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Williams FW16. During the 1994 season, Williams exclusively used version FW16B (developed still during the pre-season), in which Ayrton Senna’s fatal crash occurred and Damon Hill came close to winning the season, his third year in Formula One Williams took a step up for the 1992 season, keeping their 1991 driver line-up of Patrese and Mansell. Mansell dominated the first round in South Africa, qualifying in pole position and winning the race by 24 seconds from his team-mate Patrese. Nigel Mansell won the next four rounds for Williams, at Mexico City, Interlagos, Cataluya and Imola, Patrese coming second in all but one (the Spanish Grand Prix, where he retired after spinning off). Senna won the next race in Monaco, ahead of both Williams cars, which finished second and third. In the next race, in Canada, both Williams cars retired: Mansell spun off and Patrese had a gearbox failure. (In the final round, in Adelaide, the two Williams again retired, Mansell after a violent collision with Senna, and Patrese with electrical problems.) Mansell went on to record four more Grand Prix wins, including at the British Grand Prix.
Williams graduated from the University of Rio Grande in Rio Grande, Ohio, in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He has served on the board of trustees for the university for 27 years and is a former board president. Williams currently serves on the board of directors for Ohio Valley Banc Corp. (Nasdaq: OVBC).
Image:2007WilliamsF1Logo.gif Unable to make a deal with another major engine manufacturer, Williams used naturally-aspirated Judd engines for the 1988 season.[7] This left them with a significant performance deficit compared with their turbo-powered rivals. Piquet left Williams to join Lotus, who had secured Honda engines for the 1988 season. Williams brought in Italian Riccardo Patrese to replace him. The team did not win a single race that season and finished seventh in the constructors’ championship, scoring 20 points. The highlights of the season were two second places by Mansell, at the British and Spanish Grand Prix. When Mansell was forced to miss two races through illness, he was replaced by Martin Brundle and then Jean Louis Schlesser.
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