Williams Competing, lawfully known as Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Formula One team and producer. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The group was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 operation, Frank Williams Racing Cars and trucks (which later came to be Wolf–-- Williams Competing in 1976). The group is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) site. The team's very first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the brand-new group ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams began manufacturing its own automobiles the following year, and Clay Regazzoni won Williams's very first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Jacques Villeneuve racked up the team's 100th race victory, making Williams one of only five teams in Formula One, along with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Racing to win 100 races. Williams won 9 Builders' Champions between 1980 and 1997. This was a record till Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Remarkable chauffeurs for Williams include: 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 chauffeurs, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hillside, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the team. 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 moved to Lotus after winning the 1987 champion; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART collection after winning the 1992 champion, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hill moved to Arrows after winning the 1996 champion. None of Williams's Drivers' Champions took place to win one more champion after their success with Williams. Williams have actually collaborated with numerous engine suppliers, a lot of effectively with Renault, winning 5 of their nine Erectors' titles with the firm. In addition to Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a team of 5 groups that won every Fabricators' Championship between 1979 and 2008 and every Drivers' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams also has company interests past Formula One. They have actually developed Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power, that take innovation originally created for Solution One and adapt it for commercial applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was marketed to GKN. In May 2020, Williams revealed they were looking for buyers for a portion of the group because of poor financial performance in 2019 which they had ended the contract of title sponsor ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was obtained by Dorilton Resources. Frank and Claire Williams stepped down from being Supervisor and Replacement Supervisor of the team on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their corresponding positions.
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