Sir Frank Williams RIP

[Superhoop]

RIP Sir Frank..

A true legend of the sport..

[anonymous-user]

It's remarkable Frank lived such a long and full life after his spinal injury.

I've worked on a lot of the early Williams cars, from his Frank Williams Racing and then Williams GP Engineering days, he was very much a live by the seat of his pants type guy just surviving to the next race (and pissing off a lot of people in the process) until he teamed up with Patrick who turned the engineering around, together they dominated the sport for a while. It all really went tits up at the end of the BMW years, they never properly recovered from that.

RIP Frank, a proper hard working, passionate and risk taking old school racer long gone from the sport now.

[entropy]

A sad day for the sport.

For many of us our love of F1 came from - whether you supported the team or not - Williams Grand Prix Engineering.

Many leaders are respected but few are also loved.

May you rest in peace Sir Frank and thanks for the memories.

[Sandpit Steve]

Sad news indeed. One of the legends, and the last of the old-school privateers until only a couple of years ago. God speed and fly high Sir Frank.

[seanyfez]

Another legend gone.

RIP Sir Frank.

[Nononsensecapeesh]

Rest in peace Sir Frank Williams.

[Rumblestripe]

RIP Sir Frank, thank you for the excitement and the memories.

[nuttywobbler]

The word ‘legend’ is used too frequently these days, but it’s very apt when describing Sir Frank.

Rest in peace - you’ll be missed by many.

[Piginapoke]

Rest up Frank, you did brilliantly well. Very sad tonight.

[Chubbyross]

For me, his era was the very pinnacle of F1 - the perfect combination of modern engineering, danger, thrills, noise, and full of real characters with plums the size of water melons.

[HocusPocus]

Embodiment of tenacity, passion and ruthlessness. Bravo!

RIP Sir Frank.

[Quattromaster]

As somebody with a spinal injury, nowhere nr the severity of Sir Franks I should add, I always looked up to him after my accident, he was a huge inspiration for what I could achieve.

Massive loss to the world of motorsport.

RIP Sir.

[Maldini35]

Very sad.
Frank showed how a British privateer could take on the best in the world.
An incredible man and true inspiration.

[Fundoreen]

RIP Frank Williams.
Its cruel that due to a combination of events he never got to see his cars running the new regs with him
as team owner.

[TheDeuce]

Fundoreen said:

RIP Frank Williams.
Its cruel that due to a combination of events he never got to see his cars running the new regs with him
as team owner.

He's seen no end of new regs. His team's innovations caused a fair few of them!

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in a sport like F1 for so many decades without starting to resent change, the sport never stands still and at a certain age, even someone like Frank probably wished it had remained as it was in his heyday.

I reckon he liked the era when the regs were loose enough to allow for all kinds of radical innovation and variety. I miss those days too tbf! These days we can and did wait an entire decade for something completely new to appear: DAS.

[jameswills]

Legend, RIP Frank

[sideways man]

RIP Sir Frank.
A quiet man , who let the team do the talking.

[Stan the Bat]

RIP Frank.

You were a proper racer.

[Bob_Defly]

RIP.

[M5-911]

A great gentleman.

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