We all remember the unparalleled run of eight constructors’ titles and seven drivers’ titles in F1 history in less than a decade. Mercedes dominates turbo-hybrid era.
Yet it’s far from obvious for the big automakers to stand out in a competitive world where the loudest voices are (or have been) As great as a ferrari Or the British “garage enthusiasts” McLaren, Williams and Lotus (also From 2026, Sauber and Audi will compete in F1 together).
Make profit on Sunday, sell on Monday“” was the motto of industrialist Henry Ford II, as well as many other automotive giants, a slogan that could not be further from the racing DNA of the aforementioned names who, often due to their dedication to the sport, have driven billions for the world’s masters. US Dollar Investment Now let’s introduce the trading of white cars. some of the most iconic events.
Aston Martin pt.I and II
Aston Martin’s history in F1 begins long before 2021. DBR4/250Designed in late 1957, it also proved competitive in the first tests, but the 1958 World Championship was approaching and it was decided to postpone the debut until 1959.
It’s a pity that in 1959, a car that was competitive the year before was now an antique. Cooper and its revolutionary rear engineA solution that has clear advantages in speed and agility compared to other solutions. All rivals sooner or later went the Cooper route, except Aston Martin, which remained true to its project. result? In 1959, the British company had to settle for two sixth-place finishes in the F1 World Championship. next year, The evolution of DBR5 This game proved to be even less competitive than the last one, and after two games, Aston Martin bids farewell to the F1 worldby 2021, the conditions will be in place to make a good purchase. match point – A competitive car that even won the 2020 Grand Prix with Sergio Perez – Money from owner Lawrence Stroll, but most importantly from Purchased by Ferrari Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel.
However, the first season was a disappointment. A podium finish in Baku with Vettel wasn’t enough to make up for a season that fell too far from the top, ending in a disappointing seventh place in the constructors’ championship.
To make matters worse, the 2022 season is still underway and the car has never finished on the podium or finished in the top five in the championship under the Checkered flag. Who knew that adding one more noble would be enough? Multiple world champions like Fernando Alonso Turning the history of a prestigious British brand around with the biggest formula ever.
Peugeot: The choking roar of a lion
On February 13, 1997, after taking over the French Ligier team, Alain Prost announces the birth of Team Prost. The trans-Alpine saga could also receive significant support from the French government, which persuaded French carmaker Peugeot to become Prost’s partner, forming a dream team All across the Alps.
The first year is a transition year, the car is almost the same as the previous year, “Ligier” equipped with Mugen/Honda V-10, which also included driver Shinji Nakano, while the first tour guide was still Olivier Panis. Still, 1997 was the four-time world champion’s team’s best season. The JS45 helped Panis reach podiums in Brazil (third) and Spain (second), but broke his leg in an accident in Montreal. instead of french Italian Jarno Trulli was selectedAt the Austrian Grand Prix, he was leading the race for a long time when his Mugen engine exploded while he was in third place. From 1998 to 2000 the engine was changed to Peugeot, but the team was still far from the top spot, gaining only one point in 1998, 9 points in 1999 and even zero the following year, sadly Pros Te finished last in the championship, even behind the little Minardi. Second place with Trulli in the audacious 1999 European Grand Prix The only shining moment in these three years Unfortunately, this will also be the last time the French team takes the podium.
However, in 2001, the team was replaced by a New and powerful Ferrari engine, which wowed the whole circus with multiple top performances in winter testing. All premises were tested in Australia, with Alesi and Highfield performing little more than ninth and retirement.
The strategy was unveiled to the world, running on low fuel in a desperate bid to attract sponsors to improve an increasingly complex economic situation. 2001 will indeed be final year for france He would end his F1 adventure with four points and ninth place for the team. The final joy came in his hometown of Monte Carlo, where Frenchman Alessi unexpectedly won world championship points with an outstanding sixth place.
Jaguar Ford bankruptcy case
The new millennium in F1 brought not only Michael Schumacher and Ferrari’s coveted drivers’ title; Prestigious Jaguar brand enters top category. What immediately impresses is its eye-catching bright green livery, which features a giant white Jaguar on the bonnet, an iconic symbol of the brand.
Jaguar took over the Stewart team (1997-99), led by the legendary Jackie and his son Paul. The small team performed increasingly well at the Nürburgring, finishing in the penultimate round of the 1999 season. His first ever success with Johnny Herbert drive. This success was further amplified by Rubens Barrichello’s third place finish in the same race, which proved a truly competitive car and saw the team finish the season in fourth place. With these premises, Jaguar Keep the Ford engine Barrichello, who had already equipped Stewart and traded Ferrari for defending world vice-champion Eddie Irvine, entered the starting lineup for the 2000 season with confidence. However, the synergies between Jaguar and Ford didn’t take off and the first season looked stingy.
The following years, apart from two podiums for Irvine (Monaco in 2001 and Monza in 2002), the team’s performance was not much better, and they often topped the rankings. media is improved, with Young Australian Mark Webber He drove throughout the 2003 and 2004 seasons, but Sunday’s test was almost never confirmed.
Team principal Bobby Rahal’s failure to buy aerodynamic genius Adrian Newey from McLaren will have an impact on the team’s poor performance. Newey finally joined the team in 2006However, it was too late for Ford and Jaguar, as the team had long since been sold to Dieter Mateschitz, the Austrian entrepreneur who produced the famous energy drink Red Bull.
Toyota: Billions of dollars bankrupt Japanese manufacturing
The large amount of human, economic and technical resources available are not enough to change the status quo The winning team from the world’s second-largest automakerthus making his ten-year battle in F1 one of the most expensive defeats in the history of the category.
Massive multi-million dollar wind tunnel installed in Cologne Buy Fuji Speedway Taking Ferrari and Fiorano as examples, these two investments show that the Japanese team has made serious preparations by turning it into a test track. However, Toyota wanted to complicate things and decided to build the entire vehicle in-house: Chassis, gearbox and engine, and within a short period of time. At the end of 2002, the first season, the team only achieved 2 points and 10th place, a meager spoils from a crazy chase. It would not be until 2005, after two consecutive eighth-place finishes (2003-04), that the light at the end of the tunnel would appear. Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher scored 88 points for the team and an encouraging fourth place in the constructors’ championship.
In Malaysia, Trulli took his first podium in the team’s history (second place), the first of five podiums that season, as well as two pole positions. It was Trulli’s historic first in Indianapolis and his second at home in Suzuka. However, since 2006, instead of taking off, the team has regressed seriously again. First dropped to 35 points Finished twice in disappointing sixth place with 13 points (2007).
The world championship points in 2008 and 2009 were 56 and 59.5 points respectively, and the team reached the podium seven more times. Yet Toyota’s multi-million dollar history, played out with much fanfare, came to a tragic end at the end of that year, not only without winning or fighting, contrary to the premise, for the coveted world championship, but Didn’t even win a single victory.
Sliding Door: Honda 2006-2008
Let’s forget for a moment the success we had as a Williams and McLaren engine engineer in the eighties and early nineties, or even the last two seasons as a (more or less official) Red Bull partner Successful because he has a far less glorious history running his own F1 team.
The adventure began in 2006, when Japanese manufacturer acquires BARSince 2000, he has been the engineer of this team, which has performed well in the past few seasons and even won the 2nd place in the 2004 Constructors’ Championship 119 points behind the unparalleled Ferrari. In the year of its debut, new honda team With Jenson Button at the wheel, he immediately achieved his first success in the Hungarian rain. The first success and the prestige of the acquisition of Rubens Barrichello from Ferrari seemed to herald a qualitative leap for the team next year. None of that would happen, and instead, fourth place and 86 points in the first season remained a real mirage for the team over the next few years. In 2007, everyone will remember Honda for its unconventional earth uniformrepresents a Photos of Earth seen from spacethe consequences of suddenly abandoning a major sponsor lucky shot. However, the green single-seat car performed horribly on the track, scoring a total of 6 points and finishing fifth, the best in China.
In 2008, this crisis will continue. This year, Honda to take final podium finish at Silverstone However, Barrichello’s results were even worse last year, slipping from eighth to ninth among manufacturers. However, the worst was yet to come. In 2009, F1 foresaw a revolutionary regulatory change, but for financial reasons Honda decided hastily – in the midst of the global economic crisis – Sell all your materials quickly and sending drawings of the 2009 car to Ross Brawn for a nominal payment of one pound, of which The engineer who founded Brawn GP.
The Honda-like bike would dominate six of the season’s first seven grands prix with Button, improbably winning both the constructors’ and drivers’ championships. At the end of the year, Ross Brawn will sell the entire fleet to another big name in the automotive world, but the fate of the business in the top category will be very different from that of its former Japanese owner: we are talking about mercedes.