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Williams was in a sorry state compared to its 1990s glory days, but 2023 marked the start of a turnaround, with James Vowles leading the recovery. Now Carlos Sainz is set to join, alongside experienced technical boss Pat Fry and optimism is building…
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Sponsored by Williams remains one of Formula 1’s best-loved teams and will surely prove a popular choice for Scalextric, which has based its first modern-era F1 set for…
Only two other teams have started more grands prix than Williams. Adam Cooper traces the story of one of Formula 1’s great constructors
F1 Retro
Silverstone marked the arrival of Williams as an F1 grand prix winner, writes Mark Hughes. It witnessed dominant victories in the constructor’s glory days and, last weekend, it saw a (temporarily) resurgent team celebrating its imminent 800th GP.
Forty years ago Frank Williams left the company he’d lost and started again – in an old carpet warehouse his friend Dave Brodie had found for him, with a second-hand…
The team that carries his name will race on, but an enormous link to Formula 1’s past was lost yesterday when Sir Frank Williams passed away at the age of…
Williams is one of F1’s most successful teams, but hasn’t won in a long time – its principal James Vowles explains why the approach of Frank and Patrick won’t work in the modern age, and how he’s doing things differently
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• Magnatraction system for extra traction and downforce
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It’s July 1988 and I’m at Brands Hatch, waiting impatiently between Druids and Graham Hill Bend for the manic pack of RS500 Cosworths, E30 M3s and assorted Class C and…
What comes to mind when you think of the greatest competition car ever – the McLaren MP4/4? The Ferrari 500? Porsche 956/962? Or is it an everyday family car that…
It was a rush job, putting it mildly. Demand from teams wishing to convert race Cosworths to RS500 specification was overwhelming and the process couldn’t start until Ford had built…
When Ford invited motoring writers to drive the Sierra RS Cosworth in Spain last December, the occasion immediately passed into lore. Nobody was prepared for so much excitement and for…
In most branches of professional motor sport, the man who is doing the driving is not the same as the man who is doing the engineering back at the workshop.…
Here’s a question to furrow the brow of even the most ardent fan of late 1980s tin-top racing. In total, how many racing Sierra RS500 Cosworths did Ford build? The…
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• Magnatraction system for extra traction and downforce
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