The Williams-Renault partnership produced some of the most successful Formula 1 cars of the 1990s, including five constructors’ world championships. Yet it’s perhaps the least-remembered of the family, the FW35 that was only ninth-fastest on Supertimes in 2013, that resonates with factory Mercedes GT driver Daniel Juncadella as his favourite car.
The DTM veteran singles out the most recent Williams-Renault and the final V8 Williams, that scored just five points in Valtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado’s hands, having sampled it over two days during the Silverstone rookie test.
“It was an absolute rocket,” the Spaniard recalls. “For me, the V8s were the ultimate experience.”
In the early phases of a career that has been closely intertwined with Mercedes for much of the past decade – his 2019 season in the short-lived R-Motorsport Aston Martin DTM programme aside – Juncadella’s appearance at F1’s 2013 Silverstone rookie test with a Renault-powered outfit wasn’t…
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