Williams Competing, legally called Williams Grand Prix Design Limited, is a British Formula One group and fabricator. It was founded by Frank Williams (1942–-- 2021) and Patrick Head. The group was formed in 1977 after Frank Williams's earlier not successful F1 operation, Frank Williams Racing Vehicles (which later on ended up being Wolf–-- Williams Competing in 1976). The team is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, on a 60-acre (24 ha) website. The team's first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new group ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams started making its own vehicles the list below year, and Clay Regazzoni won Williams's first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Jacques Villeneuve racked up the team's 100th race success, making Williams one of just 5 groups in Formula One, alongside Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull Racing to win 100 races. Williams won 9 Manufacturers' Champions in between 1980 and 1997. This was a document until Ferrari won its tenth championship in 2000. Notable chauffeurs for Williams include: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hillside, David Coulthard, Jenson Button, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Riccardo Patrese, Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Reutemann, Felipe Massa and Jacques Villeneuve. Of these vehicle drivers, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill, Piquet, Prost, and Villeneuve won the Drivers' title with the group. Of those that have won the champion with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve protected their title while still with the group; as Piquet moved to Lotus after winning the 1987 championship; Mansell left F1 to compete in the CART series after winning the 1992 championship, Prost retired after winning the 1993 champion, and Hill relocated to Arrows after winning the 1996 champion. None of Williams's Drivers' Champions went on to win one more champion after their success with Williams. Williams have actually dealt with lots of engine producers, most successfully with Renault, winning five of their 9 Constructors' titles with the business. Along with Ferrari, McLaren, Benetton and Renault, Williams is among a group of five groups that won every Fabricators' Champion in between 1979 and 2008 and every Chauffeurs' Championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams also has organization interests past Solution One. They have actually established Williams Advanced Design and Williams Crossbreed Power, that take innovation initially created for Formula One and adjust it for industrial applications. In April 2014, Williams Crossbreed Power was marketed to GKN. In Might 2020, Williams announced they were seeking buyers for a section of the group because of bad financial efficiency in 2019 and that they had actually terminated the contract of title enroller ROKiT. On 21 August 2020, Williams was acquired by Dorilton Capital. Frank and Claire Williams stepped down from being Supervisor and Deputy Supervisor of the group on 6 September 2020, with the 2020 Italian Grand Prix being their last time in their particular placements.
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