Williams Competing, lawfully known as Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Formula One group and builder. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 procedure, Frank Williams Racing Automobiles (which later on ended up being Wolf–-- Williams Competing in 1976). The team is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) site. The team's first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new group ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams started producing its very own automobiles 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 scored the team's 100th race triumph, making Williams among just 5 groups in Solution One, together with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Racing to win 100 races. Williams won 9 Fitters' Championships in between 1980 and 1997. This was a record until Ferrari won its tenth champion in 2000. Noteworthy chauffeurs 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, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. 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 champion; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART series after winning the 1992 champion, Prost retired after winning the 1993 championship, and Hill relocated to Arrows after winning the 1996 championship. None of Williams's Motorists' Champions took place to win an additional championship after their success with Williams. Williams have actually collaborated with numerous engine suppliers, most effectively with Renault, winning 5 of their 9 Fitters' titles with the business. Along with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is one of a team of 5 groups that won every Erectors' Championship between 1979 and 2008 and every Drivers' Championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams likewise has business rate of interests past Formula One. They have actually established Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Hybrid Power, that take innovation originally created for Formula One and adjust it for business applications. In April 2014, Williams Hybrid Power was sold to GKN. In Might 2020, Williams revealed they were looking for purchasers for a part of the group as a result of bad financial efficiency in 2019 which they had actually ended the agreement of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was gotten by Dorilton Funding. Frank and Claire Williams stepped 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 positions.
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