The only team to have entered every season since 1950, and the only identity in the sport never to have been sold, renamed or rebadged. Full lineage →
Constructors
Team histories & driver rosters
Every marque that has entered a World Championship Grand Prix since 1950. Each card charts the team's active seasons and championship milestones, and links through to the full list of drivers who raced for it.
205 constructors
205 constructors active between 1950 and 2026
Sorted by greatest of all time · 205 constructors
Founded by a driver, saved by a merger, and rebuilt three separate times into a championship machine. Full lineage →
From a Surrey shed to the Silver Arrows: Tyrrell became BAR, then Honda, then Brawn, then Mercedes — the same constructor entry, sold and renamed five times. Full lineage →
Frank Williams's second attempt at a team became the most successful independent constructor in the sport's history. Full lineage →
Jackie Stewart's family team became Ford's works effort, then a drinks company's marketing exercise, then the dominant force of two rule cycles. Full lineage →
Team Lotus
British · 1958–1994 · 29 seasons
Colin Chapman's team invented the modern racing car three times over: the monocoque, sponsorship liveries and ground effect. Full lineage →
Lotus-Climax
British · 1961–1967 · 7 seasons
Brabham-Repco
British · 1966–1969 · 4 seasons
Cooper-Climax
British · 1959–1968 · 9 seasons
Matra-Ford
French · 1968–1969 · 2 seasons
Renault
French · 1977–2020 · 24 seasons
Lotus-Ford
British · 1963–1971 · 5 seasons
Vanwall
British · 1954–1960 · 7 seasons
A bearing manufacturer's private crusade to beat the Italians — and the winner of the first ever constructors' championship in 1958. Full lineage →
Kurtis Kraft
American · 1950–1960 · 11 seasons
Benetton
Italian · 1986–2001 · 16 seasons
A national project funded by British industry, famous for the shrieking H16 engine and one glorious 1962 championship. Full lineage →
Tyrrell
British · 1970–1998 · 29 seasons
Modena's other great marque: the 250F was the customer car of the 1950s and carried Fangio to his fifth title. Full lineage →
Brabham-Ford
British · 1964–1979 · 6 seasons
Watson
American · 1950–1960 · 9 seasons
McLaren-Ford
British · 1966–1970 · 5 seasons
The only team whose founder won the championship driving his own car — later Bernie Ecclestone's launchpad into running the sport. Full lineage →
Brabham-Climax
British · 1964–1969 · 6 seasons
Epperly
American · 1955–1960 · 5 seasons
An Austrian-Canadian oil millionaire's team that won its very first grand prix and finished runner-up in its debut championship. Full lineage →
The marque that won the first two World Championships with the pre-war Alfetta, then returned twice as an engine supplier and a works team. Full lineage →
A father-and-son workshop in Surbiton that moved the engine behind the driver and made every front-engined car obsolete. Full lineage →
Switzerland's only Formula One constructor, twice sold to a manufacturer and twice bought back — and Audi's works team from 2026. Full lineage →
France's state-backed national team, blue and Gitanes-liveried, which later became Alain Prost's short-lived grand prix project. Full lineage →
Cooper-Maserati
British · 1959–1969 · 9 seasons
Kuzma
American · 1951–1960 · 10 seasons
March-Ford
British · 1971–1971 · 1 seasons
Porsche
German · 1957–1964 · 8 seasons
Honda's first grand prix team built its own chassis and engines, won in Mexico twice, then became the sport's most successful engine supplier instead. Full lineage →
Eagle-Weslake
American · 1966–1968 · 3 seasons
Five identities in thirty years. Eddie Jordan's underfunded yellow upstart is now a Lawrence Stroll-funded works marque. Full lineage →
Champagne, a teddy-bear badge and no sponsors — the aristocratic party team that beat Ferrari at Zandvoort with James Hunt. Full lineage →
The customer-car factory that sold chassis to anyone — including a works team good enough to win grands prix, and a young Max Mosley. Full lineage →
A French missile manufacturer that won a world championship in two seasons, then walked away to build V12 sports cars. Full lineage →
Shadow-Ford
British · 1975–1975 · 1 seasons
Jordan
Irish · 1991–2005 · 15 seasons
The largest budget in the sport for eight seasons, thirteen podiums, and not one victory before the 2009 withdrawal. Full lineage →
Don Nichols's black-liveried Can-Am outfit whose Formula One story produced one win and, in a boardroom split, gave birth to Arrows. Full lineage →
Cooper-BRM
British · 1968–1968 · 1 seasons