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Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams CBE (16 April 1942 – 28 November 2021) was a British businessman, racing car driver, and the founder of the Williams Formula One team. He was the team principal from its foundation in 1977 until 2020. During that period, the team won nine constructors' championships and seven drivers' championships.
28 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams – the longest-serving Team Principal Formula 1 has ever seen – has died at the age of 79. Sir Frank marked 50 years as an F1 team boss in 2019, having run two teams in that time, the latter of which went on to win seven drivers’ titles and nine constructors’ championships.
28 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams, founder and former team principal of the Williams Racing Formula 1 team, has died aged 79. He built the team named after him into one of the most successful in the sport.
28 Nov 2021 · Frank Williams, the founder of the Williams Formula 1 team and the longest-serving team principal the sport has ever seen, has died at 79. The Williams F1 team, founded in 1977,...
28 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams, who has died at the age of 79, was one of the most revered figures Formula 1 has ever seen. From humble beginnings financing his first racing team with earnings from his job as a grocery salesman, Williams made it all the way to Formula 1, before launching Williams Grand Prix Engineering in 1977 alongside Patrick Head.
29 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams, who built team named after him into one of the most successful in F1, has died aged 79; Williams team salute much loved and inspirational figurehead while more tributes...
28 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams, founder of the Formula 1 racing team which bears his name, has died aged 79. Under his leadership, Williams won the Formula One drivers' title seven times and the constructors' championship on nine occasions. He marked 50 years as an F1 team boss in 2019.
28 Nov 2021 · READ MORE: Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79. He would cope brilliantly with the way in which that life-changing crash transformed him from a super-athlete who regularly beat the drivers in running races at Grands Prix into a wheelchair-bound man who became one of the world’s oldest quadriplegics.
29 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams obituary: F1 team owner legend dies aged 79. The outpouring of affection for Sir Frank Williams, following Sunday’s announcement of his death at the age of 79, was a clear...
28 Nov 2021 · Sir Frank Williams was a totemic figure in British motorsport, a personality with as powerful a hold over the nation’s sporting imagination as Enzo Ferrari enjoyed in Italy.
