The Evolution of F1 Teams (1950-2024)

Great breakdown. Would love to see a follow up on some of the more successful teams no longer with successor on the grid and what led to their demise.

You forgot to mention that in 1981, the Renault works team was also alongside the grid when they were Toleman, so the Renault sports brand actually competed against themselves in the 80s

One part of the Tyrrell story everyone misses is that Tyrrell started out as the chassis division of Matra until Ken got sick of having to stick clumsy unreliable V12s in the back, went independent, grabbed a Ford DFV and started cranking out wins and titles whilst Matra fell off the map. Also I feel like it was worth bringing up that Sauber was essentially testing the water for Mercedes to enter F1 in 1993 having been their factory brand in World Sportscars for the last few years and guiding a certain Michael Schumacher to fame and glory.

good thing you didn't add their "official" corporate names, such as Cognizant Aramco Aston Martin, or Oracle Red Bull, or Moneygram Haas, every year would be different

To make it more confusion tolman race against the first renault team in the 80s

The fact I knew all this already shows I am: 1. Getting Old 2. A F1 nerd 3. Getting Old

You can make a case for Williams actually going back to 1969 although technically it was a different team. Williams ran under the banner of Frank Williams racing entering either customer March cars, and then constructing their own cars. Some years they ran branding of their sponsors such as Italian car manufacturer Iso and Marlboro to make the Iso Marlboro of 1973 but the cars had FX and later FW nunciature still in use today. It 1976 there were entered as Wolf Williams after a Canadian Billionaire Walter Wolf brought 60% the team. Williams and Wolf had a falling out and Williams and Patrick Head left to form Williams Grand Prix engineering and Wolf Williams became Walter Wolf racing. The first Williams built under the Williams Grand Prix engineering banner was the FW06.

A notable thing with Sauber is that in 2010, despite BMW no longer being part of the team, they were still officially known as BMW Sauber. Added to their getting a customer Ferrari engine, that meant that the team showed up on the tv graphics as BMW Sauber-Ferrari.

Perfect history lesson for newbies that are interested in the history of the sport. Not too much information and great graphics. And the Andretti hopium, chefs kiss

Dont forget how Williams was technically "Frank Williams Racing Cars" first

The fact that there has been 3 separate Lotus teams is weird, especially the 2 at the same time that you mentioned. Weirder yet, Caterham cars is known for continuing Lotus designs under licence, so when one of the 2 Lotus teams of the early 2010's was forced to change it's name, it was appropriate that the owner bought Caterham and renamed the team, Caterham.

Thought there was going to be some mentioning of how Frank Williams had to sell his first team before remaking it again…

8:53 you missed the great Rich Energy Story.

A nice run down of the changes for each of the teams. I was a bit disappointed with the Williams entry. Could have mentioned the earlier team (Frank Williams Racing Cars), in a similar way to the prior entries for Mercedes and Aston Martin. But then there's also how they started as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, but in 1979 became "Albilad-Saudia Racing Team" before the Williams name was put back in their entry from 1980 onwards. It just felt like the Williams entry for this video was half arsed.

What's even more confusing is that Renault raced against "Team Enstone" when they were Toleman.

Does Matt hate Prost or something. He won 3 titles with McLaren and one with Williams but failed to be mentioned in either section

This is the best video on this channel so far. Very informative and also entertaining!

Ferrari did leave briefly and NART (North American Racing Team) filled in for them for a few races so John Surtees could finish the season and win the world championship.

The sheer disrespect for forgetting Hakkinen at Silver Arrow Era McLaren and Piquet at Williams is outrageous.

Literally watched the 5 year old version of this an hour ago 😂