THE END OF AN ERA
Frank Williams started with nothing – more than once – but eventually came to lead a Formula 1 team that won 16 world titles and 114 World Championship Grands Prix. Along the way, his enthusiasm, tenacity and ability to provide championship-winning cars for seven different drivers endeared Williams to motorsport fans like no other team principal.
Imbued with a love of speed and cars from an early age, initially, Frank set out to become a racing driver, but a succession of crashes and incidents in saloon cars and Formula 3 brought the realisation that optimism seriously outweighed skill.
Living hand-to-mouth as a wheelerdealer in racing car parts, a skill in several
