Williams, a British constructor, competed in the 1981 Formula 1 season with Carlos Reutemann and Alan Jones.
Williams won the 1981 constructors' championship with 95 points, 4 wins and 13 podiums – 34 points ahead of Brabham. Williams won 4 Grands Prix, the last of them the Caesars Palace Grand Prix, and scored 2 one-two finishes.
Final 1981 results after 15 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Reutemann, Jones: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
15 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Williams in 1981.
Carlos Reutemann and Alan Jones drove for Williams in the 1981 Formula 1 season.
Williams scored 95 points in 1981 and finished 1st in the constructors' championship, 34 points ahead of Brabham.
Williams won 4 of 15 Grands Prix in 1981, with 13 podium finishes and 2 one-twos.
Williams was founded by Frank Williams and Patrick Head and has raced in Formula 1 under its current identity since 1977. Clay Regazzoni gave it a first win at Silverstone in 1979, and it went on to win nine constructors’ championships, with drivers’ titles for Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. Since 2020 it has been owned by investment firm Dorilton Capital.
The team is based in Grove, Oxfordshire, and uses Mercedes power units. James Vowles has been team principal since 2023, and in 2025 Williams finished fifth in the constructors’ championship, its best result since 2017. The drivers are Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz.
| 1 | P2 | P1 | 15 |
| 2 | P1 | P2 | 15 |
| 3 | P2 | P4 | 9 |
| 4 | P3 | P12 | 4 |
| 5 | P1 | DNF | 9 |
| 6 | DNF | P2 | 6 |
| 7 | P4 | P7 | 3 |
| 8 | P10 | P17 | 0 |
| 9 | P2 | DNF | 6 |
| 10 | DNF | P11 | 0 |
| 11 | P5 | P4 | 5 |
| 12 | DNF | P3 | 4 |
| 13 | P3 | P2 | 10 |
| 14 | P10 | DNF | 0 |
| 15 | P8 | P1 | 9 |