Autosport.com is reporting that the Williams Formula One team have have acquired a minority stake in Automotive Hybrid Power Limited, a company developing high-energy composite flywheels for use in energy recovery systems.
The move comes ahead of the expected introduction of the Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) in the sport from next season.
Automotive Hybrid Power is [...]

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A number of teams think they are going to be third in the constructors championship this year. Jarno Trulli says that Toyota can be fighting for third, Mario Theissen believes his team have broken free of the midfield pack and will maintain their position as third best behind McLaren and Ferrari, and Sam Michael at [...]

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It has been an interesting pre-season this year with a number of teams talking up their chances. Williams has contunially been talking about how good their car is this season with Sam Michaels, Patrick Head, and even Frank Williams talking about their chances. Given they have a very good driver in Nico Rosberg, maybe things [...]

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As reported at Autosport.com, Nico Rosberg thinks that it is still going to take Williams another year to return to front-running form in Formula One, despite the team’s impressive pre-season testing build up.
The new FW30 has emerged as one of the leading contenders to be ‘best-of-the-rest’ behind Ferrari and McLaren, thanks in part to BMW [...]

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As reported at Autosport.com, the new Williams FW30 was unveiled at the Valencia circuit on Monday before completing an installation lap as fog covered the Spanish circuit.
German test driver Nico Hulkenberg was the man in charge of completing the first run with the new car from the British squad, who will not hold an official [...]

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As reported at Formula1.com, the McLaren appeal has been rejected. The reason given is not that they were wrong, only that they were not allowed to appeal. Therefore, Williams and BMW get to break the rules with no retribution, and Ferrari get another world championship handed to them by the FIA. Grandprix.com has a good [...]

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As reported in Autosport and PitPass, Alonso and McLaren have agreed to part ways. Alonso’s manager is saying that no money has changed hands, but this is hard to believe. Why would McLaren let Alonso go for nothing, only to go to a competitor. There are rumours that Alonso can only go to a privateer [...]

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As reported on PitPass, a report by Christian Sylt in the Daily Telegraph has revealed that Williams made a massive £28m loss in 2006. This article makes for interesting reporting.

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