Formula 1 countdown. There are currently just 6 days before the Abu Dhabi Grand prix that signals the end of a wretched 2018 seasons for the Williams Formula 1 team. That Grand Prix will be the last time a Williams FW41 turns a wheel in anger and most likely the Read more…
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On a warm, hazy Tuesday morning in July 1983 at Donington Park, England, young Brazilian Formula 3 sensation Ayrton Senna approached the Formula 1 Williams FW08 awaiting him in the pitlane. He was about to step into a Formula 1 car for the first time, and in doing so, Read more…
“It was about survival“. That was Sergey Sirotkin’s assessment of his 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix after starting 14th but quickly going backwards after the start. The Russian struggled with the handling of his Williams FW41 from the get-go, adding: ‘I felt like I was dancing on ice‘. Both Williams drivers Read more…
Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin escaped an enormous collision with 2018 World Champion Lewis Hamilton in qualifying for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. Russian Sirotkin, enjoying a run out in Q2 for the first time since the Italian Grand Prix in September, was told by the Williams team that his Read more…
Williams fight on into Q2 after Sergey Sirotkin makes it through to the second part of qualifying for the fifth time this season. Having set a time towards the end of Q1, outqualifying his teammate, rain started to fall preventing the majority of drivers, including Lance Stroll, from bettering their Read more…
Formula 1 has announced that its calendar will include a race around the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam for the first time in its history with the 2020 Vietnam Grand Prix. The multi-year deal, first brokered by Bernie Ecclestone, and subsequently closed by Liberty broadens F1’s reach in Asia as they Read more…
Forget 1996, and all the success that brought for Britain’s Damon Hill. The 1994 Japanese Grand Prix, in the mind of this Williams fan, is remembered as Damon’s greatest race. It was also proof, if it were needed (it may have been needed), that he belonged at the same table Read more…
It has been announced that Williams performance engineer Rob Smedley will leave the the team at the end of the current season. Claire Williams said: “He agreed to join us at a time when our performance was low, and we are grateful that he saw the potential for us to Read more…
Another day another driver is introduced to the bunfight for what looks like the sole remaining vacant seat on the Formula 1 grid for 2019. This time it’s Nyck De Vries. Dutchman Nyck De Vries (whose surname translates into English as ‘The Freeze’), currently impressing in F2 where in 2018 Read more…
Australian Alan Jones won Williams’ Formula 1 World Championship in 1980 with the beautifully engineered Williams FW07 that outpaced the might of Team Lotus, Ferrari and Renault in Williams’ third season in the sport. Following in the footsteps of his father Stan – winner of the 1959 Australian Grand Prix, Read more…
