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Villeneuve and Williams found themselves back on track in both the driver’s and constructor’s championships this weekend despite a lacklustre performance from both. There was, without any doubt, only one star of the weekend and that was the World Champion, Damon Hill, showing the sort of form that had seen him win this race twice before. Unfortunately for Hill, but […]
Read moreFrank Williams said that he wasn’t interested in the 100th win for the team – each win being important. But you suspect that he must have been pleased to see his team pass this important figure some eighteen years after the first win on the same circuit. The win however was a could only be described as a lucky one […]
Read moreThe fact that both Williams cars finished in the points will be of no consolation to anyone at the team – especially to drivers Jacques Villeneuve and Heinz-Harald Frentzen or, more significantly, to Frank Williams and Patrick Head. Only Frentzen could come away feeling that he had done a reasonable job, finishing second to Schumacher. Villeneuve meanwhile had a miserable […]
Read moreYet another race goes by without both cars finishing let alone finishing in the top six. Local boy Villeneuve lucked out on pole by the slimmest of margins and then went out early in the race, while Frentzen blew any chances he had by ruining a set of tyres early on. Schumacher led the field away from Villeneuve. Frentzen was, […]
Read moreAll Williams eyes were on the skies immediately before the race – there was talk of rain. Not at the start though, about half-an-hour into the race. What had the Williams weatherman suggested? Perhaps the Williams duo would start on wets while the rest of the field started on slick – just in case. Whatever the advice Williams were not […]
Read moreHeinz-Harald Frentzen, in Argentina, predicted that the season for him would start at Imola, he wasn’t wrong, taking his first Grand Prix victory in fine style beating Michael Schumacher to the flag. Qualifying was the usual Williams 1-2 with Villeneuve in his usual pole position. Some interesting names made up the top six as the quick Jordan duo of Ralf […]
Read moreSo was Villeneuve just toying with Irvine at the end or have the competition started to catch-up with Williams Renault? Once again Villeneuve was in sparkling form on the track. Off track he was feeling decidedly unwell. Frentzen too was not well, having to take oxygen at the end of each practice session. Under the circumstances it was therefore a […]
Read moreJacques Villeneuve made it past the first corner this week – but only just. A minor mishap at the beginning did not stop Villeneuve taking his first win of the season and projecting him to the top of the points table. It was a different story for Frentzen who had a lacklustre weekend finishing only 9th – one place below […]
Read more1996 was a typical Williams year – one of championships and controversy. A year in which the team equalled the record, previously held by Ferrari, of constructors’ championships won and also let yet another world champion go. The year started with another change of driver as well as a move from the teams old Didcot base to the new state-of-the-art […]
Read morePrincess Anne met the man who runs a world-beating motor racing team from his wheelchair when she officially opened the new home of Williams Grand Prix Engineering in Grove. And more than 100,000 was raised for the team’s official charity The Spinal Injuries Association, of which she is patron, at a private charity auction conducted by the TV presenter Chris […]
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