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 December 30, 2007. For a list of currently active constructors, see 2008 Formula One season.

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Constructors and teams

In Formula One racing the terms "constructor" and "entrant" have specific and differing meanings. An entrant is the person or corporate entity that registers a car and driver for a race, and is then responsible for preparing and maintaining that car during the race weekend. As a result of this preparation role and active involvement in the running of the race, the term "team" has become commonly applied to an entrant organisation.

Under Article 6.3 of the FIA Sporting Regulations, "the constructor of an engine or chassis is the person (including any corporate or unincorporated body) which owns the intellectual rights to such engine or chassis." The title of Formula One World Champion Constructor is awarded to the car "make" that has scored the most points during the course of the season, where a car's make takes into account both engine and chassis. Hence, if a car's chassis and engine constructor are the same entity (e.g. Ferrari, Toyota, BRM etc.) then the make is simply the name of that one constructor. However, where the chassis and engine are constructed by different entities the car's make comprises both (e.g. McLaren-Mercedes, Lotus-Climax etc.), with the name of the chassis constructor being placed before that of the engine constructor. As both engine and chassis are included in the make name, chassis run with different engines (e.g. Lotus-Ford, Lotus-BRM) are counted as two separate makes. In these cases, the World Champion title is awarded to the constructor of the chassis. For this reason, this list only considers chassis constructors. For more information on engines, see Formula One engines.

Since the early 1980s the FIA have required that Formula One entrants own the intellectual rights to the chassis that they enter, and so the terms "entrant" and "constructor", and hence also "team", have become synonymous. Before this time constructors 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 both Cooper and Lotus. 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.

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. In 1978, the new Arrows team which had been established by former Shadow personnel was sued by Shadow on the grounds that the Arrows FA/1 car was a copy of Shadow's DN9 - a view upheld by the UK High Court, which placed a ban on Arrows racing the FA/1. There have been more recent cases with Ligier (1995), Sauber (2004), Scuderia Toro Rosso (2006 & 2007) and Super Aguri (2007 & 2008) where teams have been accused of using a chassis produced by another constructor (respectively Benetton, Ferrari, Red Bull Racing and Honda). 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.

2008 Formula One Season constructors

Name Nationality Base
BMW Sauber Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png (Sauber)
Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png Munich, Germany Template:Smaller
Ferrari Maranello, Italy
Force India Image:20px-Flag_of_India.svg.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Honda Image:22px-Flag_of_Japan.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
McLaren-Mercedes Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Surrey, United Kingdom
Red Bull-Renault Image:22px-Flag_of_Austria.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Renault Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Super Aguri-Honda Image:22px-Flag_of_Japan.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Toro Rosso-Ferrari Faenza, Italy
Toyota Image:22px-Flag_of_Japan.png Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Williams-Toyota Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Defunct constructors

Key: Races = Number of individual races entered; Drv. = Number of drivers; Entr. = Total number of race entries; Wins = Number of races won; Pts. = Number of Constructors' Championship points scored; PP = Number of pole positions; FL = Number of fastest laps; Pod. = Number of podium finishes; WCC = Constructors Championships won; WDC = Drivers' Championships won.


Constructor Country Seasons Races Drv. Entr. Wins Pts. PP FL Pod. WCC WDC First Grand Prix Last Grand Prix
AFM (Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau) Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1952-1953* In 1949 and 1950, AFM participated in the German Formula 2 championship. 4 6 9 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1952 Swiss 1953 Italian
AGS (Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives) Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1986-1991 80 10 124 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1986 Italian 1991 Monaco
Alfa Romeo 1950-1951
1979-1985 		110 18 237 10 50* Points awarded from seasons 1979-1985. 12 14 26 0* From 1950 to 1957 Constructor World Championship is not awarded. 2 1950 British 1985 Australian
Alta Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1950-1952* From 1950 to 1957, Alta was also an engine manufacturer for teams HWM, Cooper and Connaught. 5 4 6 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1950 British 1952 British
Amon Image:22px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.png 1974 4 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1974 Spanish 1974 Italian
Andrea Moda 1992 9 4 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1992 S. African 1992 Italian
Apollon Image:20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.png 1977 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1977 Italian 1977 Italian
Arrows a Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1978-2002 393 36 783 0 167 1 0 8 0 0 1978 Brazilian 2002 German
Arzani-Volpini 1955 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1956 Italian 1956 Italian
Aston Butterworth Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1953 4 2 4 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1952 Belgian 1952 Italian
Aston Martin Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1959-1960 6 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1959 Dutch 1960 British
ATS (Automobili Turismo e Sport) 1963* In 1964 and 1967, ATS was an engine manufacturer for teams Derrington-Francis and Cooper, racing at the 1964 Italian and 1967 British Grands Prix with Mário de Araújo Cabral and Silvio Moser. 5 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1963 Belgian 1964 Italian
ATS (Auto Technisches Spezialzubehör) Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1977-1984 107 15 146 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1978 Argentine 1984 Portuguese
BAR (British American Racing) b Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1999-2005 118 7 236 0 227 2 0 15 0 0 1999 Australian 2005 Chinese
Behra-Porsche Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1960 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1960 Argentine 1960 Monaco
Bellasi Image:20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.png 1970-1971 6 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1970 Dutch 1971 Italian
Benetton Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png/* From 1986 to 1995 Benetton F1 Team had a United Kingdom license; from 1996 to 2001, an Italian one. 1986-2001 260 17 520 27 851.5 15 36 102 1 2 1986 Brazilian 2001 Japanese
Boro Image:22px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.png 1976-1977 8 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1976 Spanish 1977 Italian
Brabham Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1962-1987, 1989-1992 402 39 995 35 843 39 42 124 2 4 1962 German 1992 Hungarian
BRM (British Racing Motors) Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1951, 1956-1977 208 71 559 17 385 11 15 61 1 1 1951 British 1977 Italian
BRP (British Racing Partnership) Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1963-1964 13 2 19 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 1963 Belgian 1964 Mexican
Bugatti Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1956 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1956 French 1956 French
Cisitalia 1952 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1952 Italian 1952 Italian
Coloni c 1987-1991 65 8 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1987 Italian 1991 Australian
Connaught Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1952-1959 18 29 52 0 0* Points not awarded prior to 1958. 0 0 1 0 0 1952 British 1959 United States
Connew Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1972 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1972 Austrian 1972 Austrian
Cooper Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1950, 1952-1969 129 111 528 16 301 11 14 58 2 2 1950 Monaco 1969 Monaco
Dallara 1988-1992 80 6 144 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 1988 Brazilian 1992 Australian
Derrington-Francis Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1964 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1964 Italian 1964 Italian
De Klerk Image:22px-Flag_of_South_Africa.png 1963, 1965 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1963 South African 1965 South African
De Tomaso 1961-1963, 1970 15 8 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1961 French 1970 United States
Eagle (Anglo American Racers) Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.png 1966-1969 26 7 35 1 17 0 0 4 0 0 1966 Belgian 1969 Canadian
Eifelland Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1972 8 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1972 South African 1972 Austrian
Emeryson Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1956, 1961-1962 6 6 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1956 British 1962 Italian
EMW (Eisenacher Motorenwerk) Image:22px-Flag_of_East_Germany.png 1953 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1953 German 1953 German
ENB (Ecurie Nationale Belge) Image:22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).png 1962 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1962 German 1962 German
Ensign Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1973-1982 134 25 154 0 19 0 1 0 0 0 1973 French 1982 Las Vegas
ERA (English Racing Automobiles) Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1950-1952 7 7 12 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1950 British 1952 Dutch
EuroBrun /Image:20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.png 1988-1990 46 5 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1988 Brazilian 1990 Spanish
Ferguson Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1961 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1961 British 1961 British
FIRST 1989 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
Fittipaldi (Copersucar) Image:22px-Flag_of_Brazil.png 1975-1982 120 8 156 0 44 0 0 3 0 0 1975 Argentine 1982 Las Vegas
Fondmetal 1991-1992 29 4 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1991 United States 1992 Italian
Forti 1995-1996 27 4 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1995 Brazilian 1996 British
Frank Williams Racing Cars d Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1972-1976 61 25 112 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1972 British 1976 Japanese
Frazer-Nash Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1952 4 2 4 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1952 Swiss 1952 Dutch
Fry Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1959 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1959 British 1959 British
Gilby Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1961-1963 6 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1961 British 1963 Italian
Gordini Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1952-1956 33 23 101 0 n/a 0 1 2 n/a 0 1952 Swiss 1956 Italian
Greifzu Image:22px-Flag_of_East_Germany.png 1952 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1952 German 1952 German
Hesketh Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1974-1978 60 15 97 1 48 0 1 7 0 0 1974 South African 1978 Belgian
Hill Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1975 12 6 21 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1975 South African 1975 United States
HWM (Hersham and Walton Motors) Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1951-1955 16 15 48 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1951 Swiss 1955 Monaco
Jaguar e Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 2000-2004 85 8 170 0 49 0 0 2 0 0 2000 Australian 2004 Brazilian
JBW Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1959-1961 6 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1959 British 1961 Italian
Jordan f Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1991-2005 250 30 500 4 291 2 2 19 0 0 1991 United States 2005 Chinese
Kauhsen Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1979 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1979 Spanish 1979 Belgian
Klenk Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1954 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1954 German 1954 German
Kojima Image:22px-Flag_of_Japan.png 1976-1977 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1976 Japanese 1977 Japanese
Kurtis g Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.png 1959 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1959 United States 1959 United States
Lambo (Modena Team) 1991 16 2 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1991 United States 1991 Australian
Lancia 1954-1955 4 4 10 0 n/a 2 1 1 n/a 0 1954 Spanish 1955 Belgian
Larrousse Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1993-1994 32 7 64 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1993 South African 1994 Australian
LDS Image:22px-Flag_of_South_Africa.png 1962-1963, 1965, 1967-1968 5 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1962 South African 1968 South African
LEC Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1977 5 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1977 Spanish 1977 British
Leyton House h Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1990-1991 32 3 64 0 8 0 0 1 0 0 1990 United States 1991 Australian
Life 1990 14 2 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1990 United States 1990 Spanish
Ligier i Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1976-1996 330 28 612 9 388 9 9 50 0 0 1976 Brazilian 1996 Japanese
Lola j Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1962-1963, 1967-1968, 1974-1975, 1985-1991, 1997 152 27 280 0 45 1 0 3 0 0 1962 Dutch 1997 Australian
Lotus Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1958-1994 493 122 1332 79 1332 107 70 172 7 6 1958 Monaco 1994 Australian
Lyncar Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1974-1975 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1974 British 1975 British
Maki Image:22px-Flag_of_Japan.png 1974-1976 8 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1974 British 1976 Japanese
March k Image:22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.png 1970-1978, 1981-1982, 1987-1989, 1992 208 54 579 3 172.5 5 7 21 0 0 1970 South African 1992 Australian
Martini Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1978 7 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1978 South African 1978 Dutch
Maserati 1950-1960 73 93 407 9 9 10 17 37 0 2 1950 British 1960 United States
Matra Image:22px-Flag_of_France.png 1967-1972 61 5 117 9 163 4 12 21 1 1 1967 Monaco 1972 United States
McGuire Image:22px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png 1977 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1977 British 1977 British
Mercedes-Benz Image:22px-Flag_of_Germany.png 1954-1955 12 7 32 9 n/a 8 9 17 n/a 2 1954 French 1955 Italian
Merzario 1978-1979 31 3 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1978 Argentine 1979 United States
Midland l Image:22px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2006 18 2 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2006 Bahrain 2006 Brazilian
Milano 1950 1 1 1 0 n/a 0 0 0 n/a 0 1950 Italian 1950 Italian
Minardi m 1985-2005 346 42 676 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 1985 Brazilian 2005 Chinese
Monteverdi n Image:20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.png 1990 2 2 4 0 0 0 0