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The cars of the 2017 Formula One World Championship will be very different to anything we’ve seen in the past several years. Among the changes are longer, wider bodies and much wider tires. The changes are aimed at increasing downforce and grip, which should lead to higher speeds and thus...

Mercedes AMG has confirmed that current Williams driver Valtteri Bottas will fill the seat of retired reigning champion Nico Rosberg in the 2017 Formula One World Championship. Rosberg stepped down at the end of the 2016 after scoring his first title. Bottas will be teaming up with Lewis Hamilton...

The Mercedes AMG Formula One team on Tuesday confirmed that its Technical Director Paddy Lowe has stepped down. Lowe is currently on garden leave but is expected to join another team. It’s rumored he may end up at Williams, which is using Mercedes power units. “I have had a...

Brazilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa might be planning to hold off on retirement for another year in order to continue driving for Williams. Massa in September announced that his contract with Williams would expire at the end of the 2016 season and that he had no intention to renew it. Shortly...

Felipe Massa confirmed today that he will retire from Formula One at the end of the 2016 season. Speaking to reporters at the Italian Grand Prix, the Brazilian driver, whose current contract with Williams expires at the end of this year, said he had already decided some months ago that this would...

Williams is the first to reveal its new car for the 2015 Formula One World Championship. The British team, which reigning world champion Mercedes AMG sees as its biggest threat going into the new season, is sticking with a Mercedes power unit and has gone with an evolutionary design for its latest...

British Formula One team Williams has made steady progress this season, no doubt thanks to its decision to run superior Mercedes AMG engines as well as its new blood in the form of Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa. But the team, founded in 1977 by Sir Frank Williams, who still serves as team...

This year is the 20th since the death of Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna, and to mark the occasion British team Williams will run a special logo on its car throughout the 2014 season. Since Senna’s death at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in Italy, Williams has placed the iconic Senna...

It was only a year ago that Martini Racing, the official racing brand of Italian distillery Martini & Rossi, the maker of some very fine vermouth, made its return to international motorsport, teaming up with long-time partner Porsche to run its famous blue and red livery on a car raced by...

Williams is the second Formula One team to reveal its new race car for the 2014 season, following on the heels of Force India, which showed off its car yesterday. Williams’ new racer is called the FW36 and it comes powered by an engine and Energy Recovery System (ERS) sourced from...

Last month reports emerged claiming Nissan’s next GT-R, the R36, would be introduced as early as the 2016 model year and that it would likely come with some form of vehicle electrification in order to boost its performance while also cutting back on emissions and fuel consumption. In fact, a...

The latest iteration of the Nissan GT-R can already hit 60 mph from rest in a blistering 2.7 seconds but that number is expected to drop with the arrival of a more potent GT-R NISMO model currently in the works. Set for a reveal at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show in November, the GT-R NISMO is tipped to...

Two of the biggest names in motorsport, Williams and NISMO, have announced today a collaboration aimed at developing high-performance road cars. Williams’ technology offshoot, Williams Advanced Engineering, will join the engineering development team from NISMO to help develop new...

Williams is the latest Formula One team to get involved with the new Formula E Championship, whose inaugural season commences next year. McLaren has already announced it will supply the electric motors for the Formula E race cars while Renault is helping to optimize their performance and electronic...

The Williams F1 Team has confirmed it’s signed a deal with Mercedes-Benz to use the German firm’s Formula One engines from the start of the 2014 season. Mercedes was one of the first to unveil its new turbocharged V-6 engine developed for next year’s season, which sees radical new...

The 11th and final car contending the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship has been revealed this week in the form of the Williams FW35. The British team’s latest car was unveiled yesterday at Circuit de Catalunya in Spain ahead of a busy testing schedule planned for the remainder of the...

Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas will replace Bruno Senna, nephew of the legendary Ayrton Senna, as one of the drivers for the Williams F1 Team in the 2013 Formula One season. Bottas will be joined by current Williams driver Pastor Maldonado in the new season. This will be Maldonado’s third...

This week most of the teams competing in the 2012 FIA Formula 1 World Championship are in Jerez, Spain, testing their latest race cars and further evaluating their drivers ahead of the season opener on March 18 in Australia. We now have the first details on the new FW34 racer from Williams, which...

Bruno Senna will join Pastor Maldonado at Williams F1 in the 2012 FIA Formula 1 season, having been confirmed today as the replacement for Rubens Barrichello. The confirmation ends speculation that he may miss out on the 2012 season after his former employer, Lotus Renault GP, signed on with Kimi...

Following a career that spanned more than three decades, Patrick Head is stepping down from Williams F1 to focus on his role with Williams' hybrid business.