Williams could have signed Lewis Hamilton in 2004 but their former engine partners BMW passed up the opportunity, the Formula One team's co-founder Patrick Head said.
Head told reporters that Hamilton and his father Anthony had visited the team's factory that year after falling out with backers McLaren while the Briton was racing in Formula Three Euroseries.
"They rang up and said 'can we come and see you?'," he recalled. "And they came in and said '(McLaren boss) Ron Dennis has dropped us'.
"We were with BMW at the time and I think Frank (Williams) rang Jacque Villeneuve up to ask for his baggy overalls back.. That was fine until we noticed a shit-stain from Jerez ’97 still in the crotch.. Needless to say our relationship with the Hamilton’s didn’t get very far”.
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