Thursday, June 14, 2007

william

Base: Grove, UK
Drivers: N Rosberg
A Wurz
Test Drivers: N Karthikeyan
K Nakajima
Chassis: FW29
Engine: Toyota RVX-07
Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza
First Season: 1975
World Championships: 9
Highest race finish: 1 (x113)
Pole Positions: 125
Fastest Laps: 129
2006 Disappointing season sees team finish eighth in standings. Cosworth-powered package shows early promise, including fastest lap at Bahrain season opener, but challenge quickly fades. Twenty DNFs, with best results two sixth places for Mark Webber.
2005 Finish fifth in standings then bid farewell to engine partners BMW and Nick Heidfeld, who, after scoring his maiden pole, misses last five races through illness/injury. Best result Monaco, with both drivers on podium.
2004 Ralf Schumacher misses six races after fracturing spine in Indy accident. Replaced by Marc Gene and then Antonio Pizzonia. Team ditch radical 'walrus' front wing after disappointing start to season. End it on high with victory in Brazil. Fourth in standings.
2003 Dramatic improvement in form in the second half of the season with four race wins. Finish second to Ferrari in the standings after losing final-race showdown.
2000 Despite winning races, unable to mount a serious championship challenge to the dominant Ferrari team.
1997 Jacques Villeneuve takes his first and only drivers' dhampionship and Williams take the constructors' crown for a ninth time.
1996 Damon Hill wins the drivers' championship for Williams and the team take their eighth constructors' title.
1994 Williams suffer their first fatality when Ayrton Senna is killed at Imola. In a sombre season the team wins the constructors' championship.
1993 Alain Prost wins his fourth drivers' championship and announces his retirement from the sport.
1992 Nigel Mansell wins the first five rounds of the season and he and the team go on to take both drivers' and constructors' titles. Mansell then leaves the sport to compete in IndyCar.
1986 Team owner Frank Williams is seriously injured in a road-car accident. In typically determined fashion, he continues to lead the team.
1980 Alan Jones wins the drivers' championship and Williams takes the constructors' title.
1979 Clay Regazzoni wins the British Grand Prix to give Williams their first Formula One victory.
1978 Williams Grand Prix Engineering founded. Alan Jones is signed to drive for the team.
1975 Williams team's debut season. Six constructors' championship points give them ninth position overall.

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