The racing stable founder and long-time Formula 1 team boss Frank Williams is dead. Williams died on Sunday at the age of 79, his family said.
the formula 1 mourns Frank Williams. The former team boss and co-owner of the traditional British racing team of the same name died on Sunday at the age of 79, as his family announced. Until his official retirement in September 2020, he was the oldest team boss in Formula 1. He has not been in a race for a long time Motorsport-King class. His health had deteriorated over the past few years. He was admitted to the hospital on Friday and died peacefully there on Sunday morning, the message said.
Racing stable was sold to US investor
“Today we remember our beloved and inspiring figurehead. Frank will be sorely missed,” said the Williams family. His daughter Claire, deputy team boss, has represented him on Grand Prix weekends for a long time. After the Italian Grand Prix in Monza 2020, the family withdrew from the racing team that had been sold to a US investor. An era came to an end. Frank Williams has been in a wheelchair since a car accident in 1986 on the way back from test drives in Le Castellet, France. Since then he has always had to be looked after.
For his racing team drove among others Nico Rosberg, Ralf Schumacher, Nick Heidfeld and Nico Hulkenberg. Legends like Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost won titles in Williams. Williams won the constructors ‘championship a total of nine times and the drivers’ championship seven times, most recently both in 1997. The motorsport icon celebrated 114 Grand Prix victories.
Williams team followed the competition last
Frank Williams and the racing team, which he founded in 1977 with Patrick Head, experienced the blackest hour on May 1, 1994. The Brazilian Formula 1 icon Ayrton Senna died in Imola after an accident in a Williams car.
The British officer’s son Frank Williams was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999. He was also honored by the Legion of Honor for his services in motorsport in collaboration with the French engine manufacturer Renault. Williams’ racing career began as a pilot in the Formula 2 and Formula 3 began. In the past few years, the Williams team mostly only drove at the bottom of the field in Formula 1.