1994 Williams FW16B

This is one of the several Williams Cars on display at the Donington Park Museum when I visited in September 2014.

It's a 1994 Williams FW16, the car with which Damon Hill finished in second place in the 1994 World Championship to Michael Schumacher's Benetton B194. The car was designed by Adrian Newey and has a 3,500cc Renault RS6 V10 engine. The previous year’s World Champion, Alain Prost, had retired at the end of the 1993 season so the number 1 (which was always given to the previous year’s Champion) wasn’t used and Ayrton Senna had moved to Williams from the McLaren team to take the number 2 car, so Damon Hill’s car was given the number 0. Ayrton Senna tragically lost his life in a crash in the early stages of the third race of the season, the San Marino Grand Prix, where Roland Ratzenberger had already suffered a fatal accident during practice. David Coulthard, and Nigel Mansell towards the end of the season, took over the number 2 Williams car and the three drivers managed to gain enough points for Williams to win the World Constructors’ Championship.