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CHAPTER 1: Planting The Seed: 1:05
Walter Wolf Fires Frank: 3:55
CHAPTER 2: A Taste Of The Good Life: 5:48
Pitstop & Quiz Time: 6:28
Their First Double: 7:34
Keke Legendary 1982 Season: 9:51
Ear Pleasure: 10:51
CHAPTER 3: Return To Glory: 11:09
The Accident: 11:56
CHAPTER 4: Top Of The Food Chain: 16:52
The Lion Drives The Greatest Racing Car Ever Designed: 17:32
Ayrton’s Becomes Title Favorite: 19:22
The Death Of Senna: 20:21
Onboard Schumacher vs. Hill Controversial Title Decider: 22:04
Guess Who’s Back?? 23:50
Newey’s Reign At Williams Ends: 24:22
The Last Non-European Champion: 26:15
CHAPTER 5: Bride To Bridesmaid: 27:30
The 1997 Concorde Agreements aka The Williams Killer: 28:11
CHAPTER 6: Change In The Tides: 31:03
The Sam Michael Era: 35:10
A Rosberg Returns: 36:00
Change, change… & oh look more change! 38:30
CHAPTER 7: The Final Descent: 40:09
New Lowes: 41:24
My 50 Year Assessment: 41:58
The 3 Points For A Path To Success: 44:09
Constructor Or Bust: 45:53
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This is a Formula 1 story I've always wanted to tell. Here is my thanks for the support and subs – it's truly made a massive difference in the kind of content I can give you. To improve your Formula 1 content, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/2T3TGbK . Podcast in description if you want to listen – Spotify & iTunes available. It's a long one – time stamps below to help:
CHAPTER 1: Planting The Seed: 1:05
Walter Wolf Fires Frank: 3:55
CHAPTER 2: A Taste Of The Good Life: 5:48
Pitstop & Quiz Time: 6:28
Their First Double: 7:34
Keke Legendary 1982 Season: 9:51
Ear Pleasure: 10:51
CHAPTER 3: Return To Glory: 11:09
The Accident: 11:56
CHAPTER 4: Top Of The Food Chain: 16:52
The Lion Drives The Greatest Racing Car Ever Designed: 17:32
Ayrton’s Becomes Title Favorite: 19:22
The Death Of Senna: 20:21
Onboard Schumacher vs. Hill Controversial Title Decider: 22:04
Guess Who’s Back?? 23:50
Newey’s Reign At Williams Ends: 24:22
The Last Non-European Champion: 26:15
CHAPTER 5: Bride To Bridesmaid: 27:30
The 1997 Concorde Agreements aka The Williams Killer: 28:11
CHAPTER 6: Change In The Tides: 31:03
The Sam Michael Era: 35:10
A Rosberg Returns: 36:00
Change, change… & oh look more change! 38:30
CHAPTER 7: The Final Descent: 40:09
New Lowes: 41:24
My 50 Year Assessment: 41:58
The 3 Points For A Path To Success: 44:09
Constructor Or Bust: 45:53
What’s the music around 46:30
Let's just say, Williams is like Brazil, they never returned from the death of Senna
Then an end of an era with the passing of the founder of the Williams team, Sir Frank Williams. Condolences to the family and the team…..
Great video but the delivery of your speech is terrible. You need to pause between sentences. It's very hard to listen to you….
I got an ad for Williams on the vid lol
Ferrari fans back in 2020: "Ferrari sucks this year."
Williams: "First time?"
Rest in peace, Mr. Williams.
Got a williams racing ad before this vid what a coincidence
I still see the biggest singke impacting reason on Williams fortunes which has impacted thier current situation was the tradgic accident of Ayrton Seena …this tragedy had deep and log lasting repurcustions on the whole team…of course there are many other factors but this weas the greatest single impact imho
And now it's neither Frank's nor Clair's
2022 may see Williams turn their head back.
Life is pain.
Williams made one mistake. Sam Michael. The team went downhill under his term and never recovered.
There's a reason why ferarri and mclaren eventually come back…. because they find a way to adapt…. and ferarri pulled a Mercedes in 2013 and nailed the 2022 regulations perfectly
Actually looking at the final 94 race, it doesn’t look like controversy. Schumacher may have turned into Hill, but it was his line. Damon Hill was not side by side and was never equal or ahead. Schumacher turning into the corner just looks normal. That’s just a hot take
Now it’s the safety car team which is very sad
4:41 😍
I would love nothing more than to see Williams bounce back just one last time and take the championship in honor of Frank. I think any long time F1 fan would love to see it.
This is one of my favorite channels!!!!
We need you to upload more even though I know that all of your videos takes a long time to be made that good!
Thanks for this amazing content!!!
I would love to see a video like this one for Alfa Romeo!
Frank got old
Why do the narrators of these documents have absolutely no tone to their voice? Like a boring robot!
Fantastic video. I was a big Mansel fan and then a big villeneuve and then a big montoya fan.
I stopped watching completely and only started again midway though 2021.
This shows just how much more there is to running an f1 team.
The Williams we have now is not at all the Williams f1 racing team that started. And that is not a bad thing. Everything has to change and evolve over time. And the past 20 years has not been good for Williams.
But I think they should hang in there. Maybe the 2026 changes will be a positive one for them. Who knows. What we do know is albon is a good replacement for George.
Schumacher was so brilliant he defeated Williams and mclaren in 2003 , they were not able to take advantage of Ferrari's weakness at the beginning of the year. !
Nice Work. 1997 was my nadir as well.
I will never forget that Williams team lied, denied, and delayed with assistance from FIA in the trial over Senna's negligently modified car that broke 6 laps into a race. Williams thought they were above taking responsibility and suffering the consequences of their negligence. They thought they were too important to face the truth, but now we see they aren't needed in F1 and they belong in its history only. I don't believe in karma, but it does give me great satisfaction to see them languish at the back of the grid. Soon they will be gone forever and I will be glad. Good riddance to one of the most disgraceful sports teams of all time. No one is above the truth, I don't care who you think you are.
very very good documentary!!! i love all of it… the structure, the research, the "advertisement" to other videos for context, pictures that where shown…. just beautiful!!
Thanks for making this video. Exceptional research and well narrated!