Fifth Williams Test Livery


Fifth Test Livery

By Williams F1 Team
February 19 2008

Revealing the fifth in a series of six anniversarial racing liveries today at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, two Williams FW30s will take to the track carrying the handwritten best of wishes of the team’s seven World Champion drivers. It will also carry the names of all the drivers who have raced for Williams, including the likes of Aryton Senna and Alan Jones..

 
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Revealing the fifth in a series of six anniversarial racing liveries today at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, two Williams FW30s will take to the track carrying the handwritten best wishes of the team’s seven World Champion drivers.

Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve all sent the team personal congratulations as it embarks on its fourth decade of Formula One and at the Italian Grand Prix later this year, will record its 500th Grand Prix start.

With comments as suitably Australian as “I was the first” from Alan Jones to Nigel Mansell’s “Fabulous 28 wins, Red Five”, the livery is a celebration of some of the most evocative and talented names to have graced the sport in the past thirty years.

The 1982 World Champion, Keke Rosberg, for his part commented, “Thanks….for 4 great years” and Alain Prost, Williams’ 1993 Champion added, “Many thanks to all the team – I was proud to win my last World Championship with you.” The team’s most recent title winners, Damon Hill (1996) and Jacques Villeneuve (1997) said in turn “Thanks Frank” and “Thanks for 3 amazing years and the Championship.”

In addition to the good wishes from the seven World Champions, the thirty one drivers who have raced for the team in nearly as many years will grace the monocoque top, including names such as Ayrton Senna, Mario Andretti, Carlos Reutemann and Clay Regazzoni to current racers including Jenson Button, Juan Pablo Montoya and David Coulthard.

 
The full list of Williams drivers since 1978 is:- 

		 Years of Service 		   Races  Wins
*Alan Jones 	 4 (‘78 – ’81) 		   60        11
Clay Regazzoni 	 1 (’79) 			   15        1
Carlos Reutemann      3 (’80 – ’82) 		   31        3
*Keke Rosberg 	 4 (’82 – ’85) 		   47        5**
Mario Andretti 	 1 GP (‘82) 		   1          0
Derek Daly 	 12 GPs (’82) 		   12        0
Jacques Lafitte  	 2 (’83 – ‘84) 		   29        0
Jonathan Palmer  	 1 GP (’83) 		   1          0
*Nigel Mansell   	 7 (’84–‘88 & ’91–‘92 	& 4 GP '94	)  95        28
*Nelson Piquet 	 2 (’86 – ’87) 		   31        7
Riccardo Patrese 	 5 (’88–’92 & 1GP ’87) 	   81        4
Martin Brundle 	 1 GP (’88) 		   1          0
Jean Lois Schlesser 	 1 GP (’88) 		   1          0
Thierry Boutsen  	 2 (’89 – ’90) 		   32        3**
*Damon Hill 	 4 (’93 – ’96) 		   65        21
*Alain Prost 	 1 (’93) 			   16        7
Ayrton Senna     	 3 GPs (’94) 		   3          0
David Coulthard  	 1 (’95 & 8 GPs ’94) 		   25        1
*Jacques Villeneuve 	 3 (’96 – ’98) 		   49        11**
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 2 (’97 – ’98) 		   33        1
Ralf Schumacher  	 6 (’99 – ’04) 		   96        6*
Alex Zanardi 	 1 (’99) 			   16        0
Jenson Button 	 1 (’00) 			   17        0
Juan Pablo Montoya 	 4 (’01 – ’04) 		   68        4
Marc Gené 	 3 GPs (1 ’03 & 2 ’04) 	   3          0
Antonio Pizzonia 	 9 GPs (4 ’04 & 5 ’05) 	   9          0
Mark Webber 	 2 (’05 – ’06) 		   36        0
Nick Heidfeld 	 1 (’05) 			   18        0
Nico Rosberg 	 2 (’06 – today) 		   35        0
Alex Wurz 	 16 GPs (’07) 		   16        0
Kazuki Nakajima  	 1 GP (’07 – today) 		   1          0

* World Champions
** Total career wins, all won with Williams F1
 

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Fifth Williams Test Livery
Discussion started by Williams F1 , 19/02/2008 12:38
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Fifth Williams Test Livery

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Oxford Girl
19/02/2008 20:04
I think this was a brilliant idea...so great for Sir Frank. The team have had such excellent ideas for the "Year of Milestones" liveries, to celebrate 30 years of racing... smiling smiley


A mistake was made on this article,, very first line
[www.f1network.net]

it says "2008 is Williams 13th year"

don;t know who wrote it but at least we know what we are celebrating :-)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2008:02:19:20:13:34 by Oxford Girl.

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LoudHoward
19/02/2008 20:55
Looks exactly the same.

Uh oh, Webbers name on the car!!! Will the FW30 or this forum break down first?

http://www.users.on.net/~loud_howard/webber/sigs/webbersiglatest4.jpg
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ndsask
19/02/2008 21:18
Toyota B-Team, WilliamsF1, is not as petty as its former driver I suppose.

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sennaspeed
19/02/2008 21:25
I found some images on the f1-live.com site of the "Signatures" of the World Champions, but damn if I can't figure out how to post them!

So here's the link instead!

[en.f1-live.com]

go to pages 5, 6, 7, 8. These page numbers will change as they add more images.

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ndsask
19/02/2008 21:33
http://www.motorsport.com/photos/f1/2008/tes/f1-2008-tes-xp-2133.jpg

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/f1/2008/tes/f1-2008-tes-xp-2134.jpg

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/f1/2008/tes/f1-2008-tes-xp-2135.jpg

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ndsask
19/02/2008 21:39
http://images.gpupdate.net/large/92324.jpg

http://images.gpupdate.net/large/92286.jpg

http://images.gpupdate.net/large/92280.jpg

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pgj
19/02/2008 22:04
A nice sequence of pictures.

Williams and proud of it.

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lole2
19/02/2008 23:26
nice to see carlos reutemann name on a williams again!!!

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Stuart L
23/02/2008 19:37
i love these images. good for the f1 romantic!

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