{"id":891048,"date":"2026-09-10T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891048\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:12:10","slug":"williams-pays-tribute-to-1981-title-winning-car-with-special-spanish-grand-prix-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891048\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams pays tribute to 1981 title-winning car with special Spanish Grand Prix livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/williams\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Williams<\/a> will be sporting a one-off 1981-inspired livery on its FW48 at this weekend&#8217;s Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The special white, green and navy blue colourway pays homage to the FW07C, the car that claimed the constructors&#8217; championship in 1981. Interestingly, that year also marks the last time Formula 1 visited the Spanish capital, when Alan Jones and Carlos Reutemann competed at the nearby Circuito de Jarama.<\/p>\n<p>F1 returns to Madrid for the 2026 season at the newly constructed Madring, a 22-turn layout that is a blend of permanent circuit sections and public roads.<\/p>\n<p>The Grove outfit revealed the new livery during a fan event at Madrid&#8217;s Plaza de Callao on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our mission to get back to the front of the grid is drawn from, inspired by and informed by everything we\u2019ve done before,&#8221; team principal James Vowles explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am incredibly proud to celebrate that through [title sponsor] Atlassian\u2019s special livery, connecting the team we were at Jarama with the team we are becoming today through focused collaboration, improved technological innovation, and real creativity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car looks fantastic, and I cannot wait to see it lapping around Madrid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/carlos-sainz\/15916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos\u00a0Sainz<\/a>, who is preparing for his home grand prix, is an ambassador for the Madring circuit. &#8220;It&#8217;s a big race for me this week &#8211; my first true home race in Madrid, and it&#8217;s been even more special seeing this circuit come together over the past few months,&#8221; the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honour to be bringing F1 back to Madrid where I drove a kart for the first time, and to race in front of the incredible home crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Sainz and his team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/alex-albon\/109625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Albon<\/a> will be wearing new race suits to match the one-off livery.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Grand Prix will take place on Sunday 13 September.<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams will be sporting a one-off 1981-inspired livery on its FW48 at this weekend&#8217;s Spanish Grand Prix in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,153753,153752,82,4962,1196,308824],"class_list":["post-891048","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-madring","tag-spanish-gp","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam","tag-williams","tag-williams-pays-tribute-to-1981-title-winning-car-with-special-spanish-grand-prix-livery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891048","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=891048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}