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Button to race Guy Martin in 1983 Williams six-wheeler

Williams Heritage has teamed up with broadcaster Channel 4 to rebuild the first F1 car ever driven by Ayrton Senna. Speaking at Sheffield International Documentary Festival, presenter Guy Martin announced that he will be getting behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C to race world champion Jenson Button at Silverstone on the first day of the British Grand Prix weekend. Button will take on Martin in the most unusual of Formula One cars: the FW08B - a six-wheeled Williams prototype that was banned by the FIA just months before the 1983 season began. The showdown is the culmination of a new documentary, Speed with Guy Martin: Classic F1 Driver. To be aired on Channel 4 later this year, the...
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