News Published on : 05-Jan-2022 12:22:14

Prestige car builders and restoration firm Fifteen Eleven Design created history last month as they were chosen to fully recommission the 1980 Williams FW07/04 Formula 1 car that Alan Jones used in his World Championship title-winning season. From their premises in Bakewell Derbyshire Fifteen Eleven extensively restored the iconic racer with a ground-up re-build after dismantling and shipping the machine from its Saudi Arabian home. After a painstaking eight-week restoration the legendary car was then returned to Jeddah where it was the first Formula 1 car to sample the all-new race circuit used as the penultimate round of the 2021 F1 World Championship. It was then driven by a host of F1 legends such as David Coulthard Emerson Fittipaldi and Damon Hill and featured in a Sky Sports documentary. The raucous Williams FW07/04 was first used by Australian F1 star Alan Jones in 1979 and would be the car that propelled him to the prestigious Drivers title and Williams to the Constructors title in 1980. Jones would pilot 04 in the Argentinian Grand Prix in January of 1980 taking pole position and subsequent the race win laying the foundations for a stellar season in the World Championship.