Claire Williams: “I had no aspirations to run an F1 team - it was never in my destiny”
F1 Beyond The Grid
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
To say Claire Williams has racing in her blood would be an understatement. But despite being born into and raised around one of F1’s most successful teams, it’s fair to say she never expected to one day find herself taking the reins of her family squad.
On this week’s episode of Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose, the daughter of legendary team boss Sir Frank Williams spills the beans on how she came to take the position of Deputy Team Principal (including the crucial role played by Toto Wolff!), provides fascinating insight into how she twins running a team with motherhood, recounts epic tales of growing up in a racing family, and lifts the lid on the driver who once lost a potential drive with the team for being too tidy!
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| 0:30.4 | Hello, I am Chloe Williams and you are listening to Beyond the Grid |
| 0:39.7 | Hi everyone, it's TC here with another episode of Beyond the Grid presented by Bose quiet comfort 35 to wireless headphones |
| 0:48.6 | This week's guest is someone I've known since I started working in F1 20 years ago |
| 0:54.3 | She comes from good stock. I go so far as to say her family is formula one royalty |
| 0:59.4 | And it's been fun to watch her rise through the ranks at Williams from press officer to her current role as deputy team principal |
| 1:07.2 | She's a hard worker. She's passionate. She's modest and she's also in love. I'm talking of course about Claire Williams |
| 1:15.4 | She's been DTP as she calls it for more than five years and she's experienced every emotion under the sun during that time |
| 1:23.4 | Off track her mother died shortly after she took over the reins of the team |
| 1:27.2 | She also got married and she's had a baby little Nate |
| 1:30.6 | On track there were the highs of |
| 1:32.5 | 2014 when the team scored nine podiums and took a pole position on route to third in the constructors championship |
| 1:38.9 | Through to the difficulties of 2018 when Williams have endured the least competitive season in their history |
| 1:46.5 | I caught up with Claire at the team's Grove headquarters where I was greeted at the door by none other |
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