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In its 45-year history, the team has amassed 114 grands prix wins, 313 podiums and 128 pole positions. So began Williams' epic rise with the team winning its first championship double in 1980 and following that up with a Drivers' crown in 1981 and the Constructors' a year later. The following year the first FW was born and the team bagged their first points, P4 at the South African GP, and first podium with Alan Jones second in the United States. Williams arrived on the Formula 1 grid in 1977, racing a March chassis. 20 were their worst campaigns yet, although they showed signs of life in 2021 - with George Russell scoring an unlikely podium in the washed-out Belgian Grand Prix, after a stunning qualifying lap that put him on the front row.
One of F1's most successful ever teams has been in a steady decline. Nine times a Constructors' Champion, seven times a Drivers', it seems unthinkable that Williams have now gone 25 years without winning a title.
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