Sir Frank Williams and his family have relinquished their roles in the Formula 1 team that bears their name, thus ending over half a century of the family's involvement in motorsport at the highest level. The team's slide from superpower to minnows has been painful to watch for anyone who witnessed Williams in their full-pomp and glory, the team Sir Frank Williams built from the ashes of several abortive ventures before then. But when his team hit the sweetspot in the late seventies it became a winning machine that attracted some of the sport's greatest drivers as the team wrote itself into the record books. Frank's story could fill several volumes, but the Williams website sums up their...
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