Williams Competing, lawfully called Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Formula One team and erector. It was started by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was created in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier not successful F1 operation, Frank Williams Competing Cars and trucks (which later ended up being Wolf–-- Williams Racing 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 brand-new team ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams started producing its very own vehicles 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 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 nine Builders' Championships between 1980 and 1997. This was a record until Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Notable drivers for Williams include: 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 drivers, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill, 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 defended their title while still with the team; as Piquet relocated to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART series after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hillside relocated to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Vehicle drivers' Champions went on to win another champion after their success with Williams. Williams have worked with numerous engine makers, many effectively with Renault, winning five of their 9 Manufacturers' titles with the company. Together with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a team of five groups that won every Producers' Championship between 1979 and 2008 and every Motorists' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams additionally has service rate of interests past Solution One. They have established Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power, who take technology initially created for Solution One and adjust it for industrial applications. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power was marketed to GKN. In May 2020, Williams introduced they were seeking buyers for a portion of the team as a result of bad monetary efficiency in 2019 and that they had actually terminated the agreement of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was gotten by Dorilton Resources. Frank and Claire Williams stepped down from being Supervisor and Deputy Manager of the team on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their particular settings.
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