Kind words for Williams.

Williams' fifth special livery of the 2008 pre-season will feature handwritten best wishes from the team's seven world champions when the Toyota-powered FW30s take to the track at this week's group test in Barcelona.

Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve have all sent the team personal congratulations as it embarks on its fourth decade of Formula One during which - at the Italian Grand Prix in September -it should record its 500th grand prix start.

With comments as suitably Australian as "I was the first" from Jones to Mansell's "Fabulous 28 wins, Red Five", the livery is a celebration of some of the most evocative and talented names to have graced the sport in the past thirty years.

The 1982 world champion, Rosberg, commented "Thanks....for four great years", while Prost, Williams' 1993 champion added "Many thanks to all the team - I was proud to win my last world championship with you". The team's most recent title winners, Hill and Villeneuve, said in turn "Thanks Frank" and "Thanks for three amazing years
and the championship."

In addition to the good wishes from the seven champions, the names of the 31 drivers who have raced for the team in nearly as many years will grace the top of the monocoque, including such evocative names as Ayrton Senna, Mario Andretti, Carlos Reutemann and Clay Regazzoni, as well as more contemporary racers such as Jenson Button, Juan Pablo Montoya and David Coulthard.

Previous Williams celebration liveries have paid tribute to the men and women behind the team and the landmarks the team has racked up in its long history to date.