Oliver Grey joins Williams Driver Academy programme

Williams Racing has verified that Oliver Grey has joined team’s Driver Academywith the younger driver established to contend in the 2022 British F4 Championship with Carlin.

Grey joins the Academy adhering to a profitable debut period in solitary seaters, in which he claimed two wins and two pole positions in the 2021 British F4 Championship. The British driver persistently put in just the leading 10, using 3rd in the really aggressive Rookie Championship. Grey rounded off the 12 months by competing in the Italian F4 Championship, working in the series’ closing 6 races at the historic Mugello and Monza circuits.

Grey amazed all through his global karting profession, in which he took various Motorsport British isles and British Kart Championship titles at the X30 Junior amount, together with professing vice-winner honours in the IAME Euro Sequence in 2019. In 2020, Grey recorded a noteworthy effectiveness in the WSK Euro Sequence spherical in Sarno, in which he dominated throughout the function.

As an Academy Driver, Grey will be immersed in just the Williams group, operating intently with departments throughout the business enterprise to help his advancement as a driver.

Talking about the announcement, Grey claimed, “Today is a unique working day in my profession as I can formally say I am section of Williams Racing! Williams is a group with so significantly record and accomplishment in Formulation 1 and I hope to a single working day be capable to incorporate to that.

“As I get started operating with the group, my speedy objectives are to produce as a driver the two on and off the observe, as perfectly as aim on my 2022 period I simply cannot hold out to get started off. There are tons of people today who have performed a job in my motorsport profession so significantly and I would like to thank anyone, especially Sven, Jost and the group at Williams Racing for their perception in me,” he concluded.

Sven Smeets, Williams Racing Sporting Director, additional “We are unbelievably delighted to welcome Oliver to the Williams Racing Driver Academy. He confirmed terrific expertise all through his karting profession and the group was amazed with his debut 12 months in solitary seaters. We are all searching ahead to operating with Oliver to ideal help his development by way of the junior motorsport ladder, and I’m assured that he will establish a terrific asset to our group.”