Williams Competing, legally known as Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Solution One team and fabricator. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The group was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier not successful F1 operation, Frank Williams Racing Autos (which later became 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 new group ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams started making its very own cars and trucks the following year, and Clay Regazzoni won Williams's initial 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 just 5 groups in Solution One, along with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Competing to win 100 races. Williams won 9 Erectors' Championships between 1980 and 1997. This was a document up until Ferrari won its tenth champion in 2000. Noteworthy drivers for Williams consist of: 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, Hillside, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those that have won the champion with Williams, just Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve defended their title while still with the team; as Piquet relocated to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to contend in the CART collection 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 Drivers' Champions went on to win another champion after their success with Williams. Williams have collaborated with numerous engine producers, many successfully with Renault, winning five of their nine Fabricators' titles with the business. Together with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a team of 5 groups that won every Constructors' Champion in between 1979 and 2008 and every Chauffeurs' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams also has organization rate of interests beyond Solution One. They have developed Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power, that take modern technology originally developed for Formula One and adjust it for business applications. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power was sold to GKN. In Might 2020, Williams introduced they were seeking purchasers for a portion of the team due to poor financial performance in 2019 and that they had terminated the contract of title sponsor ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was obtained by Dorilton Capital. Frank and Claire Williams tipped 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 settings.
.