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Frank Williams - Team Principal

July 19, 1958. Frank Williams stands transfixed. It has taken the 16-year-old six hours to hitch 60 miles from Nottingham to Silverstone, where Peter Collins is about to guide…

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Patrick Head - Director of Engineering

“My father formed part of a motorcycle trials team in the army. He was contesting an event in Germany on the day World War Two broke out, but a…

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Toto Wolff - Non Executive Director

Motorsport did not feature prominently in new Williams shareholder Toto Wolff’s family background – “Most of them hated it,” the Austrian says, “because they felt it was intellectually inappropriate”…

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Rubens Barrichello

He says he feels just as good as he did when he was 16… and from his voice’s timbre you might deduce that he’ll carry on until he’s 60.…

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Nico Hulkenberg

Zandvoort, Holland, October 1 2006. The second A1 Grand Prix series – motorsport’s World Cup of Nations – has just commenced. The 23-strong field contains some seasoned campaigners, one…

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Valterri Bottas

A funny thing, providence. Williams’s new test driver Valtteri Bottas was just four years old when he and his father drove past a sign advertising a kart race at…

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Adam Parr - Chairman

There is no prescribed route to a career in motorsport. The Formula One paddock’s cosmopolitan tapestry reflects as much – and Adam Parr has a more diverse background than…

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Alex Burns - Chief Executive Officer

So what, Alex Burns, does a Formula One team’s chief operating officer actually do? Burns smiles. “In essence, I think I run all the bits nobody else wants to…

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Sam Michael - Technical Director

Consistent laps are part of the game, but we’re not talking here about corner-entry speeds or perfectly judged apices. From about 7.30 a normal routine is unchanging: through the…

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Mark Biddle - Legal Counsel

Some of Williams’ longest-serving team members have attended 500 grands prix or more – and many other events besides – so legal counsel Mark Biddle’s position is slightly unusual.…

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Ed Wood - Chief Designer

Ed Wood suspects he might work in the world of academia if he wasn’t engaged in motorsport. An ironic alternative, that, for somebody who once turned his back on…

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Jon Tomlinson - Head of Aerodynamics

Every motor racing paddock is littered with people who once dreamed about a driving career, before circumstance obliged them to find an alternative route into their sport of choice.…

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Tim Newton - Team Manager

GP originally stood for “general practitioner” in the Newton household, but developed an alternative significance when the family moved house in 1966. “That’s when we relocated to Silverstone village,”…

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Tony Ross - Race Engineer

Williams is accustomed to championship-winning drivers, but it is not widely known that new signing Rubens Barrichello’s race engineer falls into that very category.

After an…

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Tom McCullough - Race Engineer

Motorsport is often a secretive business, but this was a covert operation with a difference. Tom McCullough managed to persuade the Williams security staff that he had legitimate business…

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