The late, great Ayrton Senna would have been 63 today. During 1983, as a feisty junior racer, the bright spark Brazilian talked his way into a test in this Williams. That first historic run in an F1 car revealed all the traces of genius that would make him a Grand Prix superstar, as Simon Arron recalls in today's Great Read
Purity of line is the first thing that strikes you. Every time the Formula 1 rules shift, it takes only a matter of laps to accept a new look as convention. In the modern era, though, normality translates as a cocktail of turning vanes, winglets and other aerodynamic clutter. In contrast the Williams FW08C looks a paragon of neat elegance.
This is the chassis Williams adapted from the ground-effect FW08 that carried Keke Rosberg to the 1982 world championship. Rosberg and Jacques Laffite used Cosworth-powered FW08Cs throughout the '83 season, while test driver Jonathan Palmer made a one-off appearance in the Grand Prix of Europe at Brands Hatch, the final event before Williams joined the turbocharged exodus and introduced the FW09-Honda...
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