{"id":16452,"date":"2020-09-04T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16452"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:22:03","slug":"williams-family-to-withdraw-from-formula-1-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16452","title":{"rendered":"Williams family to withdraw from Formula 1 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the major constructors of Formula 1, Williams decided to leave the racing team after the 2020 Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This weekend&#8217;s Italian Grand Prix at Monza will mark the final race for the Williams family in Formula One,&#8221; the UK-based constructor said in Thursday&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 43 years and 739 Grands Prix, the family is set to leave the sport following the recent change in ownership to Dorilton Capital,&#8221; Williams stated.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Williams, the Deputy Team Principal, said it is the right time for the family to leave Formula One.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the future of the team now secured, this feels like the appropriate time for us to step away from the sport. As a family, we have always prioritised Williams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Claire added that a new era for the F1 team will start and wished them success in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Williams family has managed the Formula One team since the 1977 Spanish Grand Prix, but sold it to a US investment group, Dorilton Capital last month.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Sir Frank Williams and British engineer Patrick Head, the British team won 114 Grands Prix and took 128 pole positions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Williams bagged seven Drivers&#8217; World Championships and nine Constructors&#8217; titles.<\/p>\n<p>Williams last won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>George Russell from the UK and Canadian national Nicholas Latifi are currently driving for the Williams team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA One of the major constructors of Formula 1, Williams decided to leave the racing team after the 2020 Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. &#8220;This weekend&#8217;s Italian Grand Prix at Monza will mark the final race for the Williams family in Formula One,&#8221; the UK-based constructor said in Thursday&#8217;s statement. &#8220;After 43 years and 739 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16454,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions\/16454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}