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…
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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…
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…
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…
The 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix signalled the end of a pitiful season for Williams, and the last for their lame duck FW42. Despite an enormous amount of work behind the scenes by everyone at the Williams factory at Grove and trackside to develop the car throughout the season, the Read more…
Current Williams Formula 1 reserve driver Nicholas Latifi will drive for the team full time in 2020 it has been announced. It has long been anticipated that the 24 year old Canadian would replace outgoing Robert Kubica for next year, having completed five FP1 outings in 2019, and a sixth Read more…
Williams driver George Russell says he’s learned a lot from team mate Robert Kubica – veteran of six Formula 1 seasons – in his rookie year in the sport. Russell, who graduated from Formula 2 as champion at the end of 2018, and who is part of the Mercedes F1 Read more…
