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Williams Page #5
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Frank Williams' team
is at its lowest ebb
the cars are well down the grid
Frank came round to see me
"and said Brode I can't carry on"
and he had a bit of paper
with debts on it and they were huge,
and then overnight uh... this guy
who had been creeping around with Frank
and giving him
little bits of money, Walter Wolf,
did something that happens
in business all the time.
Walter bought out Frank's debt
and took control
of the Williams Formula 1 team.
Walter was clearly
he'd made a fortune many, many
tens of millions by himself.
I thought let's give this a crack.
But by half way through 1976,
it was very plain to Walter
that the race team wasn't running well,
and that Frank didn't have
the capability to turn it around.
And then Frank went to the factory,
put his key in the front door,
it wouldn't work. Then,
the side window opened and a guy said,
Frank that's your things there, you can't
come into the factory,
you're banned from the factory now.
He couldn't believe it, he'd been
locked out of his own factory,
it was his life, his life was in that box
and inside that factory.
And then six weeks later, Frank's car,
which was renamed 'The Wolf',
went down to South America
won its first race.
The thing that Frank had been living for,
for all those years.
One day,
Ginny phoned me up and she said,
Brode I've got a lot of problems
with Frank, he's in a fit of depression,
"he hasn't got out of
his pyjamas for six weeks."
Sol turned up 11 o'clock
and I looked at him and I said,
What the f***'s going on here Frank?
"You've got your pyjamas on."
"And he said Brode, I can't quite
get my mind together about things"
and I knew what was killing him.
I said to Frank,
"Look there must be some way
you can get into Formula 1 again."
"And he said Well I don't know,
I don't know" he said,
but I've been thinking about it
and I might be able to get 185,000
out of a Belgian beer company
called Belle-Vue
but we'd have to have a Belgian guy
called Patrick Nve as driver.
"I said So what?
That's the start of a new Formula 1 team."
Do you think so?
I said, Yeah Frank,
"I said get out of them poxy pyjamas
and go to work, do what you're best at."
We sat
at my kitchen table and I said right,
"You do a list of Formula 1 team
names and I'll do a list."
And what was the name
that you came up with?
Oh it was really tough,
very testing, very brain stretching
but we kept it
Williams Grand Prix Operating Limited.
I said
Right I'm taking 2 days off.
We're gonna go find a factory."
"Yeah!" he went.
It was very much
hand to mouth but uh...
I loved what I was doing
I'm very optimistic
and I felt it would all come right.
At the end of the day,
when you're a racer, you're a racer,
- it's a bit of a bug.
- A bug?
It gets you.
140,000 fans packed into Silverstone,
so Hamilton's on the right as we
look at it, Nico Rosburg on the left,
about to get under way,
lights out, away we go
and who's it gonna be,
it's a good start from the second row,
the Williams and Massa,
Williams out getting
both cars past both Mercedes.
Massa leads,
Bottas trying to get
second from Hamilton,
Hamilton in a bit
of trouble but he's fighting back
but we have a race on our hands,
what a start from the Williams guys.
- I think Valtteri is quicker.
- He is quicker, he should pass them.
He should pass them.
Be careful, be careful! And he's off!
Hamilton goes off in his attempts
to try and rest the lead
and that might give an
opportunity here for Valtteri Bottas.
Bottas goes into second place.
And up front ifs Williams
one and two at the moment.
Bottas comes in from the race lead
as Lewis Hamilton
continues around the track,
let's see how the stop goes
for Valtteri Bottas, ifs pretty good,
Hamilton's already along the start
finish straight, he's alongside,
Hamilton retakes the lead
and where does Bottas come back out?
He comes back out behind
his team mate, Felipe Massa.
Oh, Hamilton is pulling away in front.
Lewis Hamilton
he had to fight for it,
ultimately Williams have
to settle for fourth and fifth
but you have to feel for Williams.
Patrick Head is
the technical genius inside Williams,
the engineer swot who
bestows power
on the charismatic leader.
When I met Patrick,
which is the best thing,
apart from marrying the wife I married,
was the best day
to ever happen to me in my life.
He was a gifted engineer.
Patrick is a person who,
he doesn't suffer fools gladly...
Oh he's a bully, if he wanted it
and it wasn't coming
he'd bully his way through.
A lot of people are frightened of him,
you know he's a broad guy
and he can be quite aggressive looking
but his character is not one that
junior employees found comfortable,
you know what I mean, they knew when
they had made a mistake.
I think most of
my father's forbears were military,
one of them General Michael Head
had been a soldier under Wellington,
I think not wanting to fail was a very
strong motivation.
This car's half a second slower
on the stop watch than the other car.
Yeah.
The thing that was unique,
that Patrick brought to the show,
he was responsible
for making Formula 1 reliable.
So Frank's cars
almost instantly finish races,
which they hadn't been doing before
and that's
where life changed for Williams.
kept ahead with innovative designs,
the most recent
being the aerodynamic skirt,
along the ground
between the front and rear wheels,
creating a phenomenon
called ground effect.
For Frank Dernie a simple graph
shows the rise in suction
under the Williams wood skirts.
If you remove the skirt you actually
get so little flow in this area...
The thing
that really made a big difference
was a fairing
along the side of the engine
which allowed
the flow to remain attached
all the way to the back and I tested
that in a wind tunnel test
just before Silverstone in 1979
and it was the biggest gain
of performance I've ever seen on a car
so I rushed back from the wind tunnel
and drew the parts
and we got them made so we
could use them at Silverstone.
and hopping in it for the first time
What was
the difference with the car'?
It was better
it was just better.
trying to be technical
because I'll look like a complete goose.
We went to the test
and in the morning,
everybody had been running and I think
the best lap time would of been uh...,
I dunno 12.9 or something
by somebody and Alan went out,
I remember the time absolutely,
he did a one minute 11.88 just like that,
bang, and the rest of the pit lane
were doing mid 13s
and it was most peculiar because
you were standing there with your thing
and everybody went...
and looked down at us,
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