{"id":3419,"date":"2010-03-18T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:21:16","slug":"f1-team-williams-positions-for-vw-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-team-williams-positions-for-vw-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 team Williams positions for VW alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to the latest reports from Germany, Williams could be a candidate to team up with the country&#8217;s carmaker giant Volkswagen.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sport Bild weekly suggested that Sir Frank Williams, who has already sold a 20 per cent share in his once great Grove based team to Austrian Toto Wolff, could sell another stake to Wolfsburg based VW.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are stronger with a manufacturer than as a private team.\u00a0 No question,&#8221; 67-year-old Williams is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And of course we have an affinity with Germany.\u00a0 I remember well, quite early on, we went to the races with VW buses &#8212; we sometimes even slept in them!&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;German cars are great,&#8221; Williams continued.\u00a0 &#8220;With Mercedes, Brawn won the title last year, and with McLaren in the previous year.\u00a0 And now they (Mercedes) are up there with their own team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams, now powered by engines supplied by the British independent company Cosworth, last won a race in 2004 with works BMW power.<\/p>\n<p>The team has also won titles in the past amid works relationships with the carmakers Honda and Renault.<\/p>\n<p>Said VW&#8217;s motor racing representative Hans-Joachim Stuck: &#8220;At the moment F1 is not a topic for us.\u00a0 If, however, the conditions change, we would have to think about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen is openly keen on the FIA&#8217;s proposal to instigate &#8216;world engine&#8217; regulations from 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Former F1 driver Stuck agreed that rules of that type would result in &#8220;huge savings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest reports from Germany, Williams could be a candidate to team up with the country&#8217;s carmaker giant Volkswagen. \u00a0 The Sport Bild weekly suggested that Sir Frank Williams, who has already sold a 20 per cent share in his once great Grove based team to Austrian Toto Wolff, could sell another stake &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[353,5262,1030,541,5359,696,1028,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}