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Secrets And History Of The Williams F1 Legend - Episode 2

Autosport F1 & Motorsport

Motorsport Network

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4723 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Autosport’s Kevin Turner hosts F1 pundit Karun Chandhok and Jonathan Williams, son of team founder Sir Frank, for this month's podcast series on the legendary Williams squad. Jonathan Williams provides plenty of behind-the-scenes insights on his father, key drivers and major events, including what really happened at the controversial 1997 season finale. In Episode 2, the trio discuss the "boom" period of the team in the mid-to-late 1980s, with the arrivals of Honda and eventually Renault, their first "star" driver in Nelson Piquet and the emotions of the family for the famous 1986 British Grand Prix and Sir Frank's return. And just how did a Williams end up being driven around Ferrari's Fiorano test track? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Watermark Magazine, Allspotor.com, I'm Kevin Turner, and this is the Allsport Podcast.

0:34.4

Well, welcome to the second episode of our look back at one of the great Formula One teams in history,

0:42.3

and that is Williams. And join me once again are Jonathan Williams and Karoom Chandok. We did the early days,

0:48.5

the late 70s and early 80s. So it makes sense that we'll now going to I guess the well second golden period really

0:57.4

Jonathan of Williams in F1 when when what do you see is the key start point of going from the

1:03.5

I guess it's Honda isn't it going from the the sort of the green and white even though they

1:07.6

were still green and white to start with it's Honda's arrival for for 84 that really sort of starts the next era, isn't it?

1:13.9

I think so. It's the first major manufacturer partnership that we had. When we converted

1:21.1

the second factory on site at Grove that was created for BMW's late 1990s Le Mans program.

1:30.3

We turned that in 2002 into a new museum and we actually laid it out in sections

1:37.3

and the sections were actually reference to the manufacturers.

1:40.3

So we had a Cosworth era, a Honda era, a Renault era and a BMW era, and we to that point fitted the cars into it as such.

1:49.0

So I think a major manufacturer partnering with Williams taking us into the turbo era, to which we were quite late comers, but I think that sort of reflected in particular Patrick's philosophy that we had to do it properly.

2:02.6

We did, I think, explore being customer teams of both Ferrari and BMW.

2:07.6

But I think Patrick led the narrative that really we needed to be sort of a works team, a factory supported team.

2:15.6

So Honda's arrival quickly followed by Nelson Pekey's arrival

2:19.2

in what was year three of Honda, as we said earlier, being the first sort of superstar world

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