Williams Competing, lawfully known as Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Formula One team and fitter. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was created in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 procedure, Frank Williams Racing Automobiles (which later on became Wolf–-- Williams Competing in 1976). The group is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) site. The group's initial race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new team ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams began making its very own autos 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 team's 100th race triumph, making Williams one of just five groups in Formula One, together with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Competing to win 100 races. Williams won nine Fitters' Champions in between 1980 and 1997. This was a document till Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Notable chauffeurs for Williams include: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, 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 chauffeurs, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those who have actually won the championship with Williams, just Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve protected their title while still with the group; as Piquet moved to Lotus after winning the 1987 champion; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART collection after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hillside transferred to Arrows after winning the 1996 champion. None of Williams's Drivers' Champions went on to win another championship after their success with Williams. Williams have actually collaborated with lots of engine suppliers, many effectively with Renault, winning five of their nine Fitters' titles with the business. Together with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is among a team of 5 groups that won every Builders' Championship between 1979 and 2008 and every Vehicle drivers' Championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams additionally has service rate of interests beyond Solution One. They have established Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power, that take modern technology initially created for Solution One and adapt it for commercial applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was offered to GKN. In May 2020, Williams announced they were looking for customers for a portion of the group due to bad economic efficiency in 2019 and that they had terminated the agreement of title sponsor ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was gotten by Dorilton Resources. Frank and Claire Williams tipped 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 particular placements.
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