Williams Competing, legally called Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, is a British Solution One group and fabricator. It was founded 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 Automobiles (which later came to be Wolf–-- Williams Competing in 1976). The team 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 group ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams started producing its very own autos 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 racked up the team's 100th race triumph, making Williams one of only five teams in Solution One, alongside Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Racing to win 100 races. Williams won 9 Constructors' Champions in between 1980 and 1997. This was a record until Ferrari won its tenth champion in 2000. Noteworthy vehicle drivers 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, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those that have actually won the champion with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve defended their title while still with the team; as Piquet transferred to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART collection after winning the 1992 champion, Prost retired after winning the 1993 champion, and Hillside moved to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Chauffeurs' Champions took place to win one more champion after their success with Williams. Williams have actually collaborated with numerous engine manufacturers, the majority of successfully with Renault, winning 5 of their 9 Constructors' titles with the firm. Along with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is among a group of 5 groups that won every Builders' Champion between 1979 and 2008 and every Motorists' Championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams additionally has organization passions past Formula One. They have developed Williams Advanced Design and Williams Crossbreed Power, who take modern technology initially created for Solution One and adjust it for commercial applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was offered to GKN. In Might 2020, Williams announced they were looking for purchasers for a section of the team because of bad monetary performance in 2019 and that they had actually ended the agreement of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was obtained by Dorilton Funding. Frank and Claire Williams stepped down from being Manager and Replacement Supervisor of the group on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their respective placements.
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