As predicted here the protests against the diffusers of the Brawn, Williams and Toyota cars have been thrown out by the Melbourne stewards. But this does not mean that the matter is closed. The plaintiff teams have appealed and that means that the three teams whose diffusers were questioned will race under appeal on Sunday. [...]
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The diffuser 3 are innocent!
Posted in BrawnGP, Toyota, Williams on March 26, 2009 | 27 Comments »
Tapas and optimism from Williams
Posted in Nakajima, Rosberg, Williams, tagged F1, Rosberg, Williams on February 26, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Just had a very enjoyable day at Williams HQ in Grove where a few of us were treated to a series of briefings by the team. The drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima were there, we had a talk around the car by technical director Sam Michael and then a briefing on the team’s [...]
Latest quotes- Williams discuss RBS pullout
Posted in Discussion, Williams, tagged RBS, Williams on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Williams CEO Adam Parr has just done a conference call with the media on the news that RBS is to pull out of F1 at the end of 2010.
“It isn’t good news for the sport for a sponsor like RBS to announce it’s withdrawing. We’ve suspected for some time that there wasn’t much chance of [...]
Williams holds onto RBS until end of 2010
Posted in F1 News, Teams, Williams, tagged RBS, Williams on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Williams has just announced that RBS will stay with the team this season and next, but that the sponsorship will finish at the end of 2010.
RBS is conducting a review of all its sponsorships in light of the critical situation in the banking sector and the huge corporate losses shortly to be announced.
The partnership with [...]
What’s with the Williams-bashing?
Posted in Discussion, Williams on February 16, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I’ve seen a fair bit of negativity around Williams lately in the media. I guess you can see why on one level, when you look at some of their sponsors; Royal Bank of Scotland, which is 70% owned by the British government, Baugar the Icelandic investment vehicle which was hammered by the credit crunch and [...]
Williams back in winners’ circle!
Posted in Race Weekend, Teams, Williams, tagged Williams on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Williams picked up their first winners’ trophy in a while on Sunday, emerging victorious in the annual F1 mechanics’ football tournament at Milton Keynes. The event is organised by Grant Mundy, who is number one mechanic on David Coulthard’s car at Red Bull.
A full compliment of sixteen teams representing most of the grid, took part [...]
