A Williams Formula One car driven throughout the 2003 season has been restored and is set to return to the track after more than two decades in storage.
Drivers Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya both used the vehicle as a test car throughout the season – which ended with Williams finishing second in that year’s Constructors’ Championship.
Now, 23-years-on, the FW25 has been restored by the Grove-based F1 team’s heritage division and the engineers who originally worked on it during that 2003 season.
On Friday, the renovated racing car – powered by a 3.0-litre V10 engine – will return to the track competitively at Germany’s legendary motorsport Mecca, the Nurburgring.
Jonathan Kennard, the F1 team’s heritage director, led the project and told the BBC team behind it had “absolutely loved” being involved in the car again.
“It’s probably one of our favourite cars that we ever made in our history, and there’s a lot of love and passion for the FW25 amongst all the team.”
