Williams FW15C: Nobody's done it better
The writing was on the wall during 1992 when Williams forged ahead with active technology. But its 1993 FW15C took things to a whole new level, arguably one the sport has never again reached. Adam Cooper talks to those who helped create it
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Taken from Motor sport, November 2023
Thirty years after Alain Prost won the 1993 Formula 1 world championship the Williams FW15C remains the most advanced F1 car ever to race, perhaps challenged only by the McLaren MP4/8 that was its main rival that season.
The title was Prost’s fourth, lifting him clear of arch-rival Ayrton Senna’s three and one behind Juan Manuel Fangio’s five. Such was his dominance, Prost secured the title early, in September, and in the wake of the sabbatical he’d been forced to take after leaving Ferrari under a cloud. Perhaps he had a point to prove in 1993.