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Team history of Williams team
Williams entered F 1 in 1970s, which was later than Ferrari and McLaren. At the beginning, its budget was pitiful.

Mankind can overcome all kinds of difficulties, and frank Wilhemlms is a living example. When he found that his talent as a driver was not outstanding, with the deep friendship with Pierce Kureger, they teamed up at the end of 1969. Pierce competed as a driver in the following 1970 season, but his performance was disappointing, and the car could not be compared with the car he drove in 1969. Tragedy followed. Pierce died unexpectedly at the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of the season, and Frank suffered a great blow. He got into financial trouble and chose the worst way to hire hopeless players. 1976, he teamed up with Walter Wolff, but the bad result prompted him to make another decision-Patrick Hand as an engineer partner to establish the Williams team. Frank spent a lot of time trying to win the support of the Saudis. From 65438 to 0978, with the FW06 designed by Patrick, Allen Jones performed well in many competitions. In 1979, Williams won the first grand prix, and Clay Rezoni won the championship at Silverstone with FW07. Allen Jones ended the season with many wonderful performances. 1980, Allen Jones and his new teammate Carlos Roesman won the first team championship for Williams, and Jones himself won the driver championship that year. The team successfully defended its title in the second year, but Jones lost to Nelson Piquet in the driver's championship and retired from F 1. In the next 82 years, turbocharged engines began to appear, but Williams still used the Ford Cosworth engine, which made Kokorosberg win the driver's championship that year. That year, they failed to win the championship and the victory was taken away by Ferrari. Then the team reached an agreement with Honda. Although the V6 turbine engine is bulky and rough, its performance has been improved over time, and the team won again in 1986. In Adelaide, Mansel's engine exploded with only 65,438+08 laps left in the race, so Prost took the driver's championship.

That year, although the team won the championship again, frank Wilhemlms was paralyzed by a car accident on the way back from Paul ricard's test.

1987, Nelson Piquet and Nicky Mansel drove FW 1 1 to win the drivers' championship and the team championship for Frank again. The next season, it never rains but it pours. Piquet switched to Lotus Team, Williams lost a driver, and Honda Engine also parted ways with the team, which is undoubtedly worse. After struggling for a year, the team began to cooperate with Renault in 1989. The car is impeccable and fast, but the problem is that no excellent driver can match it. Until 9 1, Mansel returned to Williams after playing for Ferrari for two years. Despite the excellent performance of the new FW 14, Mansel lost to ayrton senna of McLaren because of the reliability of the gearbox. But the next year, Mansel was invincible, winning nine consecutive victories, and winning the double honor of driver champion and team champion for Williams again.

As the contract was not reached, Mansel left Williams to participate in the Indy Competition, and Alan Prost took his place, winning the double championship for Williams for the second time in a row. Frank was the first team boss to let Senna test drive F 1 and invited Brazilian stars to join the team. He actually signed the greatest driver at that time and played for him in 1994, but the tragedy happened again. Senna was killed. He only played three races for the team. With this final blow, the morale of Frank and the whole team fell to an all-time low. Damon hill rose from the team's test driver to the right driver, making up for the driver vacancy left by Senna. In the race for the driver's championship, he launched a powerful challenge to Schumacher and saved Williams from dire straits. Although the Englishman failed to win the driver's championship, he won another championship for the team.

1995, Benetton also has a powerful Renault engine, and he also has a super driver Schumacher. That year, Williams won only five games. Four for Hill and one for Kutta. Bad game strategy made them pay a heavy price. 1996, the situation has been greatly improved. Jacques jacques villeneuv came to Williams from the Indian Games. In this year, Hill lost to Jacques four times, but he beat his teammates in other competitions. Hill finally won the driver's championship, followed by Jacques with a slight advantage. Together, they gave Frank the eighth team championship trophy. Hill left Williams at the end of the season. Jacques villeneuv partnered with franzen and made persistent efforts to win the third consecutive drivers' championship for Williams. Their victories also reached a record nine times.

1998 and 1999, bad luck kept falling on Williams. With Renault's exit from F 1, Williams only has one underpowered Supertec engine. On the other hand, McLaren has been eyeing it for a long time and seems determined to regain control of the F 1 stadium. 1997 At the end of the season, Villeneuve changed its name to Anglo-American Team and was reorganized by Taylor. At the same time, franzen joined the Jordan team. In preparation for the 1999 season, Frank signed Alex Zanaldi, the then world champion of Carter, expecting him to win the game like jacques villeneuv, and his partner was ralf schumacher. But contrary to expectations, the later game proved that Zanaldi and Frank's expectations were far from each other, and nothing was achieved throughout the season. Ralph grew up quickly and stood on the podium several times, but it was not enough for the whole team. Williams ranked fifth at the end of this season and fell to the lowest point in 10 years. June 5438 +2000 10, the team terminated the contract with Zanaldi, and he didn't start the season with the team. Williams is determined to choose a fledgling young genius-20-year-old British driver Barton, expecting him to achieve the goal that Zanaldi can't. The arrival of the new BMW engine has brought improvements to Williams. Although the team thinks that the two young drivers can only keep the team at a medium level at most, they still keep the third place in the championship list for the team. As it turns out, Barton is indeed flawed. Sir Frank is faced with a difficult choice, whether to keep the young Englishman in the team or choose Colombian superstar Montoya. He finally chose the latter and loaned Barton to Benetton for two years. It seems that this decision did not make him regret.

200 1, Colombian driver Montoya shocked the whole F 1 world. However, the reliability of the car has been bothering him all season. Nevertheless, he continued to get the starting position, stood on the podium several times, and won the first victory of F 1 in the Italian Grand Prix. Montoya and teammate ralf schumacher won four races for the team, and fought fiercely with McLaren in the championship, but only finished third.

In 2002, they surpassed McLaren and won the third place in the team championship. Montoya and Ralph ranked third and fourth respectively in the drivers' championship.

In the 2003 season, the two drivers continued to partner. They have the ability to narrow the gap with Ferrari. Before the Japanese Grand Prix, they were ahead of Ferrari in team points, but after the season, they could only accept the second place.

Whether you like it or not, the tusk-shaped front nose wing on BMW Williams chariot in 2004 season left a deep impression on people, but this design was abandoned by the team in the middle of the season because it did not bring the expected effect to the team. During the four years of cooperation between German automobile giant BMW and Williams F 1, they still can't make a car comparable to Ferrari.

Juan Pablo Montoya won the last race of the 2004 season for BMW Williams, thus putting a unique end to this difficult season. In 2004, the two drivers climbed the podium four times, and finally ranked fourth in the standings after Renault with the score of 17 (Renault provided the engine for Williams in 1997, and Williams won the championship that year).

In 2005, the team had a brand-new driver lineup-Mark Webber and Nick heidfeld, and Antonio Pizzonia became the team's test driver. It's another difficult season for Sam Michael. Throughout the season, his staff adjusted all the aerodynamic components on the FW27 car. In Monaco Grand Prix, Heidfeld crossed the finish line ahead of teammate Webber in second place, but fifth place in the standings was not what the team wanted.

In the middle of the 2005 season, BMW announced the acquisition of Sauber, and soon after, Williams announced that it would use Cosworth engine in the 2006 season, which also announced the end of the cooperation between BMW and Williams. There is no doubt that 2006 was a season when Williams left Webber and signed Ran Ran star Nico Rosberg.

In the 2006 season, the team only got 1 1 point, which was Williams' least score in the past 30 years. Ranked eighth in the year made the team and sponsors very dissatisfied. Especially under the strong performance of young driver Rosberg, but the technology of engine supplier Cosworth obviously lags behind the current situation of opponents. The team has repeatedly regretted retiring in a good situation. In the last race of the Brazilian Grand Prix, Weber and Rosberg were both out on the first lap. In 2006, Williams failed to finish the race 20 times because of car trouble (or driver error), and Webber's second place in the sub-station was their best result all season.

In 2007, FW29 began to use Toyota engine, showing good stability. At the end of the season, Wurz announced his retirement, and another Japanese driver, Ichiki Shima, participated in the last race on behalf of the team. The Japanese driver subsequently won the official driver's seat in 2008.

In 2008, Rosberg won the third place in the opening race, but in the following races, Williams was in a downturn, and only the runner-up of the Singapore Grand Prix became the only bright spot for most of the season. In the end, this F 1 veteran team completed the annual competition with 26 points, ranking eighth in the standings of the train team.

In 2009, Williams ranked seventh in the season with a total score of 34.5 points. However, after the end of the season, the team terminated the contract with the engine supplier Toyota, and Rosberg also switched to Mercedes GP.

In the 20 10 season, Williams restarted Cosworth engine and recruited veteran Barrichello to compete with new GP2 champion hackenberg. The only highlight of the team's whole season was that Huckenberg made a pole start in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix. The team finally ranked sixth with 70 points. At the end of the season, hackenberg left the team.

20 1 1 This season is Williams' worst record in the last decade. Compared with any car running on the track at 20 1 1, Williams' FW33 has the smallest gearbox and the most compact rear, but all these can't hide the team's bad situation. Venezuelan-sponsored Rubens Barrichello and maldonado scored only 5 points in a season. The team also fired technical director Sam Michael in the middle of the season, and then announced the signing of former spy chief Kaufran, aerodynamic builder Jason Samuel and Mark Gillan. But the improvement of blowing diffusion has been done many times, and the team has not returned to the right track. 20 1 1 was the worst year for Williams.

In the 20 12 season, Williams started to use Renault engine again after 15, and maldonado won the first sub-station championship in the last eight years. However, this has not changed the team's weakness throughout the season. Finally, the team ranked eighth in the standings with 76 points.

20 13 season, Williams experienced a nightmare season, and the team only got 5 points. Ranked 9 th in the team standings.

Williams made great progress in the 20 14 season. Brazilian driver Massa and former Ferrari engineer Smedley switched from Ferrari to Williams. At the same time, the team used a Mercedes-Benz engine with excellent power performance. In the 19 race of the whole season, two drivers of the team, Botas and Massa, made nine podium appearances. Botas * * * beat Vettel, Alonso, Barton, Raikkonen and other former world champions with a score of 186, ranking fourth in the drivers' standings; Massa scored 134, ranking seventh in the drivers' championship. The first team scored 320 points and beat Ferrari, McLaren and other famous teams to win the third place.