AT&T Williams F1

534: Grand Prix contested
113: Victories
297: Podium finishes
125: Pole positions
130: Fastest laps
2,600: Total points scored


253,412: Kilometres raced
53,545: Laps raced
219: Races led
34,797: Kilometres led
7,497: Laps led
68: Races won from pole position
61: Number of locked out front rows, a record
45: Number of victories led from start to finish
33: One – Two victories
24: The number of consecutive poles (1992 – 1993), a record
15: Number of pole positions secured in one season (out of a possible 16), and achieved two years in succession (1992 and 1993), a record only shared with McLaren
12: The highest number of wins claimed in one season (1996)
9: Constructors’ Championships
7: Drivers’ Championships
7: The highest number of successive wins (1993)
5: Engine partnerships
3.2: Average Championship position
2: Queen’s Award for Export
2: Recognitions for Frank Williams in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. Frank is the only team boss in the paddock to have received a knighthood in the Queen’s honours list, which he added to his CBE award collected in 1986
1 and 100: The first and 100th victories were taken at the team’s home Grand Prix at Silverstone
1: Frank Williams is the longest serving Team Principal in the sport.

* Williams F1 by Numbers (from 1978 through to the end of the 2009 season).


Williams F1 exists solely to go racing. But the effort that goes into the achievement can often be overlooked. Here, we unveil the work that goes on behind the scenes in just a few of our facts and figures.

The Team

• This season the team will practice an average of 1,000 pitstops over the year


• The pitstop crew take approximately 4 seconds to change tyres with 26 people in the pit box, less time than it takes to pour a beer!


• 24 tonnes of equipment are sent to each Grand Prix


• This year, the team will produce 4 FW32 chassis


• AT&T will assist the team send 25 gigabytes of data from the race track to the factory and back again, equivalent to 35 CD-ROMs or the total amount of bandwidth used per household over a whole month


• The team takes 1000's of spare parts to each race


• Over a race weekend, 70 radios will be used in team communications


• Williams' 4 race trucks will travel a total distance of 12,000kms each transporting the team's equipment across Europe


• 160 visa applications are made over the course of a season for Williams personnel


• The team's motorhome takes 6 men 36 man hours to construct


• The smallest garage the team will have to work out of this season will be 15 metres by 10 metres, the largest 22 metres by 24 metres


• One of the team's transporters is converted into office space over a GP weekend to house the team's 8 engineers who travel to every race

The Car

• Over 500 people at Williams F1 have dedicated their lives to the production of the Williams FW32


• 50,000 man hours have gone into the production of the FW32


• Design work for the Williams FW32 commenced in February 2009


• The FW32 had its first wind tunnel run in Christmas 2008


• It takes four days to build the car from a bare chassis to a fully operational race car


• The team's wind tunnel can push 9 tonnes of static air to speeds around 280kph within 30 seconds, although regulations limit air speed to 180kph


• After each race, the car will be stripped down and 150 diagnostic checks will be carried out before the next event


• The FW32 will benefit from the team's seven speed, seamless shift gearbox. The drivers will typically change gear up to 2,800 times per Grand Prix. At twistier circuits, such as Monaco, this number can increase to 4,000 times


• The car’s Standard Electronic Control Unit (SECU) logs over 200 channels of data from up to 150 sensors. Some of these sensors are sampled up to 1,000 times per second


• Over 200 channels of data are transmitted between the car and the garage during a Grand Prix
• The car’s hydraulic system operates at a pressure of 3,000 psi, which is around 100 times greater than that of a road car and the kind of pressure experienced while diving to depths of 6,500 feet


• The gearbox will reach temperatures of 150°C during a race


• The FW32's brake discs can exceed temperatures of 1,000°C


• The FW32 will generate peak lateral accelerations of 5G during cornering


• Tyres can reach temperatures of 160°C


• A Formula One engine weighs just 95kg


• 0 – 60mph in 2.3 seconds


• 100mph in 3.8 seconds


• 0mph to 100mph and back to 0mph again in 5.5 seconds


• Top speed back to 0mph in 3 seconds


• The FW32 will reach its top speed at Monza where the drivers will record 220mph around the track


• The energy required to slow a car from 315kph to 185kph is the same amount needed to make an elephant jump 10 metres in the air!

The Driver

• Rubens and Nico will get through 6 sets of overalls and 6 pairs of race boots each over one season


• Both race drivers will have a minimum of 6 helmets at their disposal this season 

• The drivers will sign approximately 250 autographs at every Grand Prix

• The drivers will carry out an average of 20 interviews per race

• A Formula One driver burns approximately 1,200 calories per Grand Prix and loses on average two kilograms in weight

• During a race, the average temperature in the cockpit will reach 50 °C
  
  
• Drivers' heart rates reach peaks of 190 beats per minute during a Grand Prix.