Two world championship winning Williams F1 cars and turbine Lotus Indy racer ...

After a difficult couple of seasons, Williams has bounced back to its form of old this year with consistent strong result. This has prompted us to take a look at two earlier cars produced by the British team that actually clinched the World Championship. The most recent is the FW18 Renault as used by Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve during the 1996 season. Designed by Adrian Newey, the car won an impressive 12 races out of 16 starts and the drivers placed first and second in the championship with Hill eventually grabbing the title. Over the years we have captured three of the six examples produced in our 42-shot gallery, including the car in which Hill won the title, scoring four victories. He was reunited with the car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2014 and 2009. We have also added a pair of videos showing Hill and more recently Valteri Bottas behind the wheel of FW18-04.
Just over a decade earlier, in 1982, Williams did not dominate the championship but instead Keijo Rosberg won the title with the FW08 Cosworth by very consistent finishes. He famously scored only one victory in what was a difficult season for the sport. We have added four different chassis to our 57-shot gallery, which includes the very car Rosberg used to win the Swiss Grand Prix.
Later that same year, Williams also created a six-wheel version of the World Championship winning machine known as the FW08B. It featured four rear wheels, which allowed for ever longer ground-effect tunnels. It was blisteringly quick in testing but never raced as for 1983, six-wheel F1 cars were banned.
An innovative machine that did make it to the track was the STP-liveried Lotus 56, which was powered by a Pratt & Whitney turbine engine. Also equipped with four-wheel drive, it was the fastest car in qualifying for the 1968 Indy 500. Sadly a crash and two turbine failures put all three examples out of the race. Today we have added pictures of the recently restored example, originally raced by Graham Hill, to our 51-shot gallery.

Enjoy the links:

[url="http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/1056/Williams-FW18-Renault.html"]1996 Williams FW18 Renault - Images, Specifications and Information[/url]

[url="http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3240/Williams-FW08-Cosworth.html"]1982 Williams FW08 Cosworth - Images, Specifications and Information[/url]

[url="http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/2036/Lotus-56-Pratt-and-Whitney.html"]1968 Lotus 56 Pratt & Whitney - Images, Specifications and Information[/url]

[url="http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/689/Williams-FW08B-Cosworth.html"]1982 Williams FW08B Cosworth - Images, Specifications and Information[/url]