The means at hand

Frank Williams Racing Cars was a British Formula One team and constructor, located in the very modest premises in Slough (picture-above), and led, with the means at hand, by the energetic entrepreneur Frank Williams.

For the 1973 Formula One season, Williams managed to attract backing from cigarette giant Marlboro and Italian sports car manufacturer Iso. The Politoys FX3 of the previous season was reworked as the Iso-Marlboro FX3B and a second car was built. Two new drivers were signed, New Zealand’s Howden Ganley and Italy’s Nanni Galli.

Introduced at the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix, the new, but still not very competitive Iso-Marlboro IR, was driven by eight different  drivers during the rest of the 1973 season. Ganley was the only regular driver and he scored a point with the car at the Canadian Grand Prix towards the end of the season.

Of the other driver: Galli, Pescarolo, Belso, McRae, van Lennep, Schenken and Ickx, only Gijs van Lennep was able to score a point, at his home race in Zandvoort (Dutch Grand Prix). Picture-below: team boss Frank Williams busy directing his mechanics, in the Slough garage.