The AT&T Williams team, which was formed and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

This record breaking team first competed in 1978 at the Argentine GP and has gone on to score 113 Grand Prix victories.

The team base is in Grove, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Five hundred and twelve people work there to assure that the racing cars perform well and that all latest developments are tested and integrated in the new cars.

Since their debut, the team has won nine World Constructors Championships. Australian racer Alan Jones won the first of seven World Driver Championships in 1980. Legends like Keke Rosberg (1982), Nelson Piquet (1987), Nigel Mansell (1992), Alain Prost (1993), Damon Hill (1996) and Jacques Villeneuve (1997) successfully represented this great legacy.

Frank Williams was born on April 16, 1942 in Jarrow, County Durham, England, to an RAF officer and a special education teacher.

He made his racing debut in 1961 driving an Austin A40 saloon, thereafter progressing to F3 racing both as a mechanic and driver. In 1967 he decided that his future was not in driving and built his first Motorsport team: Frank Williams Racing Cars.

Due to the lack of money and success, he merged with the oil magnate Walter Wolf in 1976.

Desiring independence again, Williams left the team in 1977 together with the engineer Patrick Head to build up a new team: Williams Grand Prix Engineering, now known as AT&T Williams. In March 1986 the team was on a high but Frank Williams was to face the most serious challenge of his life. While returning to the airport at Nice, he was involved in a car accident which was to leave him paralysed and confined to a wheelchair.

In 1999 he was knighted by the Queen. Frank Williams is also one of the few non-Frenchmen to have been made a Chevalier of France's Legion d'Honneur.

During the 2008 season the AT&T Williams drivers are Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima, with Nico Hülkenberg as a test driver.

Now in his third season as a driver for AT&T Williams, Nico Rosberg has been able to swing the focus of attention from "son of former world champion" to "a very exciting prospect in Formula One". From that extraordinary debut in Bahrain back in 2006, to the innate speed shown in the 2007 season, he has demonstrated the ability to become a real star of the future.

Nico Rosberg at a glance
Date and place of birth: 27th June 1985, Wiesbaden, Germany 
Nationality: German
Place of residence: Monaco
Marital status: Single
Height: 1.78 m
Weight: 69 kg
Hobbies: Soccer, snowboarding, jet-skiing
Website: www.nicorosberg.com

Formula One statistics to date
Formula One debut: 2006 Bahrain GP
GP Starts: 35
Victories: - 
Pole Positions: - 
Podiums: - 
Points Finishes: 7 
Fastest Laps: 1 
Total Points: 24 (2006: 4, 2007: 20) 

AT&T Williams' former test driver Kazuki Nakajima is the son of Satoru Nakajima - the first Japanese driver to earn a full-time drive in Formula One in the late 1980s. Kazuki moved up to being the team's new driver in 2007 and is eager to gather his first Formula One points during this season.

Kazuki Nakajima at a glance
Date and place of birth: 11th January 1985, Aichi, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Place of residence: Japan
Marital status: Single
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 62 kg
Hobbies: Football, Music
Website: www.kazuki-nakajima.com

Formula One statistics to date  
Formula One debut: 2007 Brazil GP
GP Starts: 1
Victories: -
Pole Positions: -
Podiums: -
Points Finishes: -
Fastest Laps: -
Total Points: -

As a thirteen year old, Nico won the German Junior Kart Championship. He also entered Formula BMW Germany stage with a bang, winning the championship as the best rookie in 2005. After moving up into the Formula 3 Euro series in 2006, he took the next step in his carrier by signing a contract as a test driver at AT&T Williams in 2008.

Nico Hülkenberg at a glance 
Date and place of birth: 19th August 1987, Emmerich, Germany
Nationality: German
Place of residence: Germany
Marital status: Single
Height: 1.84 m
Weight: 70 kg
Hobbies: Kart-driving, jogging, mountain-biking, Tennis

Formula One statistics to date
Formula One debut: -
GP Starts: -
Victories: -
Pole Positions: -
Podiums: -
Points Finishes: -
Fastest Laps: -
Total points: -