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Dearest Mikhail, Re. your comments. Williams Racing are a team with a rich heritage. In almost 700 races in Formula 1 they have won 114 times (behind only Ferrari and McLaren), they’ve won nine Formula 1 Constructors Championships (second only to Ferrari) and have carried seven drivers to the Formula Read more…

In an interview with Autosport, Paddy Lowe has admitted the Williams team began internally assessing and improving its working practices and restructuring its workforce in early 2018, but that the team prefers to keep its endeavours out of the glare of the media. We live in an age when every Read more…

In news that the entire world of Formula 1 will be delighted to hear, three times F1 world champion Niki Lauda has been discharged from hospital in Vienna where he had been in intensive care whilst undergoing treatment for flu following a double lung transplant in the summer of 2018. Read more…

Dates of every round of the 2019 Formula 1 season, with venue and local start-times for your diary. Round Grand Prix Venue Date of race Race Start (local) Race Start (UK) 1 Australia Melbourne 17th March 16:10 05:10 2 Bahrain Sakhir 31st March 18.10 16.10 3 China Shanghai 14th April Read more…

I mean, he would though wouldn’t he? Williams new-boy George Russell, two months from making his Formula 1 debut in the 2019 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix on March 17th is part of the Mercedes junior driver programme and is still contracted to Toto Wolff and the Mercedes F1 Team. Read more…

Williams Racing finds itself in a Formula 1 ‘void’ created by the recent partnering up of manufacturers and smaller teams to create an A/B team business model according to ex-Williams driver and now Sky TV pundit and commentator Martin Brundle. Speaking at Autosport International, Brundle said: “[In F1] You either need Read more…

Williams Racing’s former driver Lance Stroll says the 2018 Formula 1 season was a season spent ‘firefighting’ due to the fallibilities of the Williams FW41 that made racing teams around them virtually impossible. Williams finished the season in their worst ever championship finishing position, falling way short of pre-season expectations Read more…

My latest quality eBay purchase (or ‘racing car tat’ as my wife prefers to call it) is the official FIA review of the 1990 Formula 1 season – a steal at just £5 plus £2.80 p&p. Flicking through its 100 pages packed with photos of glorious Formula 1 cars from Read more…

We all know that Williams Grand Prix engineering was founded in 1977 by Sir Frank Williams and Sir Patrick Head, and that the first car they produced together was the Williams FW06. But why start at six? What happened to Williams FW cars numbered 01 to 05? Sir Frank’s involvement Read more…