2021 saw the team enter its first full year under the ownership of Dorilton Capital. Due to the continuing global pandemic, all teams carried over their chassis from last year to this with only minor changes – hence the B designation for the FW43B. This meant that Williams couldn’t do much to improve the performance of the car and so it was a compromise. The team elected to make changes that would mean irregular trips to the points rather than consistency and always out of the points.

This was a strategy that worked well as the team lifted itself off the bottom of the constructors championship to finish 8th. This was largely due to George Russell‘s heroic efforts to drag the car out of qualifying 1 and four times even making it to Q3. A particular highlight was the second place at Spa in the shortened and rain affected Belgium Grand Prix.

Away from the track Dorilton continued to build up the team personnel. Most significant was in March the team appointed François-Xavier Demaison, better known as FX Demaison, as Techincal Director. Demaison most recently had been with VW and comes with extensive knowledge of ground-effect cars which will be more significant in 2022.

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