Williams Racing, lawfully called Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, is a British Formula One group and manufacturer. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The group was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 operation, Frank Williams Racing Automobiles (which later came to be 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 team ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams began manufacturing its very own automobiles the list below 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 group's 100th race triumph, making Williams among just five teams in Formula One, along with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Competing to win 100 races. Williams won nine Erectors' Champions between 1980 and 1997. This was a record up until Ferrari won its tenth champion in 2000. Remarkable drivers for Williams consist of: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, 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, Hillside, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the team. Of those that have actually won the champion with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve safeguarded their title while still with the group; as Piquet moved to Lotus after winning the 1987 champion; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART collection after winning the 1992 champion, 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 championship after their success with Williams. Williams have actually collaborated with numerous engine producers, most efficiently with Renault, winning five of their 9 Builders' titles with the company. In addition to Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a team of 5 teams that won every Constructors' Champion between 1979 and 2008 and every Chauffeurs' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams likewise has business rate of interests beyond Solution One. They have developed Williams Advanced Design and Williams Hybrid Power, who take technology initially established for Formula One and adjust it for industrial applications. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power was marketed to GKN. In May 2020, Williams revealed they were seeking purchasers for a section of the group as a result of bad economic performance in 2019 and that they had terminated the agreement of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was gotten by Dorilton Funding. 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 particular settings.
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