Sir Frank Williams, tus tsim ntawm Williams Racing, tuag hnub no, hnub nyoog 79, tom qab tau mus pw hauv tsev kho mob hnub Friday dhau los nrog mob ntsws.
Hauv tsab ntawv tshaj tawm sawv cev ntawm tsev neeg luam tawm los ntawm Williams Racing, nws hais tias: “Hnub no peb them nqi zog rau peb tus thawj coj uas hlub thiab txhawb siab. Frank yuav mob siab rau. Peb thov kom txhua tus phooj ywg thiab cov npoj yaig hwm Williams tsev neeg qhov kev xav tau ntawm tus kheej lub sijhawm no. "
Williams Racing, dhau los ntawm nws tus thawj coj thiab Pab Pawg Thawj Coj, Jost Capito, kuj tau hais tias "Williams Racing pab pawg tau tu siab tiag tiag los ntawm peb tus tsim, Sir Frank Williams tuag. Sir Frank yog cov lus dab neeg thiab lub cim ntawm peb cov kev ua si. Nws txoj kev tuag yog qhov kawg ntawm lub sijhawm rau peb pab neeg thiab rau Formula 1. "
Capito kuj ua rau peb nco txog qhov uas Sir Frank Williams tau ua tiav: “Nws yog ib tug neeg pioneer tiag tiag. Txawm hais tias muaj kev nyuaj siab heev hauv nws lub neej, nws tau coj peb pab pawg los ntawm 16 Ntiaj Teb Kev Sib Tw, ua rau peb yog ib pab pawg ua tau zoo tshaj plaws hauv keeb kwm ntawm kev ua si nawv.
Lawv cov txiaj ntsig, uas suav nrog kev ncaj ncees, kev sib koom tes thiab kev ywj pheej thiab kev txiav txim siab, tseem yog lub ntsiab lus ntawm peb pab neeg thiab yog lawv cov qub txeeg qub teg, ib yam li Williams tsev neeg lub npe uas peb txaus siab ua haujlwm nrog. Peb txoj kev xav tau nrog tsev neeg Williams lub sijhawm nyuaj no. "
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Sir Frank Williams
Yug hauv 1942 hauv South Shields, Sir Frank tau tsim nws thawj pab pawg hauv 1966, Frank Williams Racing Tsheb, sib tw hauv Formula 2 thiab Formula 3. Nws qhov kev tshwm sim hauv Formula 1 yuav tshwm sim hauv 1969, muaj ua tus neeg tsav tsheb nws tus phooj ywg Piers Courage.
Williams Grand Prix Engineering (raws li nws lub npe tag nrho) tsuas yog yug los hauv 1977, tom qab kev koom tes ua tsis tiav nrog De Tomaso thiab tau txais feem ntau ntawm Frank Williams Racing Tsheb los ntawm Canadian tycoon Walter Wolf. Tom qab raug tshem tawm ntawm txoj hauj lwm ntawm pab pawg thawj coj, Sir Frank Williams, ua ke nrog ib tug tub hluas engineer Patrick Head, nrhiav Williams Racing.
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Nws yog nyob rau hauv 1978, nrog rau lub tswv yim ntawm thawj chassis tsim los ntawm lub taub hau, FW06, uas Sir Frank yuav ua tiav thawj yeej rau Williams thiab txij thaum ntawd los ntawm pab pawg neeg txoj kev vam meej tsis tau nres loj hlob.
Thawj lub npe tsav tsheb yuav tuaj txog xyoo 1980, nrog rau tus tsav Alan Jones, uas yuav ntxiv rau 6 tus ntxiv, ib txwm nrog tus tsav sib txawv: Keke Rosberg (1982), Nelson Piquet (1987), Nigel Mansell (1992), Alain Prost (1993). ), Damon Hill (1996) thiab Jacques Villeneuve (1997).
Williams Racing qhov tseem ceeb nyob rau hauv kev ua si nawv tsis tau loj hlob nyob rau lub sij hawm no, txawm tias thaum Sir Frank raug kev huam yuaj uas ua rau nws quadriplegic nyob rau hauv 1986.
Sir Frank Williams yuav tawm hauv pab pawg thawj coj hauv 2012, tom qab 43 xyoo ntawm nws pab neeg. Nws tus ntxhais, Claire Williams, yuav coj nws qhov chaw nyob saum Williams Racing, tab sis tom qab tau txais pab pawg los ntawm Dorillon Capital thaum Lub Yim Hli 2020, nws thiab nws txiv (uas tseem koom nrog hauv tuam txhab) tau tawm ntawm lawv txoj haujlwm ntawm lub tuam txhab nrog koj lub npe.