Formula 1 teams come and go, but a few build a history that lasts. Since Sir Frank Williams and Sir Patrick Head founded the team in a Didcot carpet warehouse in 1977, the Williams F1 Team has become one of the three most successful teams in the history of the sport. Nine Constructors' World Championships. Seven Drivers' World Championships. One hundred and fourteen Grand Prix victories. Only Ferrari and McLaren share that company, and much of what we achieved was done with fewer resources than our rivals — by thinking differently, engineering carefully, and believing that the biggest budgets don't always win.
A legacy earned in milliseconds
For us, the story has always been more about ingenuity than resources.
The FW07 announced us as winners, carrying Clay Regazzoni to our first victory at Silverstone in 1979 and Alan Jones to our first drivers' and constructors' double in 1980. From there, the titles came in waves. Keke Rosberg in 1982. Back-to-back constructors' crowns in 1986 and 1987 in the ferocious Honda turbo era, with Nelson Piquet taking the drivers' title. Then the golden decade — five constructors' championships between 1992 and 1997, powered by Renault and shaped by some of the finest engineering minds the sport has ever seen.
The drivers who took our cars to the drivers' title span some of the sport's most familiar names: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The cars they drove pushed at the boundaries of what was possible — ground-effect aerodynamics, active suspension, and electronic systems that were effective enough that the sport eventually wrote new rules around them.
That same spirit reached far beyond the circuit. Williams engineering has helped make supermarket refrigeration more efficient, brought regenerative braking to London's buses, and applied the discipline of the pit stop to the wider world. Innovation, for us, has never stopped at the pit wall.
An inflection point — and the right partners for it
We compete today as one of Formula 1's few remaining independent teams. Since Dorilton Capital acquired the team in 2020, and under Team Principal James Vowles, we have committed to a long-term transformation: fixing the foundations, investing in people and technology, and building for sustainable success rather than chasing quick fixes. Last season we finished fifth. The direction of travel is clear.
Now, as Formula 1 enters the most significant regulatory change in a generation for 2026, we do so alongside a group of partners who share our belief that how you think can make the difference.
Atlassian leads that group as our Official Title Partner and Official Technology Partner. The team you know today as the Atlassian Williams F1 Team represents the biggest partnership in our history — and our first title partnership since 2020. Atlassian's System of Work connects every corner of the organisation, from the pit crew to the design office, helping our people collaborate and innovate at the scale modern Formula 1 demands. Like us, Atlassian started as an outsider and built something great through teamwork.
Anthropic joins us for 2026 with Claude named our Official Thinking Partner. Claude is being integrated right across the team — working alongside our engineers and strategists to support how we think, plan and perform across race strategy, car development and operations. It is a partnership built on a shared instinct: that elite human talent, paired with the right frontier technology, is how you find the milliseconds that matter. As Anthropic's Mike Krieger put it, we are exactly the kind of team Claude is built for.
Our partners in finance reflect the same ambition. Barclays arrives as our Official Banking Partner in its first-ever Formula 1 partnership, its branding featured on the FW48, on the helmets of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon, and throughout our garages and hospitality. BNY joins as our Official Institutional Banking Partner — two organisations anchored in heritage, performance and a shared drive for innovation, brought together for the new era. And Stephens, the independent, family-owned financial services firm founded in 1933, has been a valued partner since 2023 as our Official Investment Banking Partner, growing its brand across the U.S. and Europe alongside our journey.
Sparco returns to the Williams family as our Official Racewear and Technical Apparel Supplier — a reunion with real meaning. Mansell, Hill and Villeneuve all won their drivers' titles in Sparco suits in the 1990s. Now the brand is back to help write the next chapter, outfitting our drivers, our F1 Academy and Driver Academy talent, our Heritage team, our sim racers and our mechanics.
And Kraken, our Official Crypto and Web3 Partner since 2023, has renewed into a fourth season, taking pride of place on the leading edge of the FW48's front wing. Through Grid Pass and our global Fan Zones, Kraken has helped bring our fans closer to the team than ever before.
Thinking differently, together
Nine constructors' titles weren't won by having the most. They were won by making the most of what we had — through teamwork, attention to detail, and a conviction that the right ideas matter as much as the biggest budgets.
That is still how we approach the sport. With this group of partners beside us, and a new regulatory era ahead, we're focused on building the kind of steady, long-term performance that takes a team back towards the front of the grid.
We know there are no shortcuts. We've never expected any.