Williams to mark 800 races with Silverstone livery
Williams has become the third team to announce a special livery at the British Grand Prix, with the team starting its 800th race celebrations at its home event.
Silverstone was originally due to be Williams’ 800th race based on its interpretation of the numbers, but the cancellation of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix has pushed that milestone back to the following race in Hungary. Williams will mark the occasion at both events but has a special livery for Silverstone given its proximity to its Grove headquarters, that features the British flag on the rear of the car.
There is also the original Frank Williams Racing Cars logo on the inside of the flag, and ‘Est. 1977’ to mark the year of its first race. The special design will only be used at Silverstone, with other activations planned for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
As well as Williams, McLaren has already unveiled a chrome livery in collaboration with Google, and Aston Martin has a new partnership with Valvoline that will see red and blue additions to the edge of the engine cover as well as Valvoline logos on the front wing and barge boards.
Chris Medland
While studying Sports Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Chris managed to talk his way into working at the British Grand Prix in 2008 and was retained for three years before joining ESPN F1 as Assistant Editor. After three further years at ESPN, a spell as F1 Editor at Crash Media Group was followed by the major task of launching F1i.com’s English-language website and running it as Editor. Present at every race since the start of 2014, he has continued building his freelance portfolio, working with international titles. As well as writing for RACER, his broadcast work includes television appearances on F1 TV and as a presenter and reporter on North America's live radio coverage on SiriusXM.
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