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1969 — 1976
Frank Williams Racing Cars
Customer Brabham and March entries; ended in financial collapse.
Williams RacingF1 team history & lineage
Frank Williams's second attempt at a team became the most successful independent constructor in the sport's history.
- Base
- Grove, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1977 by Frank Williams and Patrick Head
- Constructors' titles
- 9
- Drivers' titles
- 7
- Race wins
- 114
- Identities
- 4
Lineage
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1976
Wolf-Williams Racing
Walter Wolf buys in; Frank Williams leaves to start again.
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1977 — 2020
Williams Grand Prix Engineering
Nine constructors' titles as a fully independent team.
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2020 — Present
Williams Racing (Dorilton)
US investment ownership; name and Grove base retained.
The Long Version
Frank Williams Racing Cars ran customer cars from 1969 and collapsed into the Walter Wolf takeover in 1976.
Williams Grand Prix Engineering was founded in 1977 with Patrick Head; the FW07 delivered the first title in 1980.
The Renault-powered 1990s cars were the class of the field, winning five constructors' championships in six seasons.
The family sold to Dorilton Capital in 2020, ending 43 years of independent ownership; James Vowles now leads the rebuild.