Frank Williams

And we had a press conference in the hotel right next to the headquarters of the FIA in Paris.

And everybody turned up, some people like Colin Chapman and Frank Williams, they're all there.

You see that very soon there will be only one championship, either yours or that of FISA.

In the end, it's a boxing match.

Agreement between the Formula One constructors.

Oh, well, here we are.

On behalf of MRD Limited, Bernie, Brabham, Frank Williams, Tyrrell.

Ferrari.

Damon Hill was and is also very personable in front of cameras, but he was driven by more demons than his dad.

He won a world championship knowing that he was about to be let go from the Williams team.

That was sensational once, the world champion being fired.

And his nemesis on the track was Michael Schumacher, who got under Damon's skin.

Such stories in this film.

And I'm having to triage because I know we don't have endless time with you.

What are we to make, because you drove with Ayrton Senna on the Williams team.

What are we to make of the story your wife Georgie tells in this film about being in your truck, you know, the mobile home you used.

somewhat.

I guess, you know, demanding a share of a Ferrari is a little bit different from demanding a share of Alpine or Williams or something like that.

Yes, but I think the other, the control stipulation, I think, I suspect that will be the sticking point.

You mentioned control

So, yeah, it's a bit more complicated than the old days.

It's...

It's a long way from Frank Williams buying a year old car, getting an entry, buying a DFV in a Hewland, putting a quick driver in and going racing, isn't it? But yeah, he got two second places like that in 1969 on a budget of 40 grand.

But yeah, he didn't need to worry about cost caps.

Yeah.

Frank Williams was able to enter F1 because of the affordability and competitiveness of the DFV.

Imagine Formula 1 history without Williams.

Eventually, turbo engines came around and brought the fight to Ford, but they were so finicky that some teams still chose the Ford Cosworth for reliability.

The leader of the team was Arriva, was Marchionne.

Why? Because in Formula 1, It's a dictatorial job, you need someone who controls and has absolute power, like Toto Wolff had at Mercedes, like Horner at Red Bull, like Frank Williams at Williams, which is his stuff, like Ron Dennis at McLaren, which was his team, like Zac Brown now, then he put Stella to manage, but in short, the boss, you need the boss who is the owner of the team, who directs the team and what he decides does not get into discussion.

Vasseur does nothing else.

Vasseur was chosen after Elkhorn left Binotto, he let Binotto go.

After my nine seasons at McLaren, you know, there w- there wasn't many options, quite frankly.

I went to see everyone, you know, Ferrari, Williams.

Um, McLaren obviously had come to the end of, of that particular journey.

I'd spoken to Jaguar, but had decided that that wasn't something I wanted to do with the structure that it had.

Michael got banned from the championship or kicked out the championship because it was determined that he deliberately turned in on Jacques.

Only he will know if that was the case or not.

But nonetheless, Jacques, um, and McLaren had made an agreement with Williams that if they didn't get in the way of the Williams strategy to help Ferrari, Williams would be supportive in getting out of the way for McLaren.

Highly irregular.

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And when we came together in 96, McLaren were not particularly competitive.

And I'd left 95 Williams who were winning Grand Prixs.

So it was probably a bit more of a shock for me than it was for Mika.

And then in 97, I won the first race of the year in Melbourne.

Tell us how things happened back in your day, how much ignoring of those team orders happened, be honest.

And when it comes to the likes of Ferrari, even Mercedes and often McLaren at the moment, what should they be doing from your perspective?

Okay, on team orders, the first time I received team orders was actually at Williams in 94, and it was to let Damon pass in Monza, which I did because I was standing in for eight races.

At McLaren, the first time was 97 in Jerez.