Every Rebrand,
One Time Axis

Peter Sauber's Hinwil team has been sold to BMW, bought back, badged as Alfa Romeo and Stake, and becomes Audi's works team in 2026.

Toleman, Benetton, Renault, Lotus, Renault again and Alpine — Enstone has changed name more often than most teams change drivers.

Six identities in thirty-five years: Jordan, Midland, Spyker, Force India, Racing Point and Aston Martin, all from the same Silverstone site.

Tyrrell to British American Racing to Honda to Brawn to Mercedes: five names, one entry, and the longest rebrand chain in F1 history.

Giancarlo Minardi's underfunded Faenza minnow became Red Bull's second team and a proving ground for future champions.

Frank Williams went bust, sold out to Walter Wolf, walked away and started again — and the second attempt won nine constructors' titles.

A customer-car factory that entered Formula One to advertise itself, and kept returning under new owners.

Bruce McLaren's private team survived his death, was rescued by Ron Dennis's Project Four, and became a works-grade institution.

Jackie Stewart's start-up became Ford's Jaguar project, then a drinks company's flagship — and won eight drivers' titles.

Nearly four hundred Grands Prix, several near-wins, and not a single victory.

An aerospace company that won the world championship with Jackie Stewart, then chose its own V12 over winning.

The team that won the first two world championships, left immediately, and came back twenty-eight years later.

A works team, a customer-car business and Fangio's 1957 championship, all wound up by a road-car crisis.

Andretti's rejected entry bid became General Motors' Cadillac works team, the eleventh team on the 2026 grid.

France's national team, sustained by Gauloises and state-linked backing, and handed to Alain Prost after twenty seasons.

The only entrant to have contested every season since 1950, and the only lineage that has never changed its name.

Colin Chapman's team invented the modern racing car twice, then faded within a decade of his death.

The team that put the engine behind the driver and made every front-engined Grand Prix car obsolete.

The only team whose founder won the world championship in a car bearing his own name.

A national project funded by British industry that took sixteen years to win a championship — and did it once.

Tony Vandervell's bearing fortune bought Britain its first constructors' championship — and he quit as soon as he had it.

Honda's first works team won in only its second season, and its story restarts three more times in this archive.

The only current team built from nothing in the 2010s, and the first American constructor since 1986.

An American Can-Am outfit that won a Grand Prix, lost half its staff to Arrows and never recovered.

A champagne-fuelled aristocratic joke that beat Ferrari at Zandvoort with a car it built itself.

The only team to win on its championship debut in the modern era — and it lasted three seasons.

The largest budget in Formula One history at the time, eight seasons, thirteen podiums and no wins.