Williams Formula One team signs exclusive deal with Mobil to use synthetic oil in their cars to improve engine performance. – Vintage Photograph

Williams Formula One team has signed an exclusive deal with oil giant Mobil to use a new synthetic oil in their cars. The oil is designed to improve engine performance by two per cent and should help the Ford-powered cars compete with more powerful turbos. The team’s drivers Keke Rosberg and Derek Daly have not won any races this year, but their cars have consistently been among the points. The team also has a variety of cars in their fleet, including Jaguars, Triumphs, Rovers, Metros, and an Austin Ambassador.Williams Formula One team has signed an exclusive deal with oil giant Mobil to use a new synthetic oil in their cars. The oil is designed to improve engine performance by two per cent and should help the Ford-powered cars compete with more powerful turbos. The team’s drivers Keke Rosberg and Derek Daly have not won any races this year, but their cars have consistently been among the points. The team also has a variety of cars in their fleet, including Jaguars, Triumphs, Rovers, Metros, and an Austin Ambassador.

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UNC diaw FRANK WILLIAMS Land 11 GOOD deal with Mobil. TAG signed exclusive OM-TUTS DAY FRANK Williams’s Didcot-based grand prix team don’t miss a trick in trying to stay at the top. Designer Patrick Head’s ideas have sometimes proved too clever for the team’s rivals who have gone to great lengths to get them banned. Undeterred, Williams has signed an exclusive deal with oil giant Mobil. Williams Formula One cars are being used as guinea pigs for a new synthetic oil which should improve engine performance by two per cent, and help the Ford-powered cars fight the more powerful turbos. Declined In theory the oil not only helps performance but has fewer impurities and should help reliability. Although the team’s drivers Keke Rosberg and Derek Daly haven’t won any races this year the cars have consistently been among the points. Rival teams have been very inter- ested in the new oil, according to FRANK WILLIAN 1. Mobil’s Dr Tony Harlow. He said: “We have been ap- proached by other teams to supply this oil but we have an arrangement with Williams. As this oil is not com- mercially available we have declined to supply them.” LEYLAND may have stopped financial backing for the Williams grand prix team but there is plenty of BL hardware in the car park outside the Didcot factory. Frank Williams has a pair of Jaguars an XJ-12HE and an XJ-S HE and there’s a second XJ-12HE for chief designer Patrick Head. Keke Rosberg, the team leader, drives a Triumph Acclaim when he’s in Britain and a pair of Leyland T45 tractor units haul the racing car trans- porters around Europe. Other vehicles in the team’s fleet include latest model 3500 and 2600 Rovers, Metros, an Austin Am- bassador, Morris van and a Sherpa crewbus. –