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 Formula One World Championship.

Constructors and Teams

The constructors entered in the constructors championship consist of the manufacturer of the car and the make of engine used. Hence, 'McLaren-Mercedes' is the constructor. Where different engine manufacturers have been used during the year, the combinations are counted as different constructors in the championship. The most recent occurrence of this was in 1993 when Porsche's 3.5 litre V12 engine proved a disaster for the Footwork team. From mid season the team reverted to using Cosworth DFR engines and thus there are two entries in the 1993 constructors championship - Footwork-Porsche and Footwork-Cosworth.

In modern Formula One teams must own the intellectual property rights to their own chassis, so 'team' and 'constructor' are usually synonomous. There have been some recent exceptions where a specialist company 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. However, this has only been the case since the early 1980s. Before then, teams 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.

As of 2006 it is proposed that from 2008 teams will once again be able to buy chassis from other teams.

Active constructors

Future constructors

Beginning with the 2008 season:-

Defunct constructors

Team Seas Driv Race enter Race win Points PPos FLaps WC Const. WC Driv.
Germany Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau 1952-1953 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
UK Alta auto racing team 1950-1952 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
France Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives 1986-1991 10 76 0 2 0 0 0 0
Italy Automobili Turismo e Sport 1963 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germany Auto Technisches Spezialzubehor 1977-1984 15 101 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy Alfa Romeo 1950-1951, 1979-1985 10 0 2

Privateer teams

The following are teams which never built their own chassis, and thus do not strictly qualify as "constructors":

See also

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