Britain For the Record

Posted on Thursday 05 Jul 2007

1-100 Jacques Villeneuve’s win at the 1997 British Grand Prix was a landmark for the Williams team, marking its 100th win. It was apt that Silverstone was the venue as it was there in 1979 that Clay Regazzoni secured Williams’ first Grand Prix win. Flying Finn’s First First Keke Rosberg’s 1982 pole position at Brands Hatch was the first of four for Williams. The British Grand Prix is also the only race at which the Finnish flyer twice achieved pole. 1987 Nigel Mansell secured his 10th career win at the British Grand Prix after a ferocious battle with team mate Nelson Piquet. It was his second successive win at Silverstone with Mansell and Piquet securing a Williams one-two on both occasions. 20 years, 2 months, 7 days Jenson Button’s age when he finished sixth for Williams in the 2000 British GP, making him the youngest person to score a point in Formula One 0 Both Nigel Mansell (1986, 1987, 1991 and 1992) and Damon Hill (1994) have won their home Grand Prix in a Williams. Mansell also set the fastest lap time five times between 1986 and 1992, while Hill’s win in 1994 was the first and only time a car with the number 0 has won the British Grand Prix. One hundred and seventy two points Williams likes playing at home. At no other race has it scored as many points as the 13 pole positions and 10 wins it has at the British Grand Prix. It has also had 19 front rows, as well as setting the fastest lap 10 times and achieving 21 podiums. 160.92 Keke Rosberg’s time in qualifying for pole position for the 1985 British Grand Prix set a record for the fastest average speed set over a lap by a Formula One car, 160.92 mph. The record stood for 17 years, and was only broken by another Williams driver, Juan Pablo Montoya, in qualifying for Monza in 2002.