Williams Competing, legally referred to as Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, is a British Solution One team and builder. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 procedure, Frank Williams Racing Autos (which later became Wolf–-- Williams Racing in 1976). The group is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) website. The group's initial race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new team ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams started making its own cars the following year, and Clay Regazzoni won Williams's first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Jacques Villeneuve scored the group's 100th race success, making Williams one of just five groups in Solution One, alongside Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Competing to win 100 races. Williams won nine Fitters' Championships in between 1980 and 1997. This was a document until Ferrari won its tenth champion in 2000. Notable motorists for Williams include: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hillside, David Coulthard, Jenson Button, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Riccardo Patrese, Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Reutemann, Felipe Massa and Jacques Villeneuve. Of these motorists, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those who have actually won the champion with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve safeguarded their title while still with the group; as Piquet relocated to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to compete in the CART series after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 champion, and Hill relocated to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Drivers' Champions took place to win another championship after their success with Williams. Williams have collaborated with lots of engine manufacturers, most effectively with Renault, winning 5 of their nine Producers' titles with the firm. Together with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a team of 5 teams that won every Builders' Championship in between 1979 and 2008 and every Drivers' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams additionally has company rate of interests past Formula One. They have developed Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Crossbreed Power, that take innovation initially established for Formula One and adjust it for business applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was sold to GKN. In May 2020, Williams introduced they were looking for customers for a part of the team because of poor economic efficiency in 2019 which they had terminated the agreement of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was obtained by Dorilton Funding. Frank and Claire Williams stepped down from being Supervisor and Replacement Supervisor of the group on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their particular settings.
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