Tyrrell Racing Organisation to Brawn GP

1970–1998: Ken Tyrrell's constructor years

Tyrrell Racing Organisation

Built in a wooden shed at a Surrey timber yard; 1971 constructors' title, drivers' titles in 1971 and 1973.

Ken Tyrrell had run Matra's works effort in 1968–69, winning the title with Jackie Stewart, before building his own car when Matra insisted on its own engine. The Tyrrell 001 appeared in 1970; Stewart won championships in 1971 and 1973 and the team took the 1971 constructors' title.

The six-wheeled P34 of 1976 remains the most famous car the team built. After Stewart's retirement the team gradually slid down the grid, surviving on ingenuity — Jean Alesi's debut season, Harvey Postlethwaite's high-nose 019 — rather than money.

By 1997 Tyrrell was out of resources and sold to British American Tobacco's Craig Pollock and Adrian Reynard. The team ran a final, near-invisible season in 1998 as Tyrrell.

2010 to today: the hybrid dynasty

Mercedes-AMG Petronas

Eight constructors' and seven drivers' titles; 2014–2021 hybrid-era dominance.

Daimler and Aabar bought a controlling stake at the end of 2009 and the team returned as Mercedes-Benz's works entry, with Michael Schumacher lured out of retirement alongside Nico Rosberg.

The 2014 hybrid regulations, prepared for years in advance at Brixworth, produced eight consecutive constructors' championships from 2014 to 2021, drivers' titles for Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, and the most one-sided era of the modern sport.

Toto Wolff has run the team throughout. George Russell and Kimi Antonelli now carry the entry that Ken Tyrrell started in a timber yard.

1999–2005: tobacco money at Brackley

British American Racing

Bought by BAT after Ken Tyrrell sold up; big budget, zero wins.

BAR bought the entry to give Jacques Villeneuve a team, moved into a new factory at Brackley and promised instant success. The 1999 season produced zero points from sixteen races.

Honda came in as engine supplier in 2000 and then as part-owner. Under David Richards and then Nick Fry the team improved sharply, finishing second in the 2004 constructors' championship with Jenson Button.

2006–2008: the works Honda experiment

Honda Racing F1 Team

Honda bought out BAT's stake outright; withdrew in the 2008 financial crisis.

Honda bought BAR outright for the 2006 season, making Brackley a full manufacturer works team. Button won at Hungary in 2006 — the team's first victory — but 2007 and 2008 were dismal, the earth-liveried RA107 becoming a byword for wasted resources.

In December 2008, with the financial crisis biting, Honda announced its immediate withdrawal from Formula One and put the team up for sale.

2009: the one-season champion

Brawn GP

Bought for a symbolic £1; won both championships in its only season.

Ross Brawn led a management buyout for a nominal sum, saving several hundred jobs and inheriting a car designed with a double-diffuser interpretation of the new 2009 rules. Mercedes supplied engines at short notice.

Button won six of the first seven races. Brawn GP took both the drivers' and constructors' championships in its only season of existence — the only team ever to do so — and was sold before it could defend either.