Williams, a British constructor, competed in the 1988 Formula 1 season with Riccardo Patrese and Nigel Mansell. Martin Brundle and Jean-Louis Schlesser also raced for the team.
Williams finished 7th in the 1988 constructors' championship with 20 points, 2 podiums but no wins – 179 points behind champions McLaren. Williams's best result was 2nd, by Nigel Mansell at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Final 1988 results after 16 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Mansell, Patrese, Brundle, Schlesser: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
14 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Williams in 1988.
Riccardo Patrese and Nigel Mansell drove for Williams in the 1988 Formula 1 season. Martin Brundle and Jean-Louis Schlesser also raced for the team.
Williams scored 20 points in 1988 and finished 7th in the constructors' championship, 179 points behind champions McLaren.
Williams did not win a Grand Prix in 1988; its best result was 2nd.
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 shared GPs
1 shared GPs
| Schlesser |
|---|
| Pts |
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| 1 | DNF | DNF | – | – | 0 | |
| 2 | DNF | P13 | – | |||
| 3 | DNF | P6 | – | |||
| 4 | DNF | DNF | – | |||
| 5 | DNF | DNF | – | |||
| 6 | DNF | DNF | – | |||
| 7 | DNF | DNF | – | |||
| 8 | P2 | P8 | – | |||
| 9 | DNF | DNF | – | |||
| 10 | DNF | P6 | – | |||
| 11 | – | DNF | P7 | |||
| 12 | – | P7 | – | P11 | ||
| 13 | DNF | DNF | – | |||
| 14 | P2 | P5 | – | |||
| 15 | DNF | P6 | – | |||
| 16 | DNF | P4 | – |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
3 |