The Williams Components 1 staff has partnered with Sparco forward of the 2026 season on a multi-year deal.
Sparco joins the Grove outfit as its official racewear and technical attire provider, offering race fits for drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon, in addition to the staff’s F1 Academy driver, and members of the Williams F1 Crew Driver Academy, Williams Heritage, sim racing drivers and the mechanics.
Sparco had beforehand partnered with Williams again within the Nineteen Nineties with Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve all claiming their drivers’ championship titles in Sparco race fits.
“Atlassian Williams F1 Crew warmly welcomes Sparco as our Racewear and Technical Attire Provider as we enter a brand new rules period for Components 1,” Luke Timmins, director of merchandise and licensing shared. “Sparco is part of Williams’ storied historical past and we anticipate finding the subsequent step in efficiency alongside them.”
Aldino Bellazzini, Sparco chairman and CEO, added: “Atlassian Williams F1 Crew and Sparco share a Championship-winning heritage in Components 1, and renewing this partnership means coming again to a chapter that helped outline each manufacturers.
“It’s a return constructed for what comes subsequent: we carry new experience, superior supplies and an much more disciplined, measurable strategy to efficiency.
“Because the staff enters F1’s new rules period, we’re proud to carry our expertise to the drivers and the staff, translated into technical tools developed to the very best requirements of world motorsport.”
Personal testing for the 2026 F1 season is at the moment beneath approach in Barcelona, though Williams isn’t current on account of delays with the FW48. As a substitute, the staff is finishing up digital testing earlier than heading to Bahrain for the subsequent spherical of testing on 11-13 February.
The season will start with the Australian Grand Prix on 6-8 March at Albert Park.
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