Williams F1 Thirty Years of Racing


FW30 with thanks to fans

By Williams F1 Team
February 11 2008

In the fourth of a series of winter liveries released to celebrate Williams’ 30th year of competing in Formula One, the two FW30s that will run at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in testing this week will be adorned with numbers that have been notable for the team over the past three decades. Several of these landmarks are due to be passed during the 2008 season.

 
 Thirty Years of Racing
 

Series One is Williams LogosIn the fourth of a series of winter liveries released to celebrate Williams’ 30th year of competing in Formula One, the two FW30s that will run at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in testing this week will be adorned with numbers that have been notable for the team over the past three decades.

With a number of landmarks due to be passed during the 2008 season, the team’s current record by numbers, prior to the start of the new season, is as follows:-

 
233,787: Kilometres raced
49,634: Laps raced
34,651: Kilometres led
7,470: Laps led
2,552.5: Total points scored
485: Grand Prix contested
295: Podium finishes
216: Races led
129: Fastest Laps
125: Pole positions
113: Victories
68: Races won from pole position
61: Number of locked out front rows, a record
45: Number of victories led from start to finish
33: One – Two victories
24: The number of consecutive poles (1992 – 1993), a record
15: Number of pole positions secured in one season (out of a possible 16), 
and achieved two years in succession (1992 and 1993), a record shared only 
with McLaren
12: 1996 Highest number of wins claimed in one season
9: Constructors’ Championships
7: Drivers’ Championships
7: The highest number of successive wins (1993)
5: Engine partnerships
3: Average Championship position
2: Queen’s Award for Export
2: Recognitions for Frank Williams in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. 
Frank is the only team boss in the paddock to have received a knighthood in the 
Queen’s honours list, which he added to his CBE award collected in 1986
1 and 100: The first and 100th victories were won at the team’s 
home Grand Prix at Silverstone
1: Frank Williams is the longest serving Team Principal in the sport

The team’s corporate history is deemed to have commenced in 1977 when Williams Grand Prix Engineering was formally incorporated, representing the start of the partnership between Frank Williams and Patrick Head. However, in 1977, the team raced a March 761-7 while the first WGPE designed and built car, the FW06, was under development.

Series Two in Williams LogosThis first genuine WGPE race car was thus first entered in the Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires for Alan Jones on January 15, 1978. As a consequence, 2008 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the team’s Formula One debut.

Discounting a number of non-Championship races that the team has contested, such as the 1980 Spanish GP and the 1981 South African GP, Williams will record its 500 GP in Monza this year. If the team completes all racing laps, it will, by Barcelona, record its 50,000 racing lap.

Over its thirty years of Formula One, Williams has enjoyed enduring rivalry with some of the sport’s greatest names. The team’s record in this company is as follows:-
  
Williams has won 23.3% of the races it has entered. This record is 
slightly behind Ferrari (ratio of 26.5%) & McLaren (24.8%)

60.8% of the races Williams has entered have yielded a podium position

Williams has scored an average of five points every race since 1977
Over 57 years (1950 – 2007) Ferrari has won 201 races: 3.5 wins per annum
Over 44 years (1963 – 2007) McLaren has won 156 races: 3.5 wins per annum
Over 36 years (1958 – 1994) Lotus won 79 races: 2.2 wins per annum
Over 30 years (1977 – 2007) Williams has won 113 races: 3.8 wins per annum

	 Races Wins Poles 	Fastest Podiums  Laps      Laps      Points
			Laps     	            Raced   Lead      Total 
 
Ferrari  	758      201   195   	205      603           86,612   12,489   4,753.27
McLaren  	630      156   133   	133      418           66,162   9,212     3,477.5
Lotus 	491      79    107   	71        172           55,918   5,498     1,514
Williams   485      113   125   	128      294           49,350   7,470     2,552.5
 

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Beatrix
11/02/2008 22:11
Great article AH top job

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pgj
12/02/2008 14:44
Andrew thumbs down

Williams and proud of it.

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Captain Avenger
13/02/2008 05:16
"Williams has scored an average of five points every race since 1977"


That's a pretty amazing stat !

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myhead
13/02/2008 05:36
Over 57 years (1950 – 2007) Ferrari has won 201 races: 3.5 wins per annum
Over 44 years (1963 – 2007) McLaren has won 156 races: 3.5 wins per annum
Over 36 years (1958 – 1994) Lotus won 79 races: 2.2 wins per annum
Over 30 years (1977 – 2007) Williams has won 113 races: 3.8 wins per annum

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