Sir Frank Williams

Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half a century, however, he built that desire into a multiple World Championship-winning entity that employs several hundred people, and to honor those accomplishments, in 1999 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. It all began once he abandoned his own driving career and began entering cars for other, better-funded drivers. By 1969 he tackled F1 with an ex-works Brabham for Piers…