1982 Williams FW08

This is one of several Williams F1 cars that were in the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's a 1982 Williams FW08 which was designed by Patrick Head and Frank Dernie, and was a development of the previous season's FW07. It was powered by the 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. Keke Rosberg drove the Williams FW07C for the first three races of the 1982 season, his team mates being Carlos Reutemann and then Mario Andretti, but when the FW08 was available from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards he drove that car with Derek Daly as his team mate. There were eleven different winners in the sixteen races that season, and although Keke Rosberg only won one of those races - the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois in France - he had enough high place finishes to win the World Drivers' Championship. Derek Daly didn't fare so well finishing in thirteenth place, so Williams only finished in fourth place in the World Constructors' Championship, which was won by Ferrari. I don't know why the car in the museum has a number 7 as Keke Rosberg's number in 1982 was 6 and Derek Daly's was 5.