65 CONSTRUCTORS · 1950–PRESENT
From Alfa Romeo's dominant 159 Alfettas in 1950 to the factory squads of today. The chassis constructors — the ones that built the cars, hired the drivers, and (usually) paid the bills.
1950–1951 · Italian
Alfa Romeo Grand Prix
Won the first two F1 World Championships with Farina (1950) and Fangio (1951). The 159 Alfetta was so fast it was almost unfair. They withdrew when they realised the new cars were …
1950–1969 · British
Cooper Car Company
Killed front-engine F1 cars dead with the mid-engine Cooper T51. Jack Brabham won back-to-back titles in 1959–60. The revolution they started changed everything, permanently.
1950–present · Italian
Scuderia Ferrari
The only team to have competed in every Formula One World Championship season. Ferrari is not a team — it is a religion.
1950–1960 · Italian
Officine Alfieri Maserati
The 250F is one of the most beautiful racing cars ever built. Fangio won his fifth title in one. Privateer teams raced customer Maseratis for years after the factory withdrew.
1950–1951 · French
Automobiles Talbot-Lago
Pre-war cars pressed into service for the first World Championship. Heavy, thirsty, but reliable enough to finish races when the Alfa Romeos retired. Louis Rosier drove for them.
1951–1977 · British
British Racing Motors
The great British hope that was mostly a British headache. Graham Hill won the 1962 title. The V16 BRM was an engineering marvel that mostly failed dramatically. A cautionary tale …
1954–1955 · Italian
Scuderia Lancia
Built the revolutionary D50 with side-mounted fuel tanks as part of the bodywork. Fangio raced it. Lancia went bankrupt; they donated the cars and designs to Ferrari, who raced the…
1954–1960 · British
Vanwall
Tony Vandervell's team. Won the first-ever Constructors' Championship in 1958 with Moss and Brooks. British Racing Green when it mattered. Stirling Moss drove one to four victories…
1958–1994 · British
Team Lotus
Colin Chapman's team. The John Player Special black-and-gold era defined what an F1 car looked like. Clark, Hill, Rindt, Fittipaldi, Andretti, Senna. Pioneered ground effect. Never…
1962–1992 · British
Motor Racing Developments (Brabham)
Jack Brabham won the 1966 title in a car bearing his own name — the only man ever to do so. Bernie Ecclestone bought it. Nelson Piquet won twice. The BT55 was a mess but the BT46B …
1962–1997 · British
Lola Cars International
Mostly a customer chassis builder, not a works team. Supplied chassis to Larrousse, BMS, Scuderia Italia (briefly). Their 1997 F1 comeback attempt failed to qualify in Melbourne an…
1964–1968 · Japanese
Honda R&D / Honda Racing
Honda's first F1 works programme. Won the 1965 Mexican GP with Richie Ginther. The RA302 air-cooled V8 was controversial and killed Jo Schlesser at Rouen 1968. Honda withdrew.
1966–present · British
McLaren Formula 1 Team
Founded by Bruce McLaren. Won back-to-back constructors' titles with Honda in 1988–89, produced the most dominant season in history in 1988 (15 wins from 16 races). Now papaya agai…
1968–1972 · French
Matra Sports / Équipe Matra
An aerospace company that built an F1 car because it could. Jackie Stewart won the 1969 title with them. Their V12 engine was famously the best-sounding in the paddock — Ligier use…
1970–1992 · British
March Engineering
Robin Herd, Alan Rees, Graham Coaker, Max Mosley. MARCH. Built cars fast, sold them to anyone. Jackie Stewart drove one to second in 1970 — the first season. The orange STP livery …
1970–1978 · British
Team Surtees
Jack Surtees — the only man to win the world championship on both two wheels and four — tried running his own team. The results were modest. The effort continued until 1978.
1970–1998 · British
Tyrrell Racing Organisation
Ken Tyrrell's timber merchant-turned-racing team. Stewart triple, Scheckter. Built the six-wheeled P34 in 1976 because Ken Tyrrell thought four wheels was not ambitious enough.
1973–1982 · British
Ensign Racing
Mo Nunn's team. Clay Regazzoni scored points regularly for them. Never won. Always turned up. Ten seasons of honest midfield obscurity.
1973–1978 · British
Hesketh Racing
Lord Hesketh funded a racing team because he thought F1 was too dull. Hired James Hunt, wore white with a teddy bear logo, won the 1975 Dutch GP. The spirit of the enterprise was n…
1973–1980 · American
Shadow Racing Cars
Don Nichols' mysterious American team. Tony Pryce won Monaco 1975 for them in the rain, which felt like it came from nowhere. Very black cars. Arrows was born from a very messy tea…
1975–1982 · Brazilian
Fittipaldi Automotive
Emerson Fittipaldi left McLaren to race his own car, backed by Copersucar sugar company. Never quite had the performance. Carlos Pace drove one before his death in 1977. Emerson wo…
1976–1996 · French
Équipe Ligier
Guy Ligier built a patriotic French team that won nine races, never quite had the championship. The Gitanes livery — blue with a dancer silhouette — remains iconic. Sold to Prost i…
1977–1984 · German
Automobiltechnik Singen
Hans Günter Schmid's team. Used BMW turbos which were fast in a straight line and unreliable everywhere else. Niki Lauda drove for them briefly before walking out mid-season.
1977–2002 · British
Arrows Grand Prix International
Never won a race in 25 years and 382 starts. Still came second sometimes. The team was founded after a messy exit from Shadow and always felt one decent engine deal away from relev…
1977–present · British
Williams Racing
Frank Williams built a dynasty on mechanical simplicity and driver talent. Seven drivers' titles. Nine constructors'. Then a very long rebuilding project.
1977–1979 · Canadian / Austrian
Walter Wolf Racing
Walter Wolf was an oilman. He hired Jody Scheckter and won the very first race of their first season. Three wins in 1977. Then Scheckter left for Ferrari and the whole thing fell a…
1980–1990 · Italian
Osella Squadra Corse
Enzo Osella's team from a small town near Turin. Built their own cars from Abarth components. Rarely near the points but always present. The kind of team you only get in the pre-qu…
1981–1985 · British
Toleman Motorsport
Senna drove a Toleman in Monaco 1984 through the rain in one of the greatest drives ever seen, closing on Prost before the race was controversially stopped. Benetton bought them th…
1985–2005 · Italian
Minardi Team SpA
The team that gave drivers their shot when nobody else would. Gave starts to Alonso, Webber, Fisichella, Trulli. Bought by Red Bull in 2005, reborn as Toro Rosso. Minardi fans stil…
1985–1989 · German
Zakspeed GmbH
German touring car specialists who built their own turbocharged four-cylinder engine for F1. The engine was not good. The cars were not fast. The effort was admirable.
1986–1991 · French
Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives
A tiny French team from a village in Provence. Never troubled the scorers. Did the job of keeping the grid populated during the pre-qualifying days. Filed under: teams that tried.
1986–2001 · Italian / British
Benetton Formula
Bought Toleman, hired Schumacher, won two titles (1994, 1995). Sold to Renault in 2001. The Enstone base that became Alpine once held Schumacher, Alonso, and Piquet Jr.
1987–1991 · Italian
Coloni Motorsport
Enzo Coloni's team. Tried a Subaru flat-12 in 1990, which was too wide, too heavy, and too slow to pre-qualify. The Subaru experiment is one of F1's great engineering curiosities.
1987–1994 · French
Larrousse / Lola F1 Team
Gérard Larrousse's team used Lola chassis for most of their existence. Points occasionally. Often in the pre-qualifying scrum. Ended when the funding collapsed.
1987–1992 · British / Japanese
Leyton House March Racing Team
The Akira Akagi-funded March rebrand. Turquoise cars, Adrian Newey's first F1 design work, Ivan Capelli's stunning 1990 French GP performance where he led until the engine failed. …
1988–1992 · Italian
Scuderia Italia
Gianpaolo Dallara's team, run as Scuderia Italia. Used Ford and then Ferrari engines. Points occasionally — Andrea de Cesaris once led a race for them. Dallara now makes the chassi…
1988–1989 · German
Rial Racing
Günter Schmid after ATS. Andrea de Cesaris drove for them and actually scored points in 1988. Two seasons, then gone.
1991–1996 · British
Footwork Mugen Honda / Arrows
Arrows rebranded Footwork after a Japanese conglomerate bought the team. Same chassis, different name, same result — no wins. Reverted to Arrows in 1996 when the money moved on.
1991–2004 · Irish
Jordan Grand Prix
Eddie Jordan ran a chaotic, under-funded, perpetually-about-to-be-sold team that gave Schumacher his debut and won four races. The Jordan 191 remains one of the most beautiful F1 c…
1992–1992 · Italian
Andrea Moda Formula
One season. Founded by Italian shoe manufacturer Andrea Sassetti. Never qualified for a race. The team was thrown out of Formula One mid-season by the FIA. An absolute disaster by …
1993–present · Swiss
Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber
Peter Sauber's Swiss team. Run as BMW Sauber 2006–09, then as Sauber, then rebranded Alfa Romeo, now Kick Sauber ahead of the Audi takeover. Most names, fewest trophies.
1994–1995 · British
Pacific Racing
Keith Wiggins' team, graduated from junior formulae. Two seasons of pre-qualifying and slow lap times. One of several teams that proved how difficult the jump to F1 truly is.
1994–1995 · British
Simtek Research
Nick Wirth's team. Roland Ratzenberger was killed in qualifying at Imola 1994 while driving a Simtek. The team folded in 1995 when the money ran out. A grim footnote.
1995–1996 · Italian
Forti Corse
Two seasons at the back of the grid. Points never seriously threatened. Folded mid-1996 when the team could no longer afford to enter races. The last of the Italian also-rans.
1997–2001 · French
Prost Grand Prix
Alain Prost bought Ligier in 1997 and nearly made it work. Close to the points regularly. Went bust in 2001 when Michelin walked away from the title sponsorship. The best four-time…
1997–1999 · British / Scottish
Stewart Grand Prix
Jackie and Paul Stewart built a competitive team from scratch. Johnny Herbert won the 1999 European GP. Ford bought it and turned it into Jaguar — which is an instructive sentence …
1999–2005 · British / Canadian
British American Racing
Craig Pollock launched it with a lot of ambition and a Lucky Strike deal. Jenson Button arrived and started making it work. Honda bought it in 2005. The Brackley base that would ev…
2000–2004 · British
Jaguar Racing Ltd
Ford bought Stewart in 1999 and rebranded it Jaguar. The British Racing Green looked beautiful. The results did not. Mark Webber was fast. Ford sold it to Red Bull in 2004 for virt…
2002–present · French
Alpine F1 Team (née Renault)
The Enstone factory. Alonso's double title years 2005–06. Rebranded Lotus, then back to Renault, then Alpine. The car changes. The factory stays weird.
2002–2009 · Japanese
Panasonic Toyota Racing
The biggest budget in the paddock for most of their existence. Never won a race. Left at the end of 2009 — the same year Brawn GP, operating on a fraction of Toyota's spend, won ev…
2005–present · Austrian
Oracle Red Bull Racing
Acquired from Ford/Jaguar in 2005. Adrian Newey arrived and the championships followed. Four in a row 2010–13, then dominant again 2022–23.
2006–present · Italian / Austrian
Scuderia AlphaTauri (now Visa Cash App RB)
Red Bull's junior team. Bred Vettel, Verstappen, Tsunoda. Rebranded from Toro Rosso to AlphaTauri to RB. Whatever it's called, it exists to produce the next RBR driver.
2006–2008 · Japanese / British
Honda Racing F1 Team
Honda bought BAR, branded it Honda, won once in Hungary 2006, then walked away from F1 during the financial crisis. Ross Brawn bought it for £1 and won the championship with it.
2006–2007 · Dutch / Russian
Spyker F1 / Midland F1
Jordan became Midland F1 in 2006, then Spyker in 2007, then Force India in 2008. Orange cars, very few points, very many name changes in a very short time.
2006–2008 · Japanese
Super Aguri F1 Team
Aguri Suzuki — Japan's most successful F1 driver — ran a team on old Honda parts and sheer ingenuity. Takuma Sato scored points. The team collapsed mid-season 2008 when the funding…
2006–2019 · Italian
Scuderia Toro Rosso
Minardi bought, rebadged, and weaponised as a Red Bull junior team. Sebastian Vettel won the 2008 Italian GP here, the youngest race winner in F1 at the time.
2008–2018 · Indian / British
Sahara Force India F1 Team
Vijay Mallya bought the Spyker/Midland assets and turned them into a consistent points scorer. The pink livery was hard to miss. The financial problems eventually were not.
2009–2009 · British
Brawn GP Formula One Team
Ross Brawn bought the Honda assets for £1. Built a double diffuser that won 8 of the first 10 races. Jenson Button won the championship. Mercedes bought it in November. One perfect…
2010–2012 · Spanish
HRT F1 Team
Hispania Racing Team. One of the three new teams that entered F1 in 2010. Never scored a point. Went through ownership changes. Folded at the end of 2012. The anti-case study for n…
2010–present · German
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team
Eight consecutive constructors' titles 2014–21. Built on the ruins of Brawn GP. Hamilton and the silver arrows rewrote the record books, then Max Verstappen rewrote them again.
2012–2014 · Malaysian / British
Caterham F1 Team
Started as Lotus Racing, became Team Lotus, became Caterham after a naming dispute. Tony Fernandes funded it. The two green cars spent three years battling Marussia for 10th in the…
2012–2016 · Russian / British
Marussia F1 Team / Manor Racing
Started as Virgin Racing, became Marussia, entered administration, came back as Manor. Jules Bianchi scored points at Monaco 2014, their best ever result. He died from injuries sus…
2016–present · American
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team
The first American constructor since Eagles in 1969. Gene Haas runs a machine tool company. The team oscillates between surprise results and very bad Mondays.
2019–2020 · Canadian / British
BWT Racing Point F1 Team
The pink Force India rebranded when Lawrence Stroll's consortium bought the assets out of administration. Sergio Pérez won in Bahrain 2020.
2021–present · British
Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team
British Racing Green returned to the grid. Lawrence Stroll bought Racing Point, renamed it Aston Martin, signed Alonso. Adrian Newey signed in 2024. Patience required.