I went for a job interview at Williams F1 at Grove in Oxfordshire back in 2002 as a CAD operator doing solid modelling.
The fella that interviewed me said that there was a big debate raging within Williams as to the point of their existence: Was the car a racing car or a moving advertising board? The more races you win the more you can charge for space on the car. No wonder they lost their focus for quite a few years.