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The Williams 40th anniversary celebrations have seen a wide variety of things taking place including a display of past and present machinery at Silverstone to the release of a Williams version of Monopoly. As part of this has also seen the release of a film called, simply, Williams. I went to see it and if you are a Williams fan […]
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The 2017 Spanish Grand Prix marked 40 years of Williams in F1. In 1977 Frank Williams and Patrick Head ran a March 761, driven by Patrick Neve. The Belgium driver finished 12th one place higher than Felipe Massa in this years race. To be more precise it was 40 years in the current guise of Williams Grand Prix Engineering. This […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Bahrain Grand Prix Williams Advanced Engineering, the technology development arm of the Williams F1 team, has had funding from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to develop batteries for electric cars. Williams gets government grant for electric car battery development From everyone at Williams, […]
Read moreA round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: Pictures from the 2017 Australian Grand Prix 2017 F1 Liveries on Supercars, Part 2 “What we’ve been trying to do with Lance is to make all the routine stuff that a driver has to do during a grand prix weekend – from when he gets in the […]
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The new Williams Mercedes FW38 was unveiled today ahead of the first pre-season test in Barcelona, Spain next week. For a third successive season the iconic red, white and blue stripes of WILLIAMS MARTINI RACING will be lining up on the Formula One grid, with the team looking to build on a successful 2015 season that resulted in four podiums […]
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WILLIAMS MARTINI RACING is pleased to confirm that the partnership of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas will be retained for a third season in the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship. Felipe joined the team for the 2014 season and has so far scored one pole position, at the 2014 Austrian Grand Prix, and four podium finishes. His experience of […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “He is a good guy who can be tempting for many – but Williams are the third force in the championship, and they aim to be on the podium at every race, so there is no reason to leave” Toto Wolff Bottas has “no reason to leave” […]
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A round-up of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: “Looking that they (Ferrari) had this upgrade on the engine and the difference is still similar, I think it shows that we can still fight” – Felipe Massa Time for Williams to put pressure on Ferrari – Felipe Massa Just as he finished measuring the front rocker, […]
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A roundup of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: [I]n China, Williams suddenly took a step forward in the power stakes — perhaps in a bid to give the works team a buffer between it and the chasing Ferraris. Mercedes helped Williams catch Ferrari? “I think one of the biggest changes that I have seen in […]
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A roundup of interesting Williams related stories found on the web this week: That leaves one big question mark lingering: what’s going on with the team that came closest to beating Mercedes on merit in 2014? Is Williams’s absence from the top of the timesheets because it’s the darkest horse in the pitlane or because it’s failed to push on […]
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