Williams First Champion

[lkjohnson1950]

A closer look at the Alan Jones FW 07:

http://anygivenreason.com/2012/03/15/alan-jones-1980-world-championship-winning-williams-fw07b/

[Ian]

Great post Lonny, loved the vid. 

[cosworth151]

I've always loved the sound of the Cosworth DFV!

[John S]

What a beautiful noise   Thanks Lonny that's great. 

They produced so much downforce that the steering became almost undriveably hard. Jones was one of the only drivers with enough upper body strength to last an entire race – a lot of the smaller European drivers simply couldn’t race them for any period of time

The drivers had it tough in F1 back then, makes Jarno's moans about the power steering not being to his liking at Lotus/Caterham look a tad whimpish.

 

 

[lkjohnson1950]

I don't think Jarno was complaining about the effort of the P/S, I think he was uncomfortable with the way the steering responded inconsistently to his input.