW42 led to the exposure of flaws in its design/build processes which in turn resulted in the Read more…
Now, I like Rob Smedley. He’s a direct Northerner (a fellow direct Northerner!) and he says what he thinks. When he’s asked a question, you know that he’s going to answer it and not try and deploy media mind-tricks to skirt around the issue before the person to whom he’s Read more…
Williams has announced Israeli driver Roy Nissany will be their official test driver driver for the 2020 Formula 1 season. Along with a rookie test day and sim work, Nissany will take the wheel of a Williams FW43 in three FP1s over the course of the season. Nissany will become Read more…
Williams’ poor form in 2019 may have actually helped young driver George Russell‘s career progression according to ex-Williams driver turned TV pundit David Coulthard. While many talented youngsters find themselves thrown into a top team as soon as they show the slightest glimpse of potential & forced to cope with Read more…
Former Frank Williams Racing Cars driver Tom Belso has died after a long battle with stomach cancer. Tom Belso, ‘The Smiling Dane’ was Denmark’s first Formula 1 driver. He began his motor racing career in touring cars in his native Scandinavia where he would become 1969 Scandinavian Champion in a Read more…
After unexpectedly arriving late to pre-season testing in February of last year, Williams suffered their worst season in Formula 1 to date, registering just a single point in the entire campaign, never quite recovering from that stuttering start. Claire Williams, Williams’ Deputy Team Principal has now revealed that failures in Read more…
Recently, Formula 1 World champion Lewis Hamilton and nine-time motorcycle World Champion Valentino Rossi exchanged machinery as part of promotional event at the Circuit Riccardo Tormo in Valencia organised by mutual sponsor Monster Energy Drinks (other energy drinks are available). Rossi took to the track to do a number of Read more…
