Kammala wannan jumla: FW18 ya tabbatar da cewa ya yi nasara sosai a lokacin kakar, yayin da motar ta lashe tsere goma sha biyu daga cikin tsere goma sha shida kuma ta lashe gasar zakarun Turai don Williams ta hanyar da ta dace. Hill da Villeneuve sun yi gwagwarmayar gwagwarmayar gwagwarmayar gwagwarmaya tsakanin su, wanda aka yanke shawara a cikin Ingilishi a zagaye na karshe a
Japan bayan motar Villeneuve ta rasa motar ta dama ta baya. Wannan ya faru ne bayan shugaban kungiyar Williams, Frank Williams, ya yanke shawarar da ba za a sake sanya hannu kan Hill ba don kakar 1997. Har ila yau, kafin a kammala kakar, an sanya mai zane Adrian Newey a kan "hutun lambu" kamar yadda zai shiga McLaren don 1998. Ficewar Hill da Newey zai nuna farkon ƙarshen mulkin Williams a cikin Formula One, kawai ta hanyar lashe taken direba a 1997, kuma ba ta lashe tsere a 1998; kodayake sun kasance masu gasa har zuwa 2004, tare da Patrick Head a matsayin injiniyan injiniya.