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.

This list is accurate as of October 1, 2006. For a list of currently active constructors, see 2008 Formula One season.

1 Constructors and Teams
2 Active constructors
3 Future constructors
4 Defunct constructors
5 Privateer teams
6 Notes
7 See also

[edit] 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 1991 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.

The team refers to the organisation which enters and manages the cars and drivers at each race. Hence McLaren usually refers to the team.

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, 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. There have been more recent cases with Ligier (1995), Sauber (2004) and Scuderia Toro Rosso (2006), where teams have been accused of using a chassis produced by another constructor (respectively Benetton, Ferrari and Red Bull Racing). 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.

The limitation on teams using another constructors' chassis has only been in place 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. Rob Walker Racing Team was the most successful example, being responsible for the first victories in Formula One for the Cooper Car Company and Team Lotus constructors. The concept of a 'works' or 'factory' team - i.e. the official team of the company producing the cars, as opposed to 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.

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

[edit] Active constructors

[edit] Future constructors

Beginning with the 2008 season:-

Prodrive – Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom

[edit] Defunct constructors

Team	Nat	Season	Drivers	Races entered	Races won	Points	Pole postns.	Fastest laps	Podium finishes	WC Constr.	WC Drivers	First GP	Last GP
AFM	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	1952-1953 <ref>In 1949 and 1950 AFM partecipated at Formula 2 German championship.</ref>	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1952 Swiss	1953 Italian
AGS	Image:Flag of France.svg	1986-1991	10	46	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1986 Italian	1991 Monaco
Alfa Romeo	Image:Flag of Italy.svg	1950-1951 1979-1985	18	110	11	50 <ref>Points awarded from seasons 1979-1985.</ref>	12	14	26	0 <ref>From 1950 to 1957 Constructor World Championship is not awarded.</ref>	2 <ref>Awarded in seasons 1950 and 1951.</ref>	1950 British	1985 Australian
Alta	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	1950-1952 <ref>From 1948 to 1957 Alta was also an engine manufacturer for teams HWM, Cooper and Connaught.</ref>	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1950 British	1952 British
Amon	Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg	1974	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1974 Spanish	1974 Italian
ATS	Image:Flag of Italy.svg	1963 <ref>In 1964 and 1967 ATS was an engine manufacturer for teams Derrington-Francis and Cooper, raced at 1964 Italian Grand Prix and 1967 British Grand Prix with Mário de Araújo Cabral and Silvio Moser.</ref>	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1963 Belgian	1964 Italian
ATS	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	1977-1984	15	101	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	1978 Argentine	1984 Portuguese
Spirit	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	1983-1985	3	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1983 British	1985 San Marino