Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Don kakar 1997, Frentzen ya maye gurbin Damon Hill a ƙungiyar Williams-Renault, wanda ya lashe gasar zakarun direbobi sau uku tun daga 1992. A tseren farko na kakar, gasar Grand Prix ta Australiya
, Frentzen ya jagoranci a farkon kusurwa kuma ya kasance a can har sai ya fara tsayawa. Yana gudu na biyu a ƙarshen tseren lokacin da faifan birki ya fashe, ya jefa shi daga zagaye kuma ya yi ritaya. Ya dauki nasararsa ta farko a San Marino amma kakar wasa ta kasance abin takaici a gare shi; bayan yanayin iyali a Sauber, Frentzen ya sami rayuwa a Williams da wahala, musamman ma yana da matsala tare da Patrick Head. Duk da cancantar tsere da yawa a layin farko yana da halin komawa baya a tseren, yawanci yana gamawa sosai a bayan abokin aikinsa Jacques Villeneuve. Duk da haka, saboda rashin cancantar Michael Schumacher daga gasar zakarun na direbobi, Frentzen ya ƙare a karo na biyu a gasar tare da maki 42 ga abokin Villeneuve na 81, bayan ya sami nasara daya ga Villeneuve na bakwai.