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James-Vowles-Team Boss-Williams
Principal: James Vowles

Name Williams
Country United Kingdom United Kingdom
Season Entries 48
Total Drivers 61
First Race 1975 Argentine F1 GP
Last Race 2023 Abu Dhabi F1 GP
First Pole 1979 British F1 GP
Last Pole 2014 Austrian F1 GP
First Win 1979 British F1 GP
Last Win 2012 Spanish F1 GP
First Podium 1975 German F1 GP
Last Podium 2021 Belgian F1 GP

Amount of Staff: 712 people
Engines used by Williams:
Ford (1975-1976, 1978-1983),
Honda (1983-1987),
Judd (1988),
Renault (1989-1997, 2012-2013, 2020),
Mecachrome (1998),
Supertec (1999),
BMW (2000-2005),
Cosworth (2006), (2010-2011),
Toyota (2007-2009),
Mercedes (2014-2023)

Williams F1 Stats

Constructors' Titles 9
Drivers' Titles 7
Race Entries 819
Race Starts 815
Race Wins 114 (13,9%)
Podiums 313 (38,2%)
One-Two Finishes 33 (4,0%)
Pole Positions 128 (15,6%)
Front row Starts 62 (7,6%)
Fastest Laps 133 (16,2%)
Total Points 3620
Total Laps 83590
Retirements 490 (59,8%)

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Williams F1 Team Drivers

 

Williams F1 Team 2023 Drivers


63. Alex Albon

Alex Albon 2023

 

Alex Albon F1 Stats

Race Entries 81
Race Starts 81
Race Wins 0
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
Podiums 2 (2,5%)
Points Finishes 36 (44,4%)
Retirements 12 (14,8%)
Total Points 228
Total Laps 4.488

Logan Sargeant F1 Stats

Race Entries 22
Race Starts 22
Race Wins 0
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
Podiums 0
Points Finishes 1 (4,5%)
Retirements 3 (13,6%)
Total Points 1
Total Laps 1.142

 

Reserve driver: Jack Aitken

Williams F1 Drivers List

Driver GP 1st 2nd 3rd Pod Pole Laps FL PTS
United Kingdom Nigel Mansell 95 28 12 3 43 28 4785 23 369
Germany Ralf Schumacher 94 6 5 10 21 5 4943 7 232
Italy Riccardo Patrese 81 4 12 8 24 6 4277 10 180
Brazil Felipe Massa 78 0 1 4 5 1 4218 1 351
Finland Valtteri Bottas 77 0 2 7 9 0 4376 1 411
Germany Nico Rosberg 70 0 1 1 2 0 3636 2 75.5
Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya 68 4 13 6 23 11 3650 11 221
United Kingdom Damon Hill 65 21 14 5 40 20 3583 19 326
Finland Keke Rosberg 62 5 7 3 15 4 3089 3 131.5
Canada Nicholas Latifi 61 0 0 0 0 0 3263 0 9
Australia Alan Jones 60 11 7 4 22 6 3167 13 171
United Kingdom George Russell 59 0 1 0 1 0 3147 0 16
Venezuela Pastor Maldonado 58 1 0 0 1 1 2910 0 47
Canada Jacques Villeneuve 49 11 5 5 21 13 2739 9 180
Thailand Alex Albon 43 0 0 0 0 0 2249 0 31
Canada Lance Stroll 41 0 0 1 1 0 2209 0 46
France Jacques Laffite 39 0 1 0 1 0 1443 0 22
Brazil Rubens Barrichello 38 0 0 0 0 0 2060 0 51
Japan Kazuki Nakajima 36 0 0 0 0 0 1972 0 9
Australia Mark Webber 36 0 0 1 1 0 1618 0 43
Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen 33 1 2 5 8 1 1594 6 59
Belgium Thierry Boutsen 32 3 1 4 8 1 1598 1 71
Brazil Nelson Piquet 31 7 10 4 21 6 1826 11 145
Argentina Carlos Reutemann 31 3 7 6 16 2 1681 3 104
United Kingdom David Coulthard 25 1 5 3 9 5 1183 4 63
United States Logan Sargeant 22 0 0 0 0 0 1142 0 1
Russian Federation Sergey Sirotkin 21 0 0 0 0 0 1119 0 1
Poland Robert Kubica 21 0 0 0 0 0 1179 0 1
Brazil Bruno Senna 20 0 0 0 0 0 1054 1 31
Germany Nico Hülkenberg 19 0 0 0 0 1 923 0 22
United Kingdom Jenson Button 17 0 0 0 0 0 789 0 12
Austria Alexander Wurz 16 0 0 1 1 0 854 0 13
France Alain Prost 16 7 3 2 12 13 989 6 99
Italy Alessandro Zanardi 16 0 0 0 0 0 585 0 0
Switzerland Clay Regazzoni 15 1 2 2 5 0 720 2 32
Germany Nick Heidfeld 13 0 2 1 3 1 720 0 28
Ireland Derek Daly 12 0 0 0 0 0 642 0 8
Brazil Antônio Pizzonia 9 0 0 0 0 0 375 0 8
Italy Arturo Merzario 5 0 0 0 0 0 93 0 0
United Kingdom Rupert Keegan 4 0 0 0 0 0 240 0 0
Brazil Ayrton Senna 3 0 0 0 0 3 60 0 0
Spain Marc Gené 3 0 0 0 0 0 183 0 4
South Africa Ian Scheckter 2 0 0 0 0 0 119 0 0
Italy Renzo Zorzi 2 0 0 0 0 0 85 0 0
United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer 1 0 0 0 0 0 74 0 0
United Kingdom Jack Aitken 1 0 0 0 0 0 87 0 0
United Kingdom Martin Brundle 1 0 0 0 0 0 42 0 0
United States Mario Andretti 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 0
United Kingdom Damien Magee 1 0 0 0 0 0 78 0 0
United Kingdom Tony Brise 1 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 0
France Jean-Louis Schlesser 1 0 0 0 0 0 49 0 0
United Kingdom Paul di Resta 1 0 0 0 0 0 60 0 0
Switzerland Jo Vonlanthen 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 0
Netherlands Nyck de Vries 1 0 0 0 0 0 53 0 2
United Kingdom Ian Ashley 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Management

 

Williams F1 Team Key Members


History

 

Williams F1 History


Frank Williams

Frank Williams

The last team led by a privateer on the paddock for a long time was the famous Williams Grand Prix racing team. The team formerly owned by Frank Williams had a hard time in the first decade of its existence. The team wasn't very successful until Patrick Head arrived.

Williams was involved in F1 since 1969. Their first F1 victory was the 1979 British F1 GP, with Clay Regazzoni. In 1979, they were the first team to discover the effect of the diffuser at the back of the car, which made their cars almost two seconds a lap faster than all other cars on the grid.

Williams, once consistent champions, have been languishing near the foot of the table after a miserable 10 years since 2004. However, their name and their brand are rivaled only by Ferrari and McLaren, and their fan base is one of the largest on the grid. With 2014 looking more positive, there is a feeling that Williams are back.

Clay Regazzoni (Williams FW07 Ford) 1st position, action. This was Williams Grand Prix Engineering's maiden Grand Prix victory. Silverstone, England. 12-14 July 1979.

Clay Regazzoni (Williams FW07 Ford) 1st position, action. This was Williams Grand Prix Engineering's maiden Grand Prix victory. Silverstone, England. 12-14 July 1979.

The 1980’s and 90’s brought high levels of success for the team founded by Sir Frank Williams in 1977. They were regular champions during the 1980’s and 90’s, widely believed to be the sports finest era, and had drivers such as Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Damon Hill all winning races and championships.

However time hasn’t been kind to Williams who have not won a championship since 1997 and have suffered at the hands of rule changes and the financial importance in the sport.

If races were decided on popularity then Williams would win hands down, thanks mainly to founder and team principle Sir Frank Williams. Williams has been wheel chair bound since a bad car accident in 1986, but he has still attended most of the grands prix. Now into his seventies his roles are becoming fewer and fewer but he is still a popular figure in the F1 paddock.

Damon Hill driving the Williams FW18 Renault on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (1996)

Damon Hill driving the Williams FW18 Renault on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (1996)

Since their glory days of the 1990’s Williams have declined. A couple of seasons challenging Michael Schumacher and Ferrari aside, the team have been largely a mid-table outfit battling for the lower points.

Their last win was the Spanish Grand Prix of 2012 by Pastor Maldonado. It was the only podium and win for the driver from Venezuela of his career. But the rule changes of 2014, and the Mercedes power-unit and brought Williams back into contention. What a wonderful story it would be if they could start winning again.

Unfortunately Williams wasn't able to win a race in 2014, 2015 and 2016. But they did finish 3rd on the 2014 & 2015 constructors championship table. In 2016 they had a lot of competition from Force India and could only score 1 podium to end on 5th place.

Pastor Maldonado wins the 2012 Spanish F1 GP for Williams

Pastor Maldonado wins the 2012 Spanish F1 GP for Williams

Williams 3rd places in the constructors championship in 2014 & .2015 where very strong achievements by the team with 1/3 of the budget of top teams like Mercedes and Ferrari. The driver pair Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa preformed very well. in 2014 they even won 9 podiums with a double podium in the last race at Abu Dhabi. In 2015 Williams won 4 podiums.

The 2016 and 2017 seasons were less successful. Williams ended up 5th in the championship with only one podium in each season.

The 2018 season was very disastrous for the team from Grove. This was the season that the Halo was introduced. They had Sergey Sirotkin and Lance Stroll as their race drivers and only scored 7 points and finished 11th and last in the constructors' championship. It was the worst championship since 1976 when they the team ended up as 17th.

Russell not expecting easy walk at Mercedes team next season

George Russell (GBR) Williams Racing.
Russian Grand Prix, Saturday 25th September 2021. Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Russia.

The 2019 season saw Williams with an all-new driver lineup, with F2 champion George Russell and the return to F1 of Grand Prix-winner Robert Kubica.

The Polish driver scored a point in the 2019 German Grand Prix, which was the only point Williams could score in the entire season.

Nicholas Latifi replaced Kubica for the 2020 season, but the team continued to struggle. Williams finished a season without points for the first time in its history in Formula 1 (since 1977) as Russell and Latifi could not put the car in the Top 10 in any event of the 2020 campaign.

The 2021 season was a lot better, with the team finishing in eighth place in the WCC with 23 points (its best tally since 2017) and even recording a podium finish.

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

Alexander Albon (THA) Williams Racing FW44.

Williams scored twice with both cars in 2021, and the podium came after Russell qualified second for the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Race Direction canceled the race on Sunday due to the rain, but still handed out points for the positions set in qualifying.

It was Williams' first podium since the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

As Russell joined Mercedes in 2022, Alexander Albon returned to a full-time F1 seat with Williams. Albon scored points with Williams for the first time in the 2022 Australian Grand Prix, when a solid drive and a great strategy gave him P10.

The COVID-19 virus ended an era of privateer teams. As the Williams family sold the team for €152 million to an investors' firm based in the US called Dorilton Capital.

The 2022 Formula 1 season saw the team score only eight points and finish 10th in the World Constructors' Standings. Alex Albon led the team with three scoring efforts, while Latifi grabbed two points at Suzuka and Nyck De Vries scored at Monza after replacing Albon due to a health problem.

For the 2023 campaign, the team stayed with Alexander Albon, while Nicholas Latifi lost his seat, as the team announced on 23 September 2022,

American driver Logan Sargeant, a race-winner in F2, was announced as Latifi's replacement on 21 November 2022.

Official Williams F1 website: https://www.williamsf1.com/

Achievements

 

Williams F1 Achievements


Williams Finishing Positions

1th114 Times
2th113 Times
3th86 Times
4th82 Times
5th91 Times
6th59 Times
7th55 Times
8th55 Times
9th55 Times
10th55 Times
11th58 Times
12th59 Times
13th44 Times
14th63 Times
15th46 Times
16th60 Times
17th36 Times
18th31 Times
19th7 Times
20th5 Times
22th1 Time
DNF422 Times
DSQ7 Times
EXC1 Time
NC4 Times
DNQ11 Times
DNS9 Times

Williams F1 Championship Positions

19751976197819791980198119821983
9th17th9th2th1th1th4th4th
19841985198619871988198919901991
6th3th1th1th7th2th4th2th
19921993199419951996199719981999
1th1th1th2th1th1th3th5th
20002001200220032004200520062007
3th3th2th2th4th5th8th4th
20082009201020112012201320142015
8th6th6th9th8th9th3th3th
20162017201820192020202120222023
5th5th11th10th10th8th10th7th

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Latest Williams News


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November 28, 2023 with 3 Comments

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

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Nov.27 - With new Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire openly eyeing Japan's Super Formula for 2024, F2 runner-up Frederik Vesti admits the door to F1 may be closed to him as well...

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Vesti Eyes F1 Debut as Sargeant's Williams Future Hangs

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November 25, 2023 with 7 Comments

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

New Rookie to Replace Sargeant at Williams Next Season?

Nov.23 - Logan Sargeant's seat at Williams is still not safe for 2024, according to a former Formula 1 driver. The American rookie is the last of the current drivers whose..

November 23, 2023 with 8 Comments

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

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Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

Vowles Assures Sargeant Ready for Challenging Las Vegas F1 Race

Nov.16 - Williams hopes a physical problem with Logan Sargeant will be resolved once the American rookie hits the new Las Vegas track late on Thursday. The 22-year-old, whose race..

November 16, 2023 with 1 Comment

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

AlphaTauri Eyes Williams in Dramatic Turnaround for F1 Season Finale

Nov.13 - A change of approach and the arrival of Daniel Ricciardo sees AlphaTauri now eyeing Williams' seventh-place in the 2023 constructors' championship with two races to go...

November 13, 2023 with 2 Comments

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

Albon's Remarkable Turnaround: From Red Bull Drop to Williams Star

Nov.10 - Alex Albon says it's so difficult for a driver in the lower half of the grid to make his mark in Formula 1. In actual fact, the British-born Thai driver has managed to..

November 10, 2023 with 0 Comments

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

Rookie Sargeant's Williams seat hangs on season-end performance boost

Nov.4 - Williams has issued the clearest sign yet that Logan Sargeant will be offered a contract extension for 2024. It's the final official vacancy on next year's grid, with team..

November 4, 2023 with 3 Comments

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