Williams has signed 1997 Formulation 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve as an envoy for the 2025 season.
Villeneuve, who stays the latest driver to win a title for Williams, will be part of Jenson Button and Jamie Chadwick in serving to “strengthen the connection between the staff’s celebrated historical past and its formidable future”.
The British staff didn’t present any particulars about Villeneuve’s position as an envoy, however it’s prone to embody a number of public appearances at occasions such because the Goodwood Pageant of Velocity.
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Villeneuve made his much-anticipated F1 debut with Williams in 1996 because the reigning IndyCar champion and received the European Grand Prix on the Nurburgring in simply his fourth weekend within the collection.
He led Williams to a dominant title double in his sophomore marketing campaign in 1997, profitable seven of the 17 races within the Renault-powered FW19.
He remained at Williams the next 12 months, earlier than departing the squad in 1999 in favour of a transfer to British American Racing (BAR). Nonetheless, he would by no means obtain the identical success after leaving Williams, and retired from the collection after 2006 following a two-year stint at Sauber/BMW in 2005-06.
“Williams has been an important a part of my life, full of fond recollections,” stated the Canadian, now 53. “I’m ecstatic to be a part of the household once more, and to assist rejoice the staff’s heritage whereas supporting its future.”
Jenson Button, Williams FW14B
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Williams additionally introduced that it had retained each 2009 F1 champion Button and three-time W Collection title winner Chadwick as driver ambassadors.
Like Villeneuve, Button made his F1 debut with Williams, in 2000, and this 12 months marks the twenty fifth anniversary of that landmark second. He rejoined Williams in 2021 as a senior advisor, 5 years after retiring from F1 as a driver.
Chadwick, in the meantime, first joined Williams as a growth driver in 2019 and acquired her first alternative to check an F1 automotive two years in the past, when she drove Keke Rosberg’s FW08C at Goodwood.
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