Richard Williams

Richard Williams (1945 to 2021) was an Aston Martin specialist, racing team manager and businessman. He began as an apprentice with Aston Martin at Feltham in 1963, became team manager of the Peter Sellers Racing Team in the mid 1960s, and then set up his own business restoring and servicing Aston Martins, which grew into RS Williams Ltd and was appointed an Aston Martin Heritage Specialist in 2002. He managed teams at Le Mans and in Group C sports car racing, including the Nimrod project and the Ecurie Ecosse C2 team that won the 1986 C2 World Championship for Teams, and in 1988 he became Managing Director of Proteus Technology, which produced the AMR Group C Aston Martins. RS Williams also worked on the Sanction II and Sanction III DB4GT Zagatos. In later years he stepped back from running the company, handing management to his long-standing business partner Neil Thompson, and he died on 12 August 2021 at the age of 76.