{"id":499543,"date":"2021-12-03T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=395944"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:42:10","slug":"sir-frank-williams-racing-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sir-frank-williams-racing-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Frank Williams: Racing First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you think you\u2019re a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/grand-prix-drivers-the-hall-of-fame\/\">real racer<\/a>\u201d or dedicated fan to the sport, ponder this: just moments after getting married, Frank William\u2019s best friend David Brodie offered to pay for a celebratory lunch. Frank declined the offer and left his newlywed and friends to celebrate on their own; after all, there were cars to work on! Dedicated and\/or fanatic, you decide. And such was the mind of Frank Williams, a man who once said \u201cI just love racing, I love speed, I love the noise.\u201d Frank passed at the age of 79 on November 28, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The facts will be forever be embossed on the story of Formula 1: Williams\u2019 team would produce <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 drivers\u2019 championships, 114 victories, and 9 constructor titles. Versus today\u2019s politically rich sport steered by executives in glass-walled board rooms, Frank\u2019s achievements came from an era where a team\u2019s survival and performance could be traced to few individuals\u2019 tireless commitment and passion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial doom, marital problems, two driver fatalities and the eventual car accident that left Frank a paraplegic, none were too big to dampen his ambition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank started his career as a car-crazy teen buying and selling race car parts. Surrounding himself with wealthy peers, he was able to experience the world of racing reserved for those with means. Sure, he got behind the wheel himself and raced an Austin A35 to prove he was fast, but ultimately his reckless nature would deem he was better off outside the car than in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_621810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621810\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-621810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-3-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-621810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Jones, Frank Williams and Saudia-Williams car designer Patrick Head, are recieving their reliability award at Montreal, Canada in 1980.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Successful parts sales led to the buying and selling of used race cars. In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1966, he established Frank Williams Racing Cars Ltd. and began running both Formula 2 and Formula 3 cars on shoestring budgets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three years later in 1969, he acquired a used Brabham chassis and made his F1 debut at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/grand-prix-history-the-ground-effect-era\/\">Spanish Grand Prix<\/a> where his driver Piers Courage qualified 11<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but did not finish. Off to Monaco for round 3 where Piers qualified 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and fought his way to second place finish. Earning 6 world championship points on his second F1 outing, the 27-year-old Williams was heading up, but not for long. The following year, mechanical failure would result in Piers Courage running off course at Zandvoort and being killed. Soon the joke in the paddock was \u201cIf you want to ruin your career, drive a Williams\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As has been stated many times before, \u201cIf you want to make a little money in racing, start with a lot.\u201d By 1976, Frank had exhausted all financial avenues including using money made from selling his wife\u2019s flat (townhouse). A \u201cdeal with the devil\u201d was made with oil tycoon Walter Wolf, and after a terrible season, Frank was forced out of his own company. Salt on the wound came just months later when his driver Jody Scheckter drove the Williams car, now rebadged as a Wolf, to a win in the Argentine GP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After months of depression, Frank partnered with Belgian beer company Belle Vue, and created Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd.\u00a0 An old factory was found, and the team went to work with Patrick Head, known to be a bit of a bully but a genius with race cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_621809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621809\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-621809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-2-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-621809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Williams discusses strategy with driver Alan Jones \u00a9 Williams Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two years later in 1979, F1 victory would finally be bestowed upon Frank when at the British GP when Clay <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regazzoni took the chequered flag. Teammate Alan Jones would go on to win at Germany, Austria, Holland and Canada, resulting in 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> overall for driver\u2019s points. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many more Drivers and Constructors titles would follow in the early 1980s; Williams could do no wrong.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in the instant of a moment, Franks life would be turned upside down; literally. In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1986, Frank flipped a road car after leaving a pre-season test session in France. Paralyzed from the neck down and requiring assisted breathing, the hospital requested he be taken off life support. After his wife \u201cGinny\u201d\u00a0arranged for a flight back to England, he was transferred to a hospital where he had a tracheotomy. Recovery was slow, and he eventually regained some limited use of his shoulders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_621808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621808\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-621808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Frank-Williams-1-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-621808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the 2009 Italian Grand Prix, Sir Frank Williams monitors his team during practice. \u00a9 Photo: Glenn Dunbar\/LAT Photographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Frank \u201cbeing Frank\u201d, he returned to work the following season in 1987, only now restricted to a wheelchair. More determined than ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/williams-f1-at-autosport-international-2016\/\">Williams Racing<\/a> would win that year\u2019s Driver and Constructor\u2019s titles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proving it wasn\u2019t just a fluke, Williams would go on to win both the Constructors and driver\u2019s titles in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997. The team\u2019s last victory, now with daughter Claire as the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> team principal,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> took place in Barcelona Spain in 2012. In 2015, the British government knighted frank for his accomplishments in motorsports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A man of conviction beyond what most of us can imagine, the Sports Car Digest family expresses is remorse in losing such a motorsport icon. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams. \u00a0 16 April 1942 \u2013 28 November 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think you\u2019re a \u201creal racer\u201d or dedicated fan to the sport, ponder this: just moments after getting married, Frank William\u2019s best friend David Brodie offered to pay for a celebratory lunch. Frank declined the offer and left his newlywed and friends to celebrate on their own; after all, there were cars to work on! Dedicated and\/or fanatic, you decide. And such was the mind of Frank Williams, a man who once said \u201cI just love racing, I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":621807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,18114,18330,16910],"tags":[17152,18435,12436,18107,16791,3383,21472],"class_list":["post-499543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-people","category-profiles-car-culture","category-williams","tag-car-culture","tag-people","tag-frank-williams","tag-people-profiles","tag-profiles","tag-williams","tag-williams-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sir Frank Williams: Racing First<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sir Frank Williams has left us with fond memories of his achievements in the world of racecar driving. 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