UNITED KINGDOM: TECHNICIANS AT BMW-WILLIAMS FORMULA ONE TEAM CRATE UP THEIR CARS AND EQUIPMENT READY FOR FIRST GRAND PRIX IN AUSTRALIA

Record ID: 338338

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: TECHNICIANS AT BMW-WILLIAMS FORMULA ONE TEAM CRATE UP THEIR CARS AND EQUIPMENT READY FOR FIRST GRAND PRIX IN AUSTRALIA
  • Date: 21st February 2001
  • Summary: GROVE, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK (FEBRUARY 21, 2001)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL CLIENTS) 1. VIEW OF TEAM TRANSPORTERS AT FACTORY 2. EQUIPMENT BEING LOADED DURING DAY 3. CARS AND SPARE PARTS BEING READIED FOR TRANSPORT. CARS EQUIPPED WITH SPECIAL TRANSIT TYRES, COVERS BEING PUT ON, CARS ARE LIFTED INTO TRANSPORTERS 4. TRANSPORTER DOORS CLOSED Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th March 2001 12:00
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  • Location: GROVE, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA8GOGGHJIMPYYVNZWV2YM7Q5E4
  • Story Text: Technicians at the BMW-Williams Formula One team
    headquarters have been crating up their cars and equipment
    ready for air-freighting to Australia for the first Grand Prix
    of the 2001 season.



    The cars, to be driven this season by Ralf Schumacher
    and Juan Pablo Montoya, were prepared at the BMW-Williams
    factory in Oxfordshire on Wednesday (February 21) before being
    loaded into their transporters.

    The trucks, and those of the other Grand Prix teams, will
    be air-freighted en masse to Melbourne for the Australian
    Grand Prix to be run on March 4.

    In 2000 the Williams team was 'the best of the rest,'
    following Ferrari and McLaren to a third place in the overall
    constructors' championship.

    This year the team has a new BMW engine, and a new driver
    in the young Colombian Montoya. It is also the foremost team
    in the handful that will run Michelin tyres instead of the
    Bridgestones that have been used by all teams in recent years.

    The team's founder and boss, Sir Frank Williams, has
    secured the services of BMW, Montoya and Michelin as part of a
    long-term plan to topple the two dominant teams - Ferrari and
    McLaren - and return Williams to the winning form it enjoyed
    in 1996 and 1997 when Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve were
    world champions, and Williams won both constructors' titles.



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