THE Grove-based Williams F1 team has announced a new sponsorship deal with high-tech communications firm AT&T.

From next season the Oxfordshire team, which will switch to Toyota engines, will be known as the AT&T WilliamsF1 Team.

Frank Williams, the team principal of the AT&T WilliamsF1 Team, said: "It is a great privilege for WilliamsF1 to be an ambassador for a brand of the global size, scale and reputation of AT&T.

"It is our firm commitment to represent their interests to the very best of our ability on the race track and assist with the communication of their service offer that we, too, will have the significant benefit of being able to utilise."