Alan Jones

Alan Jones gave Williams its first world championship, in 1980, and he was the first of the seven drivers who would win it with that team. An Australian born in 1946, he made his debut in 1975 and drove for Hesketh, Hill, Surtees and Shadow, with which he won his first race in Austria in 1977 from fourteenth on the grid.

Frank Williams signed him in 1978 and the following year, with the FW07, he won four races in the second half of the season: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Canada. In 1980 he was champion with five victories, in a fight decided in Montreal, the second to last race, when Nelson Piquet started from pole and blew his engine. Jones won there and at the final round in Watkins Glen as well, finishing on 67 points to 54. Williams also took the constructors' championship with almost double the runner-up.

In 1981 he finished third and signed off by winning the last race of the year, in Las Vegas. He came back for one race in 1983 with Arrows and again with Lola, four races at the end of 1985 and the whole of 1986, without winning. He retired with 12 victories from 116 Grands Prix.