

Williams, a British constructor, competed in the 1996 Formula 1 season with Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve.
Williams won the 1996 constructors' championship with 175 points, 12 wins and 21 podiums – 105 points ahead of Ferrari. Williams won 12 Grands Prix, the last of them the Japanese Grand Prix, and scored 6 one-two finishes.
Final 1996 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 (Hill, VIL: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
16 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about Williams in 1996.
Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve drove for Williams in the 1996 Formula 1 season.
Williams scored 175 points in 1996 and finished 1st in the constructors' championship, 105 points ahead of Ferrari.
Williams won 12 of 16 Grands Prix in 1996, with 21 podium finishes and 6 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 | P1 | P2 | 16 |
| 2 | P1 | DNF | 10 |
| 3 | P1 | P2 | 16 |
| 4 | P4 | P1 | 13 |
| 5 | P1 | P11 | 10 |
| 6 | DNF | DNF | 0 |
| 7 | DNF | P3 | 4 |
| 8 | P1 | P2 | 16 |
| 9 | P1 | P2 | 16 |
| 10 | DNF | P1 | 10 |
| 11 | P1 | P3 | 14 |
| 12 | P2 | P1 | 16 |
| 13 | P5 | P2 | 8 |
| 14 | DNF | P7 | 0 |
| 15 | P2 | P1 | 16 |
| 16 | P1 | DNF | 10 |