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The Race F1 Podcast

The Decline of Williams

The Race F1 Podcast

The Race Media Ltd

Sports

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Williams endured the two worst seasons since the team first became a constructor in 2018-19 and hasn’t won a title in over 20 years. So what went wrong for this powerhouse team and can it recapture past glories? Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell, Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw discuss.


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0:00.0

The race is on, and today we're talking about the Williams Formula One team.

0:12.2

Williams has 114 wins, seven drivers and nine Constructors World Championships,

0:16.7

but has just endured its two worst seasons as a constructor.

0:20.4

Hasn't won a race for almost eight years and last won a title way back in 1997.

0:25.7

So how did Williams hit this new low?

0:28.2

How did it slide from being one of the best teams of the 80s and 90s

0:31.0

into becoming an also-ran for a large part of the 21st century?

0:34.8

I'm Ed Sturor and joining me to chart Williams' decline

0:37.2

and its hopes to

0:38.1

rise again as Scott Mitchell, Mark Hughes and Glenn Freeman. Well, Mark, hello. You've been out on your

0:44.3

chopper recently? No, I agree. The chopper win sometime in the 70s, I'm afraid. I'd like to get

0:51.0

another one someday, but I can't afford them. They're about a thousand

0:54.5

quid now. Yeah, after our conversation on last week's podcast, I'd have a look. There's quite a good

0:58.3

secondhand trade in those. So you should buy a few restoration projects.

1:04.4

Yeah, yeah. Someday maybe. Yeah. And also joining me is Scott Mitchell in Sweden. No cycling for you.

1:12.4

But have you been wandering around in the snow or something?

1:14.1

Were you saying earlier?

1:15.8

I did have a little bit of a walk in what was left of the snow.

1:18.8

There was a crazy amount last night.

1:21.7

It was like a full-on blizzard just after midnight.

1:25.8

But the sun is rising quite early here now. So by 5am,

1:30.0

it was really bright and sunny outside. And when I finally got outside at 8am, loads of the snow

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