Williams Competing, lawfully known as Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Formula One team and builder. It was founded by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was developed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier not successful F1 operation, Frank Williams Competing Automobiles (which later came to be Wolf–-- Williams Racing 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 brand-new team ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams began producing its 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 success, making Williams among only five groups in Solution One, along with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Competing to win 100 races. Williams won nine Producers' Champions between 1980 and 1997. This was a document up until Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Notable motorists 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 vehicle drivers, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hillside, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those that have won the championship with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve protected their title while still with the group; as Piquet relocated to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to contend in the CART series after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hill relocated to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Vehicle drivers' Champions went on to win one more champion after their success with Williams. Williams have actually worked with many engine makers, many effectively with Renault, winning five of their 9 Manufacturers' titles with the firm. In addition to Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a group of five teams that won every Producers' Championship in between 1979 and 2008 and every Chauffeurs' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams additionally has business passions past Solution One. They have developed Williams Advanced Design and Williams Crossbreed Power, that take modern technology initially developed for Formula One and adjust it for industrial applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was sold to GKN. In Might 2020, Williams revealed they were looking for buyers for a part of the team because of bad monetary efficiency in 2019 which they had actually terminated the contract of title sponsor ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was acquired by Dorilton Resources. Frank and Claire Williams tipped down from being Supervisor and Deputy Manager of the group on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their respective positions.
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