Welcome back mateIt's awesome to see how my thoughts have become reality in the meantime. Now they try to change to a GT3 plus racing series. How pathetic.
I still remember vividly when Williams won its first race. Silverstone 1979 with good old Clay Regazzoni at the wheel. Suddenly, the Williams was the car to beat. Good looking car too.
I've always liked that team and always had tremendous respect for Sir Frank. A true racer and one incredibly determined man. Someone who lived for F1. It was really sad to see the team steadily go down the standings and hit rock bottom over the last couple of seasons. And contrary to many, I don't blame Claire for the team's demise. No one could have done better considering what F1 has become. How can a private team compete when other spend 400 million dollars a year and employ 1000 people? It was mission impossible.
Very sad day for F1.
These questions need to become "Who do you WANT to win this week's F1 race". I tire of having to pick the obvious favorite to win : (
I remember that car, the FW07. It was Williams first ground effects car. Designed by Patrick Head and Neil Oatley. By the end of the year Alan Jones was winning everything in that car. If they would of had that car at the beginning of the year, Jody Scheckter and Ferrari wouldn't have won the 1979 WDC. In 1980 Jones, and Williams, took the FW07B to the WDC, and the Constructors Championship.
I think in Ferraris case it is because they were cheating and got caught, once their toys were taken away they realised they were relying too heavily on them and had gotten complacent in other areas leaving the rest of the package underdeveloped.How is it, when major teams like Williams and Ferrari fall off the cliff, they can't climb back up? It took Mclaren, about ..what??? 6 years to recover their collapse. How is it that a design choice failure cannot be rectified by the next season?