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Not to be confused with Frank Williams Racing Cars, formed by Frank Williams in 1967.
Williams-Toyota
Full name AT&T WilliamsF1 Team
Base Grove, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Team principal/s Frank Williams
Patrick Head
Technical director Sam Michael
2009 Formula One season
Race drivers 16. Nico Rosberg
17. Kazuki Nakajima
Test drivers Nico Hülkenberg
Chassis Williams FW31
Engine Toyota RVX-09
Tyres Bridgestone
2010 Formula One season
Race drivers Rubens Barrichello[1]
Nico Hülkenberg[1]
Test drivers TBA
Chassis Williams FW32
Engine Cosworth
Tyres Bridgestone
Formula One World Championship Career
Debut 1978 Argentine Grand Prix
Latest race 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Races competed 520
Constructors' Championships 9 (1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997)
Drivers' Championships 7 (1980, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997)
Race victories 113
Pole positions 125
Fastest laps 130
2009 position 7th (34.5 points)
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WilliamsF1, the trading name of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd., is a Formula One (F1) motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. The team was formed in 1977 after two earlier and, compared with WilliamsF1's achievements, unsuccessful F1 operations, Frank Williams Racing Cars and Walter Wolf Racing. All of WilliamsF1 chassis are called "FW" then a number, the FW being the initials of team owner, Frank Williams.

Williams' first race was the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, where the new team ran a March chassis for Patrick Nève. Williams started manufacturing its own cars the following year, and Switzerland's Clay Regazzoni won Williams' first race at the 1979 British Grand Prix. At the 1997 British Grand Prix, Canadian Jacques Villeneuve won the team's 100th race, making Williams one of only three teams in Formula One, alongside Ferrari and fellow British team McLaren, to win 100 races. Williams won nine Constructor's titles between 1980 and 1997. This stood as a record until Ferrari surpassed it in 2000.

Many famous racing drivers have driven for Williams, including Australia's Alan Jones; Finland's Keke Rosberg; Britain's Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Jenson Button; France's Alain Prost; Brazil's Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, and Canada's Jacques Villeneuve, each of whom, with the exception of Senna and Button, have captured one Drivers' title with the team. After Senna died in a Williams car in a crash at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, Frank Williams, Patrick Head and designer Adrian Newey were all accused of manslaughter. The trial finally closed in 2005, when Williams, Head and Newey were cleared of any wrongdoing.

Williams have worked with many notable engine manufacturers, most successfully with Renault: Williams won five of their nine constructors' titles with the French company. Along with Ferrari, McLaren, and Renault (formerly Benetton), Williams is one of the "Big Four" teams that won every constructors' championship between 1979 and 2008 and every driver's championship from 1984 to 2008. Williams remains the only one independently owned, as the other three "factory teams" have been set up by or bought out by major automobile manufacturers.