{"id":757452,"date":"2026-06-24T05:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757452\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:37:13","slug":"ai-and-the-machine-an-f1-underdog-plans-a-high-tech-comeback-newsmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757452\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and The Machine: An F1 \u2018Underdog\u2019 Plans a High-Tech Comeback | Newsmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by Frank Williams in 1977, Williams Racing is the third most successful Formula 1 team in history: the team has taken home nine World Constructor\u2019s Championships and seven Driver\u2019s Championships, outpaced only by Ferrari and McLaren. But Williams fell behind\u2014finally sinking to last place in the late 2010s. <\/p>\n<p>Now the team is rebuilding from the ground up, rising in the rankings, and rebranding as the Atlassian Williams F1 Team. Partnered with AI firms like Anthropic, Williams is betting everything on a high-tech turnaround strategy aimed at becoming race-winning and profitable again by 2028. <\/p>\n<p>But Formula 1 is already the world\u2019s most technical sport. And as it increasingly becomes a \u201cbattle of computers,\u201d can teams like Williams balance history, heritage, and human teamwork with technology\u2019s growing dominance? <\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Newsmakers, Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Jennifer H. Cunningham travels from the Miami Grand Prix to the Atlassian Williams headquarters in the U.K., meeting with driver Alex Albon, team principal James Vowles, and others to learn more about the Atlassian Williams\u2019 comeback\u2014and how technologies like  artificial intelligence are transforming Formula 1 racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founded by Frank Williams in 1977, Williams Racing is the third most successful Formula 1 team in history:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-757452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}