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    The Williams FW07 was a ground effect Formula One racing car designed by Patrick Head, Frank Dernie, and Neil Oatley for the 1979 F1 season. It was closely...
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    team's first win came when Clay Regazzoni drove the Cosworth-powered Williams FW07 to victory at the 1979 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Their first...
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  • Ojjeh's TAG Group, Williams team Engineering Director at the time Patrick Head was able to build a competitive engine for Williams FW07. The engine project...
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    (191 mi). The race was won by Australian driver Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07. It was Jones' sixth World Championship victory. Jones won by 24 seconds...
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    of the same Williams FW07, as he raced in Spain. Having switched to RAM Racing for the Aurora series as well, de Villota brought the FW07 home, on the...
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    Towards the end of 1978, Frank Williams recruited Frank Dernie to join Patrick Head in the design office. Head designed the FW07 chassis and gearbox for the...
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    Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works RAM Racing-prepared Williams FW07, but failed to qualify. She also raced in the 1981 non-world championship...
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    points in scored using the Williams FW07. "Patrick Head". Motor Sport Magazine. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2019. "Williams FW06". 14 June 2018. Retrieved...
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  • Championship was won by the Spaniard Emilio de Villota who drove a Williams FW07 entered by RAM Racing. Points are awarded to the top ten classified...
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    1982 World Drivers' Championship. The FW08 was a development of the Williams FW07 but featured a shorter wheelbase and much stiffer chassis to cope with...
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    at the Argentine and South African Grands Prix, behind Alan Jones' Williams FW07-DFV and the turbocharged Renault RE20 of René Arnoux. At the fourth...
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    Clay Regazzoni (category Williams Formula One drivers)
    Champion Mario Andretti. Frank Williams gave Regazzoni his final drive in a competitive car alongside Alan Jones. The Williams FW07 proved to be very competitive...
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    his F1 début. This was the first Williams car supplied with Michelin tyres since the FW07 in 1981. 2001 was Williams' second year with engine partners...
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    Alan Jones (racing driver) (category Williams Formula One drivers)
    Jones helped put the team on the Formula One map in 1979 using the Williams FW07, after winning four races in the span of five events near the end of...
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  • Keegan Arrows A1-Cosworth 13/15 5 6 6 4 65 2 1980 Emilio de Villota Williams FW07-Cosworth 12/12 6 5 9 4 85 33 1981 no championship 1982 British F1 Championship...
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  • were little more than heavy and insufficiently stiff copies of the Williams FW07 for Mick Ralph and John McDonald's RAM Racing. The car was driven initially...
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    the JS11. Williams also expanded to two cars and signed Clay Regazzoni to partner Alan Jones while Patrick Head finished off the new FW07 design. Also...
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    Grand Prix. The 1980 race was won by Australia's Alan Jones driving the Williams FW07B he drove to win the 1980 Formula One World Championship, the race...
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  • in 1982 when the team was struggling with overweight copies of the Williams FW07. He claims to have engineered the cars to the state they should have...
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    A return to the Formula One World Championship with RAM driving their Williams FW07B yielded little in the way of results, as did a few races with March...
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    went back to basics and designed the Lotus 91, based in part on the Williams FW07 and Lotus' own 88 design. Powered by the Ford Cosworth DFV and using...
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    the design of the Lotus 79, also incorporating some elements of the Williams FW07's sidepods. It was completed in time for the Italian Grand Prix that...
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    Championship. After racing in the British F1 Championship in 1980 with a Williams FW07, and winning in Silverstone, he moved to Formula One in 1981, with March...
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  • Desiré Wilson Car manufacturer: Williams Engine manufacturer: Ford Tyre manufacturer: Goodyear Car model: Williams FW07 Car number: 43 Qualifying position:...
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    chassis. RAM Racing entered the British Grand Prix with a 1979-spec Williams FW07, driven by Rupert Keegan. They stayed for the rest of the season, even...
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    cars led first by the Ligier JS11, then the Ferrari 312T4 and then the Williams FW07 — a car heavily based on the 79 outclassed the Lotus. Although the car...
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  • a BBC Horizon documentary broadcast on 9 March 1981, featuring the Williams FW07, and likewise narrated by Martin Jarvis and produced by Patrick Uden;...
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    undesired effects of exposing the drivers to even larger g-forces than the Williams FW07 or Brabham BT49 and making the car tend to overuse its tyres. The engine...
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    from a chassis that was not rigid enough, compared to the dominant Williams FW07. Lotus therefore introduced a new chassis, built out of carbon fibre...
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    Again the car was fast and competitive, but the Brabham BT49 and the Williams FW07 proved to be the cars to beat, with Alan Jones taking the world championship...
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