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On 5 July 2019, the Williams FW14B chassis number FW14/8 was sold for £2,703,000 at auction by Bonhams at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Retired four-time Formula One World Champion Sebastian Vettel drove Nigel Mansell 's Williams FW14B at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed along with Ayrton Senna 's McLaren MP4/8 .
Williams Racing, legally known as Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited and competing as Atlassian Williams Racing, is a British Formula One team and constructor. It was founded by Frank Williams (1942–2021) and Patrick Head .
The Williams FW15C is a Formula One car designed by Adrian Newey and built by Williams Grand Prix Engineering for use in the 1993 Formula One World Championship.. As the car that won both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in the last season before the FIA banned electronic driver aids, the FW15C (along with its racing predecessor FW14B) was, in 2005, considered to be one of the most ...
The Williams FW18 is a Formula One car used by the Williams F1 team to compete in the 1996 Formula One season. Designed by Adrian Newey and Patrick Head, it is one of the most successful F1 designs of all time. The FW18s were driven by Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The car proved to be the most successful of the entire 1996 field; winning ...
Williams FW14: Technical specifications [1] Chassis: Carbon fibre and Kevlar composite structure: Suspension (front) Williams double wishbones, push-rod actuated springs and dampers, anti-roll bar: Suspension (rear) Williams double wishbones, push-rod actuated springs and dampers, anti-roll bar: Axle track: Front: 1,803 mm (71.0 in) Rear: 1,676 ...
This was the first McLaren to use a semi-automatic transmission; it was a McLaren-designed electro-hydraulic clutch and paddle-shift unit with semi-automatic activation (a semi-automatic transmission had been tested during the previous season with the MP4/6 and was on track during practice for the 1991 Hungarian Grand Prix, but the team elected to retain that car's original manual transaxle ...
The Williams FW12 was a Formula One racing car used by the Williams team for the 1988 season. An updated version, the FW12C , was used for 12 of the 16 races of the 1989 season. [ 3 ] The FW12 was Williams's first naturally aspirated car since the FW08 and FW08 C used in the 1982 and 1983 season.
The hydraulic suspension systems were developed by Jones, who hated the rock hard suspension. During a winter test session at the Paul Ricard Circuit in the south of France , he suggested to Frank Williams that to compensate for the harsh ride and the pounding the driver gets while driving the car that he "put suspension on the seat", which ...