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you Jim Clark was my my hero growing up and f1 of course is the the epitome of everything that's great about motorsport the glamour the excitement the speed at Williams of course what a legacy great engineering legacy great engineering foundation within this organization that's allowed us to build an advanced engineering group that we believe can tackle some of the most interesting issues and problems that the automotive industry the energy sector the defense sectors have to throw at us so it's a fascinating place to work a lot of challenges in the world today is improving efficiency and so energy comes with that so anything you're able to do to improve energy consumption or reuse of is where we sort of had a lot of strengths we're very good at taking a holistic view in coming up with you know a different way of approaching it a different way of solving the problem the organizers have formulary were looking for a group that would be capable of supplying all of those power systems the battery systems to this new single seat series and it was a project we were really interested in we had the first battery running in tests in the January 14 last year and then the right the first race was in Beijing in in August so we had a very aggressive less than 12 month program to develop the battery validate the battery produce 45 batteries and pass the UN 38.3 legislation which is so you can transport these batteries around the world by in flight and it was yeah it's completely delivered in in about ten months in total 675 which is one here at moment was another very challenging program very simple objectives it had to have the performance of the Bugatti Veyron the fuel economy of a Toyota Prius and the range of a Chevrolet Volt Williams did a terrific job in creating the C X 75 it really is a very special piece of automotive art a real challenge that we tackled exceptionally quickly and that's a hallmark really of advanced engineering was the Nissan GTR Time Attack car Nissan gave us a challenge they wanted us to engineer the GTR to take on the Nordschleife ER and we achieved the majority of the performance by advanced aerodynamics weight reduction with lightweight components strategically placed lightweight components and actually only had a very small engine performance upgrade and so we were very proud of the fact that we could we keep one at the time broke the lap record which was just over seven minutes for Nurburgring for which for a car that was 1,700 kilograms quite staggering but we're very proud of the fact that it was a very efficient solution for that the internal combustion engines far from dead and in fact there's nothing quite like a big v8 block we love high-performance cars but you know performance can be extracted in many ways and I think that the Eevee systems that we've developed here at Williams show that you can achieve great performance you can achieve it with great efficiency and you can still produce also many of the characteristics that engage motorists and keen automotive enthusiasts you