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I don't think she did it,

she didn't wanna do it

because she wanted fame or adulation,

she just did it because she wanted to,

people to know the full story.

'His memory of the early days

after his accident is blurred and vague,

he has never asked me

what it was like in France

or in the London hospital

or what it has been like for me

these past few years, now he will know.'

Have you,

have you read her book?

No, I don't want to.

Why do you not want to read it?

That's a peculiar emotion.

I think, I would like him to read it,

um because I think that

it would be respectful to Mum

um to understand

what she did go through but I just,

you know I think,

I dunno I just think it's probably

too much for Dad to read it,

he doesn't feel any need to,

but I wish he would.

Do you think you

ever will read it?

Maybe, before I die, but not,

not imminently that's for sure.

That picture must be.

Frank's first Grand Prix

after his accident,

big change of life for all of us.

When Frank appeared in the

wheelchair the crowd just went crazy.

It's great fun to be with the team,

it's great fun to be

at a race track again.

Back at the track,

Frank Williams savoured

his team's success

for the first time this season,

Piquet and Mansell took first

and third places in practice.

He did have

a really sort of symbolic visit

but he was determined to be there

because he wanted

the world of Formula 1

to know that he was still around

and ostensibly still in control

but he played no part at all and

was very much a show appearance.

But my father only attended

on the Friday, the practice day

and that was all

he was physically up for.

The lights for red and go!

And Piquet leads,

Mansell is second into clearways...

The two Williams cars

in their battle for leadership,

toe-to-toe, eyeball to eyeball,

almost wheel to wheel.

Nelson and Nigel

really, really started

to slug it out with one another.

Nigel wasn't afraid to be half an inch,

an inch away from anybody

if he had to be, erm, and he was

and it was serious motor racing between

the two Williams Honda drivers.

And there he goes,

Nigel Mansell

leads the British Grand Prix

from the man

who is his greatest competition.

Piquet's going for it as they go down

into the right hander

at Paddock and Mansell's

absolutely on the racing line,

there are no orders between these two.

From the pit wall,

that was the first time I remember

not actually enjoying the race

because I was so sweaty palmed

as to what might happen

between the two of them

and I think Frank

was back home watching it on TV,

probably as nervous as the rest of

the team was at that point.

Piquet going through on the inside

but he's gonna be blocked

"and he has been

and Manse" holds the lead. Great stuff.

Nigel Mansell exits the last corner,

"crosses the line

and Manse" is the winner.

Great stuff.

Wonderful drive.

Nigel has broken his back,

he's broken his neck,

he is now number one

in the world championship

and just listen to the crowd.

After the race it wasn't normal

for a team manager

or team representative

to be on the podium,

but on this occasion,

because Frank had been there

for the test and because it was Nigel

and because it was Brands Hatch,

Ginny was invited up,

to take the Constructor's Trophy

on behalf of Frank.

Now behind Alain Prost,

the woman is Ginny Williams.

You'll just see her in a minute I expect.

There's Ginny Williams and,

and Patrick Head,

the designer of the

winning Williams car. Oh what a day.

And there

is Ginny holding up the trophy.

To me, that photograph is one

of my favourite photographs of Ginny

because she's got this expression

on her face where it's just like, yes!

It was a tremendous moment

because of what

Ginny had gone through,

because the accident

just didn't happen to Frank,

it happened to everybody

but the closest person it happened to

was his dear wife.

Hi Preston.

How we doing

there Jimmy Jock the Noo?

Alright thanks Frank.

Is Biggles under control is he?

Very hard work isn't it?

And the best therapy

Frank ever had

was being back at his desk with a phone

that Nelson gave him actually,

which allowed him to

tap numbers on, big numbers on a pad

and he had a headset on,

make his own phone calls.

Mentally he said,

So long as I'm on the phone, so long as

I can talk, I'm going motor racing.

Basil Hill Road

Mentally, how do you think

the disability has affected Frank?

I did ask, ask him a couple of times

when we,

when we are alone in the car if,

if he sometimes thinks of running again

and stuff like that

but he said he gave

that thought up completely now,

he is completely in peace

with the situation

and I think this is also

what you get from him,

he's not sitting there and thinks

"Oh sh*t I should have, I should have,

just got on with it."

I can truthfully,

and I'm not bragging,

I had a major business on my mind,

a racing team,

it's like having a hard-on all your life?

It's like having

a hard-on all your life?

Aren't you jealous of what I do?

Running a Grand Prix team,

owning a Grand Prix team,

I run racing cars

and world famous drivers all of the time,

it's, I think it's a great privilege.

You know

it's Jamie's birthday today dad?

Dad you need to choose

which cards you want to give him.

Is he about 28?

He's about 32

actually, dad now, yeah.

That's my signature..

It's a bit drunkard but...

Jamie, you write that, Jamie.

So dad always gives us money

for birthdays, all the time.

Am I giving some money.

You're giving him money,

I've organised it.

- Oh.

- So dad had his way,

because he has no idea how,

the value of money anymore,

because he hasn't been

into a shop for about 45 years,

he would give us all 50p

so we have to do it for him.

That, Claire,

that's absolutely untrue.

It is true, but you don't really know

what things cost anymore do you?

Not really no.

So how much does

a newspaper cost?

Um up to 15 pence.

15 pence?

I personally just wanted to say,

along with, I know my dad,

just thank you so much for all

the work that you've done

so far this year.

I know it's been a really, really

long season for everybody.

I know maybe there's

a little bit of disappointment

that we weren't

a little bit better this year,

but I think everybody needs

to really remember where we came from,

and it's only been two years since

we were ninth in the championship.

When Williams were third

in the championship in Abu Dhabi

I went into the garage

at the end of the race

and I stood at the back

until all the TV cameras

had finished with Claire

and I said I think mum's in here

and she's watching over you

and she's thrilled.

I was just saying to dad,

it feels like forever

since she's been gone,

I think Mum would've been

a brilliant Team Principal you know,

I think she would've been probably the

best Team Principal.

Formula 1 had ever seen

if you'd just let her,

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