Williams Page #5

some orange juice?

Looking for some orange juice,

obviously.

And they're away...

I saw Frank Williams

make a very good start from the back,

he's now in third place

from about the third row of the grid,

that's very good indeed.

Back then his whole thing

was to be

the greatest racing driver in the world.

..who's the yellow car

sneaking through there?

Frank Williams.

It's Frank, look at him sneaking,

what a battle with these two saloons.

My word...

He was racing saloon cars,

but for some reason,

he never had an in built limit,

he would just go faster

and faster and faster

and fly off the circuit.

- And who's off there?

- Frank Williams.

Frank Williams trying too hard,

Frank always very fast

but very hairy and he's living up to it.

When I started doing

uh... Formula 3

sometimes I would encounter people

who would say to me

do you know that chap Frank Williams?

Yeah, I know Frank Williams,

oh, he's so fast and he,

and he crashed here

and he overtook here

and he did all kinds of things.

So Frank had this amazing reputation

as someone who was lightning fast,

not always staying on the road.

There were a

lot of races, he would've won,

but he ended up spinning the car

and having accidents,

he just didn't have a limit

and that extended

to his road driving as well.

- Well what was that like?

- Diabolical.

Where did you learn to drive?

In my mother's Morris 1000,

she was very reluctant to lend it to me,

and she was right because in the end

I did roll it on its roof.

But you rolled a few cars in your time.

Not that many, no.

Well it's just

that every time we talk about a car

it seems to be one that you've rolled.

Well I haven't talked about

that many cars though have I?

But didn't you,

what was your first racing car'?

- A35.

- What happened to that?

That got rolled.

He was nothing but competitive,

against himself in a road car,

it was almost at the point,

where he would start a stopwatch to see

if he could beat

his previous time from A to B.

And I think it dawned on him that

pretty soon he was gonna hurt himself,

you can't have that many accidents

on the road and in the, on race tracks,

you know you end up hurting yourself,

especially back then

when the cars were lethal.

What got me into Formula 1

was only the fact

that after two or three years of racing

rather dangerously around the continent

it became apparent

that I might have lots of uh... courage

but nothing like enough skill

to go with it.

At the same time I became very friendly

with a young man called Piers Courage

who was a brilliant driver.

And the opportunity came for Frank

to build a Formula 1 car

and Piers agreed to drive it.

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