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General => General => Topic started by: Grahamm on 28 November 2021, 06:26:39 pm

Title: Sir Frank Williams, RIP
Post by: Grahamm on 28 November 2021, 06:26:39 pm

Sir Frank Williams: Formula 1 team founder dies aged 79 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/59453378)

I got into F1 in the mid 1970s, so watched it through the Williams glory years and it's been a real shame that their fortunes have declined so much since then.

Recently there have been a couple of documentaries about Frank Williams' life and it's incredible how he managed to carry on running a team despite being mostly paralysed in a car accident.

He was the last of the "Team Name" principals and his death is a sad loss to the sport :(

Title: Re: Sir Frank Williams, RIP
Post by: unfazed on 29 November 2021, 02:48:25 pm

Sad to here of his death, great man his only real downside from the injury was not to be able to bang the table like at meetings like Enzo used to when trying to force his Ferrari way or the highway. Frank was a pure genius.Took some determination to come from his wife being asked to turn of his life support which she refused to do, to get the to the top of F1.

RIP