Williams Racing, legally referred to as Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, is a British Solution One group and producer. It was founded by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The group was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 operation, Frank Williams Competing Autos (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 group's first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new group ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams began making its own vehicles the list below year, and Clay Regazzoni won Williams's first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Jacques Villeneuve racked up the group's 100th race success, making Williams among just five groups in Formula One, along with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Competing to win 100 races. Williams won 9 Manufacturers' Championships in between 1980 and 1997. This was a document up until Ferrari won its tenth champion in 2000. Noteworthy vehicle 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 chauffeurs, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the team. Of those that have won the championship with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve protected their title while still with the team; as Piquet transferred to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to compete in the CART collection after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hillside moved to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Motorists' Champions went on to win an additional champion after their success with Williams. Williams have actually worked with lots of engine suppliers, the majority of successfully with Renault, winning 5 of their nine Manufacturers' titles with the company. Along with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is one of a group of five teams that won every Fabricators' Champion in between 1979 and 2008 and every Vehicle drivers' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams additionally has business interests past Solution One. They have actually developed Williams Advanced Design and Williams Crossbreed Power, that take innovation originally created for Solution One and adjust it for commercial applications. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power was offered to GKN. In Might 2020, Williams announced they were looking for purchasers for a part of the team due to bad monetary efficiency in 2019 which they had ended the agreement of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was obtained by Dorilton Capital. Frank and Claire Williams tipped down from being Manager and Replacement Manager of the team on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their respective positions.
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