For me Williams, as everyone would expect, isn’t a job and I always said it’s like another child to me. “Claire’s achievement in sustaining Williams Racing’s heritage, relevance and commitment to innovation in a difficult environment since taking charge in 2013 has been nothing short of monumental. F1 video: Destination unknown for Sergio Perez. “We also made a lot of changes and brought new people into the team last year and maybe our expectations of what they could deliver in the timescale was exaggerated. “We’re very happy the new owners believe so strongly in the heritage of this team, and respect the name,” she says. At Williams we tackled that issue 12-18 months ago. I have a duty and responsibility to Williams as well, and home life has to take a bit of a back seat unfortunately at the moment. In Formula 1 a woman often has to work twice as hard as a man to be thought half as much of. But it’s also really important to say that we recruit on merit. So to let go of what had become part of the family was, as Claire puts it when we speak, “incredibly hard”. I have a lot of Dad, but also lot of Mum. I don’t know whether that’s because I don’t recognise it, or because I don’t know what people say when I’m not listening, how people judge me. READ MORE: Russell and Latifi insist they have faith in new owners as Williams family step down from the team, “I’m sure there will be at time when we do turn on the TV on a Sunday afternoon and watch it because that’s what we’ve done for the past 44 years, but all we’ll be doing is wishing this team well. It feels like grieving for us. “I feel a real responsibility and sense of duty to give something back to this team. Sir Frank has been the face of Williams, but his late wife Ginny – who passed away in 2013 following a battle with cancer – was hugely influential in the team’s success, from putting her own money into the team to holding everything together when Sir Frank had his serious accident. “The most important thing when you’re looking at gender pay is that women are paid the same amount as their male counterparts for doing the same role. Williams is one of the world’s leading Formula 1 teams. “It is with a heavy heart that I am stepping away from my role with the team,” Williams said. When Claire Williams walked out of the Monza paddock on Sunday evening earlier this month, the Williams family said goodbye to a sport they had made their home for more than 40 years. Like her illustrious father, she is as tough as tungsten beneath a benign exterior, but she also has a sentimental side. When Claire Williams bid farewell to Formula 1 at the Italian Grand Prix earlier this month, she didn’t expect it to be a big deal. The Williams family is to end its involvement in F1 after this weekend's Italian GP, with Claire Williams stepping down from her role as deputy team principal. “And I believe that we have got the best people in place to deliver it, and we’ll just need time in order to do that. For her, it’s nothing like the hurdle she faces, as Deputy Team Principal of one of the sport’s best-loved F1 teams, of turning around their fortunes. A woman who, since October last year, has had to juggle motherhood and the rigours of that job. “It has not been an easy decision but it’s one I believe to be right for all involved.”. My dad came from nothing in F1. In an exclusive interview with David Tremayne, she discusses twinning motherhood with leading an F1 squad, addressing the gender pay gap and why she feels "a responsibility and sense of duty to give something back to this team"... Look closely at every Williams car built since 2013, and you’ll find a butterfly logo. We have her logo, that we created when she died, on our race car. It’s why he leaves F1 with his team the second most successful of all time in terms of constructors’ championships. Recently, however, when the subject of gender equality was raised, she leapt on to her soapbox with a gusto of which Ginny would have been proud. While the last few years have been among the team’s weakest, Williams leaves the team in capable hands with financial firepower and the famous name intact. Few people enjoy two such strong role models as parents, but Claire is reticent when it comes to suggesting what she inherited from each. Yet there’s a sense of urgency. Listen to Chase Carey discuss his role in shaping F1’s future and guiding the sport through a global pandemic, Tsnuoda part of Red Bull family on merit, says Tost ahead of Japanese star’s Imola shakedown, F1 Tracks: Listen to Sergio Perez's playlist takeover, Latifi disappointed with lack of pace as Williams lose out to Haas and Alfa Romeo at Nurburgring. “They are certainly passionate about the team,” says Claire. It’s my job to give them everything they need in order to do that. But Frank’s passion has always been his team, it’s always been about going racing, whatever that might be – at the front or the back – he just loves it. “Obviously, it’s not been the start that we’d hoped for, and maybe we’d come into it with a bit of blind positivity, almost, believing we could turn things around in a greater way than we actually had,” Claire admits. Mum was Williams’s number one fan and Dad’s rock – you know that phrase behind each great man there is an even greater woman... She was the first lady of F1, and brought such great class to the sport.

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