Williams Racing, lawfully known as Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Solution One team and fabricator. It was founded by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was created in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier not successful F1 procedure, Frank Williams Competing Autos (which later came to be Wolf–-- Williams Competing in 1976). The group is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) website. The group's very first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the brand-new group ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams started making its very own cars the list below year, and Clay Regazzoni won Williams's very first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Jacques Villeneuve scored the team's 100th race victory, making Williams one of just 5 teams in Formula One, alongside Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Racing to win 100 races. Williams won nine Producers' Championships between 1980 and 1997. This was a record until Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Remarkable vehicle drivers for Williams consist of: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hillside, David Coulthard, Jenson Switch, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Riccardo Patrese, Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Reutemann, Felipe Massa and Jacques Villeneuve. Of these drivers, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those that have actually won the championship with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve defended their title while still with the team; as Piquet transferred to Lotus after winning the 1987 champion; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART series after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hill transferred to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Motorists' Champions took place to win another championship after their success with Williams. Williams have dealt with many engine suppliers, many efficiently with Renault, winning 5 of their 9 Erectors' titles with the firm. Together with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is one of a team of five teams that won every Fitters' Champion between 1979 and 2008 and every Motorists' Championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams likewise has business rate of interests beyond Formula One. They have actually developed Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power, that take technology initially created for Formula One and adapt it for business applications. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power was offered to GKN. In May 2020, Williams announced they were seeking buyers for a part of the team due to poor monetary performance in 2019 and that they had actually terminated the contract of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was gotten by Dorilton Resources. Frank and Claire Williams stepped down from being Supervisor and Replacement Manager of the team on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their respective placements.
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