Linked from http://www.formula1.com/news/6024.html --- Williams have decided to end their Barcelona test session early after Nico Rosberg crashed heavily on Wednesday morning. Rosberg emerged unscathed, but extensive damage to his FW29 has prompted the team to head home to the UK. With the test having been extended into Thursday due to Tuesday’s poor weather, it means Williams will miss out on a day and a half’s worth of running at the Spanish Grand Prix circuit. Rosberg lost control over a...Read Full Story
Sir Frank Williams has received the Helen Rollason Award at the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony in Birmingham.
The award, named in honour of the BBC sports presenter who lost her battle with cancer in 1999, is given for “outstanding achievement in the face of adversity”.
Founder and manager of the Williams Formula 1 team, Sir Frank has been in a wheelchair since suffering a spinal cord injury in a car accident en route to Nice airport from the Paul Ricard Circuit in...Read Full Story
This weekend sees round eleven of the Formula 1 championship in Hungary. The race in Budapest is the final one before the three week summer break and the first time AT&T Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima has competed there in an F1 car. "I’ve never driven a Formula One car at the Hungaroring, but I raced there in GP2 last year and had a pretty good result," he said. "The circuit itself should suit our car, and we did a lot of work at the Jerez test last week on set-ups so we are well prepared...Read Full Story
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| formula 1 | technology | Racing Williams’ stake in the Automotive Hybrid Power, the company that develops the KERS system, increased after the Formula One team bought more shares of the company it already had a 40% stake in. According to a statement made by Williams, the team upped its stake to 78% and will use the technology on road-production cars, including the new Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid . In addition, Williams also plans to sell the...Read Full Story
Bruno Senna has said he will not mind if he begins his Formula One career with a smaller team. The 24-year-old, whose famous late uncle Ayrton Senna won three world championships, currently lies second overall in this season's GP2 standings. Rumours are beginning to intensify that he is knocking on the door of a 2009 F1 debut; possibly with the team (Toro Rosso) co-owned by his uncle's former team-mate and friend, Gerhard Berger, or perhaps even BMW-Sauber. Senna gave little away to the...Read Full Story
German driver Nico Rosberg put his 2011 Mercedes in first place at the end of day 3 of the preseason testing at Jerez. Frenchman Romain Grosjean's Lotus was the fastest of the 2012-spec cars. The conditions on track were much better today, as there was ...
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• Nico Rosberg's 2011 Mercedes fastest in Jerez testing• Romain Grosjean's Lotus best of teams' 2012 modelsLewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel produced almost identical times on the third day of testing in Jerez on Thursday but they were trumped by the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg, even though he was driving last year's car.Romain Grosjean's Lotus was the fastest of the 2012-spec cars, just ahead of Hamilton's McLaren and Vettel's Red Bull. But it...
Nico Rosberg, Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team Photo by: xpb.cc
Date Tuesday 7 February 2012
Track Circuito de Jerez
Driver Nico Rosberg / Michael Schumacher
No of Laps 56 laps / 42 laps
Best Lap Time 1:20.219 / 1:20.794
Kms Covered 248 kms / 186 kms
Track Length 4.428 kms
Weather Sunny
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS began its 2012...
Mercedes GP's 2011 challenger once again upstaged the new cars on day three of the pre-season test in Jerez with Nico Rosberg topping the timesheets. World Champion Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton were all in ...
WilliamsF1, the trading name of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd., is a Formula One (F1) motor racing team and constructor. The team won nine Constructor's titles between 1980 and 1997. The team was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. Its first race was the 1978 Argentine Grand Prix and Switzerland's Clay Regazzoni won...more
WilliamsF1, the trading name of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd., is a Formula One (F1) motor racing team and constructor. The team won nine Constructor's titles between 1980 and 1997. The team was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. Its first race was the 1978 Argentine Grand Prix and Switzerland's Clay Regazzoni won Williams' first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Canadian Jacques Villeneuve won the team's 100th race, making Williams one of the "Big Three" teams in Formula One, alongside Ferrari and fellow British team McLaren. All of WilliamsF1 chassis are called "FW" then a number, the FW being the initials of team owner, Frank Williams.
The team was founded in 1977 after two earlier and, compared to WilliamsF1's achievements, unsuccessful F1 operations, Frank Williams Racing Cars and Walter Wolf Racing.
Many famous racing drivers have driven for Williams, including Finland's Keke Rosberg; Britain's Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill; France's Alain Prost and Brazil's Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna. After Senna died in a Williams car, following a fatal crash at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, Frank Williams, Patrick Head and designer Adrian Newey, were all accused of manslaughter. The trial finally closed in 2005, when Williams, Head and Newey were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Williams have worked with many notable engine manufacturers, most successfully with Renault: Williams won five of their nine constructors' titles with the French company. -- source www.wikipedia.org