Where is Atlassian Williams Racing Located?

Atlassian Williams Racing has called Oxfordshire home since our inaugural 1977 campaign. From car design and build to team logistics, everything starts from our headquarters in the heart of the English countryside.

Having jumped between a couple of bases in nearby Didcot, the team moved to Grove in 1996 and it’s from here we start our journey to 24 Grands Prix across the globe.

Our factory is in Grove, a village around 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-west of Oxford. It’s here that our race cars are built, maintained, and prepared for each Grand Prix.

The location puts us on the westward edge of the UK’s ‘motorsport valley’, with several other teams and suppliers nearby, and Silverstone just under an hour's drive away.

Williams moved into its Grove facility in the mid-1990s, with the site officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 20th October 1996. That means next season will mark 30 years since we began operating from this HQ.

In 2023, the process of updating the site and its technologies began to bring it closer in line with the demands of present day Formula 1.

Before Grove, our base was in Didcot, just 10km (6 miles) east. Frank Williams and Patrick Head’s first site in the town was on Station Road in an old carpet warehouse, before moving to a new base on Basil Hill Road in 1984.

Didcot had served Williams well through its formative and title-winning years of the 1980s and early 1990s. But by the mid-90s, we’d simply outgrown the space. The demands of modern Formula 1 required bigger workshops, more office space, and advanced R&D facilities – and the site at Grove provided exactly that.

The team’s legacy in the town is retained to this day. In 2012, a road a short distance from our old base was named “Sir Frank Williams Avenue” in honour of our legendary co-founder.

While our HQ is a working Formula 1 facility and not open for casual walk-ins, fans can get closer than they might think. Through the Williams Experience Centre, you can enjoy events such as our Race Day Experience, where you’ll follow the action in our state-of-the-art venue while surrounded by team history.

For those wanting to dive deeper into the legacy of Williams, the Heritage Collection Tour offers the chance to see some of the most famous cars in our history up close.