How Old Is Frank Williams? Frank Williams Birthday
Frank Williams was born on April 16, 1942 and is 84 years old now.
Birthday: April 16, 1942
How Old - Age: 84
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Frank Williams - Biography
Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams CBE (born 16 April 1942) is founder and team principal of the Williams Formula One racing team.
Williams has used a wheelchair since becoming tetraplegic after a car accident in France on 6 March 1986. He was driving with team sponsorship manager Peter Windsor in a rented Ford Sierra from the Paul Ricard Circuit to the Nice Côte d'Azur Airport when the incident happened. Williams had been at the circuit to watch the testing of the team's new F1 car. But as a keen long distance runner, he was returning to the airport following the trials because he wished to compete in a fun run in London the next day.
During the drive to the airport, Williams lost control of the rental car on a slight left hand kink in the road causing it to leave the highway. An 8 ft (2.4 m) drop between the road and a field caused the car to roll onto the driver's side (left hand drive). Williams suffered a spinal fracture between the 4th and 5th vertebra after being pressed between his seat and the crushed roof. Windsor sustained only minor injuries.
Frank Williams met Virginia Berry in 1967 and they married in 1974. They had two sons, Jonathan and Jaime and a daughter, Claire. Virginia Williams (later Lady Williams and known by many as Ginny) wrote an autobiographical book A Different Kind of Life (published 1991) that describes her experiences in the Formula One team's formative years as well as her husband's near-fatal accident in 1986. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and died on 7 March 2013 at the age of 66.
