Williams Competing, legitimately called Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, is a British Solution One team and fabricator. It was established by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The team was developed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier unsuccessful F1 operation, Frank Williams Racing Vehicles (which later came to be Wolf–-- Williams Racing in 1976). The team is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) site. The team's initial race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new team ran a March framework for Patrick Nève. Williams started producing 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 scored the group's 100th race success, making Williams among just five groups in Solution One, together with Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Racing to win 100 races. Williams won nine Constructors' Champions between 1980 and 1997. This was a document up until Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Notable motorists 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, Hillside, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the team. Of those who have won the championship with Williams, just Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve protected their title while still with the group; as Piquet relocated to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to complete in the CART collection after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 champion, and Hill transferred to Arrows after winning the 1996 champion. None of Williams's Motorists' Champions went on to win one more champion after their success with Williams. Williams have actually worked with many engine suppliers, many successfully with Renault, winning five of their 9 Builders' titles with the firm. Together with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is just one of a team of 5 teams that won every Builders' Championship in between 1979 and 2008 and every Drivers' Champion from 1984 to 2008. Williams also has business interests past Solution One. They have developed Williams Advanced Engineering and Williams Crossbreed Power, that take technology originally created for Formula One and adjust it for business applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was marketed to GKN. In May 2020, Williams introduced they were looking for purchasers for a part of the team because of poor economic performance in 2019 which they had actually ended the contract of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was obtained by Dorilton Capital. Frank and Claire Williams tipped down from being Supervisor and Deputy Manager of the group on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their particular placements.
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