Minardi
Rookie season at the back of the grid.
The grid's longest career, spanning Minardi to Aston Martin, with two titles that ended Ferrari's early-2000s dominance.
Ranked 17th of 818 drivers on the all-time greatness score.
8 of 8 timeline entries shown · 2001 — 2026
2 championship seasons in this range:2005 · 2006
Win rate 7.3%Podium rate 24.1%Points 2381Best season 2005 (7 wins, 15 podiums)Titles 2005, 2006
Rookie season at the back of the grid.
World champion in 2005 and 2006.
One season alongside rookie Hamilton; tied on points.
Return to Enstone; wins at Singapore and Fuji.
Runner-up three times, twice by fewer than four points.
The Honda years; 'GP2 engine'.
Podium in Qatar 2021 after two years away.
Eight podiums in 2023; the team's most successful season.
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Founded by a driver, saved by a merger, and rebuilt three separate times into a championship machine.
Read the McLaren lineage from 1966 →Five identities in thirty years. Eddie Jordan's underfunded yellow upstart is now a Lawrence Stroll-funded works marque.
Read the Aston Martin lineage from 1991 →Giancarlo Minardi's back-of-the-grid Italian team survived by becoming Red Bull's driver academy — and won two races anyway.
Read the Racing Bulls lineage from 1985 →The Enstone team has raced as Toleman, Benetton, Renault, Lotus, Renault again and now Alpine — winning titles under two of those names.
Read the Alpine lineage from 1981 →