What do an electric fold-up bike, high-altitude drone and supermarket fridge have in common? Believe it or not, they all run on technology developed in the high-octane world of Formula 1 racing.
“Williams sees itself as an engineering business that goes racing,” says Paul McNamara, technical director of Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE).
His job is to get the technology from the Williams Formula 1 cars on the racetrack out into the wider world.
The above examples aren’t the first time Williams’s inventions have moved away from Formula 1.
In the early days it was limited to other areas of motorsport, such as the Rover 6R4, an Eighties rally car version of Metro whose build was subcontracted...