List of Formula One constructors

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The following is a list of constructors which have competed or plan to compete in the FIA World Championship.

This list is accurate as of October 1, 2006. For a list of currently active constructors, see 2007 Formula One season.

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[edit] Constructors and Teams

The constructors entered in the constructors championship consist of the manufacturer of the car and the make of engine used. Hence, 'McLaren-Mercedes' is the constructor. Where different engine manufacturers have been used during the year, the combinations are counted as different constructors in the championship. The most recent occurrence of this was in 1991 when Porsche's 3.5 litre V12 engine proved a disaster for the Footwork team. From mid season the team reverted to using Cosworth DFR engines and thus there are two entries in the 1993 constructors championship - Footwork-Porsche and Footwork-Cosworth.

The team refers to the organisation which enters and manages the cars and drivers at each race. Hence McLaren usually refers to the team.

In modern Formula One teams must own the intellectual property rights to their own chassis, so 'team' and 'constructor' are usually synonymous. There have been some recent exceptions where a specialist company, not itself entered in the championship, has been commissioned to design and build a chassis for a team - Lola built cars for Larrousse and Scuderia Italia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, for example. Larousse had their points from the 1990 season erased after the FIA decided that they had falsely nominated themselves and not Lola as the chassis constructor. There have been more recent cases with Ligier (1995), Sauber (2004) and Scuderia Toro Rosso (2006), where teams have been accused of using a chassis produced by another constructor (respectively Benetton, Ferrari and Red Bull Racing). No action was taken against any of these teams, the sporting authorities being satisfied in each case that the team owned the intellectual property to the chassis they raced.

The limitation on teams using another constructors' chassis has only been in place since the early 1980s. Before then, teams were free to sell their chassis to as many other teams as they liked. Brabham and Lotus chassis were used extensively by other teams during the 1960s and 1970s and several quite competitive teams never built their own chassis. Rob Walker Racing Team was the most successful example, being responsible for the first victories in Formula One for the Cooper Car Company and Team Lotus constructors. The concept of a 'works' or 'factory' team - i.e. the official team of the company producing the cars, as opposed to a 'customer' team which buys them off the shelf, therefore applied to chassis in the same way as it does to engines in modern Formula One.

As of 2006 it is proposed that starting in 2008 teams will once again be able to buy chassis from other teams.

[edit] Active constructors

[edit] Future constructors

Beginning with the 2008 season:-

[edit] Defunct constructors

Constructor Nat Season Drivers Races
entered		 Races
won		 Points Pole
postns.		 Fastest
laps		 Podium
finishes		 WC
Constr.		 WC
Drivers		 First GP Last GP
Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau (AFM) Flag of Germany 1952-1953[1] 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1952 Swiss 1953 Italian
Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives (AGS) Flag of France 1986-1991 10 46 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1986 Italian 1991 Monaco
Alfa Romeo Flag of Italy 1950-1951
1979-1985		 18 110 11 50[2] 12 14 26 0[3] 2[4] 1950 British 1985 Australian
Alta Flag of United Kingdom 1950-1952[5] 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1950 British 1952 British
Amon Flag of New Zealand 1974 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1974 Spanish 1974 Italian
Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS) Flag of Italy 1963[6] 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1963 Belgian 1964 Italian
ATS Flag of Germany 1977-1984 15 101 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1978 Argentine 1984 Portuguese
Andrea Moda Formula Flag of Italy 1992 4 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1992 South African 1992 Italian
Anglo American Racers (Eagle) Flag of United States 1966-1969 5 25 1 17 0 0 4 0 0 1966 Belgian 1969 Canadian
Apollon Flag of Switzerland 1977 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1977 Italian 1977 Italian
Arrows[7] Flag of United Kingdom 1978-2002 36 368 0 164 1 1 8 0 0 1978 Brazilian 2002 German


[edit] Indy 500 only

Constructors whose only World Championship participation was in the Indianapolis 500 1950-1960.

[edit] Privateer teams

The following are teams which never built their own chassis, and thus were not "constructors":

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ In 1949 and 1950 AFM participated at Formula 2 German championship.
  2. ^ Points awarded from seasons 1979-1985.
  3. ^ From 1950 to 1957 Constructor World Championship is not awarded.
  4. ^ Awarded in seasons 1950 and 1951.
  5. ^ From 1948 to 1957 Alta was also an engine manufacturer for teams HWM, Cooper and Connaught.
  6. ^ In 1964 and 1967 ATS was an engine manufacturer for teams Derrington-Francis and Cooper, raced at 1964 Italian Grand Prix and 1967 British Grand Prix with Mário de Araújo Cabral and Silvio Moser.
  7. ^ Arrows formally went under the name Footwork 1991-1996
  8. ^ From 1986 to 1995 Benetton F1 Team had a United Kingdom license; from 1996 to 2001, an Italian one.

[edit] See also

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