Frank Williams
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Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams (born 16 April 1942) is a British businessman, former racing car racer, and mechanic.
He is the creator and team principal of the Williams Formula One team.
Early life
Williams was born in South Shields, County Durham, on April 16, 1942. His father served as an active Royal Air Force soldier at the time, while his mother taught at a school. After the breakdown of his parents' marriage, Williams was partially raised by his aunt and uncle in Jarrow.
He spent the majority of his later life at St Joseph's College in Dumfries, Scotland. A friend of Williams gave him a ride in his Jaguar XK150 in late 1950s, sparking his obsession with fast cars.
Personal life and death
In 1967, Williams met Virginia Berry. They married in 1974. Jonathan and Jaime's sons, as well as Claire, who would go on to be the deputy team principal of Williams Grand Prix Engineering's future Formula One team.
Williams had been in a wheelchair since a car accident in the South of France on March 8, 1986, rendering him tetraplegic. When the incident occurred, he was driving with team sponsorship manager Peter Windsor in a hired Ford Sierra 1600 family saloon vehicle from the Paul Ricard Circuit to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. Williams had been on the circuit to witness the team's latest Williams FW11's testing, but he was returning to the airport after the trials because he wanted to compete in a half marathon in London the next day.
On the ride to the airport, he lost control of the hire vehicle on a slight left-hand kink in the road, clipping a low stone wall, causing the car to leave the highway. The vehicle started rolling onto the driver's side after an eight-foot (2.4 meter) decline between the road and a field. Williams stayed conscious, but was immediately aware that due to fuel leakage, he would not move and was afraid of fire. He suffered a spinal fracture between the fourth and fifth vertebra after being forced between his seat and the collapsing roof. While waiting for the ambulance services, Windsor, who had only suffered minor injuries, pulled Williams from the vehicle. Virginia travelled with Patrick Head to the French hospital, afraid that Williams was going to die. She orchestrated his urgent repatriation to England, where doctors at Royal London Hospital performed a tracheotomy, which then allowed his lungs to be drained of fluid, almost certainly saving his life. As a result of the crash, Williams required constant care and physical dependence on others.
Virginia wrote A Different Kind of Life, an autobiography published in 1991, in which she chronicles her involvement in the Formula One team's formative years and her husband's near-fatal crash. Williams decided not to publish her account during her lifetime, instead preferring to forget the past. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and died on March 7, 2013, at the age of 66.
On the morning of 28 November 2021, Williams was admitted to hospital in Surrey and died two days later, at the age of 79.
Motorsports career
Williams founded Frank Williams Racing Cars in 1966 after a brief career as a designer and mechanic, and was financed by his work as a traveling grocery salesman. Piers Courage was a racer for many years in Formula Two and Formula Three, including Piers Courage. Williams bought a Brabham Formula One chassis, which Courage rode through the 1969 Formula One season, finishing in second place twice.
Williams began working with Alejandro de Tomaso in 1970. Williams' friendship with de Tomaso came to an end after Courage's death at the Dutch Grand Prix in the same year. He raced Henri Pescarolo with a chassis bought from March Engineering in 1971; the Politoys FX3 by Len Bailey was the first F1 car built by Williams Works in 1972. At its first run, Pescarolo crashed and destroyed it.
After being disconnection for unpaid bills, Williams, who was short on cash and conducting team work from a telephone box, turned to Marlboro and Iso Rivolta, an Italian car company, for sponsorship. Though they had pledged their help, they were unable to arrive in time. Williams met Walter Wolf, the Canadian oil magnate, in 1976. Although the team continued to function, it no longer belonged to Williams. Engineer Patrick Head, a member of his staff, left in 1977, along with one of his employees. Both companies purchased an empty carpet warehouse in Didcot, Oxfordshire, and announced the formation of Williams Grand Prix Engineering, a new team to compete in Formula One.
Clay Regazzoni led the Cosworth-powered Williams FW07 to victory at the 1979 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the team's first victory. Both the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship were held in 1980, with Australian Alan Jones winning the drivers' championship. The team won six more drivers' titles and eight more constructors' championships between 1981 and 1997. He also oversaw the team's win by a total of 114 Grand Prix victories.
Williams was charged with murder in Italy in May 1994, but he was disqualified after several years. Any chassis from the 1995 Williams FW17 to 2012 paid homage to Senna's death in the form of a small Senna logo on its front wing supports, or somewhere else.
Williams announced in March 2012 that he would step down from the board of Williams F1 and be replaced by his daughter Claire Williams, although he will continue with the team in the role of team principal. Williams also stopped having any involvement with the Williams team when it was purchased in September 2020.