WilliamsF1's TOP 10 by Jonathan Williams - No. 3

And so we face the final three in Jonny Williams' list of all-time favourite WilliamsF1 GPs. Flashback to Zandvoort, Holland, 1979, and that glorious summer for Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Patrick Head's new ground effect FW07-Cosworth is a world-beater and both Alan Jones and Clay Regazzoni are potential winners of every race.

JW was only four when the Williams family made their annual trip to the seaside resort of Zandvoort, but he remembers clearly his Mum finding a spot for him in a Renault trackside enclosure and Alan Jones, who was on the pole, waving to him as he pulled up on the grid. This video features amazing, little-seen 8mm film of the 1979 Dutch GP paddock area courtesy of Peder Coerts, Mark Scheeres and FilmCollectief. A big thankyou, too, to our archivist, Richard Wiseman.

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Leopold Pleijsier founded F1-Fansite.com in 2001 and has followed Formula 1 since the early 1980s. He writes about daily F1 news, race weekends, drivers and the sport’s history.

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