This is an exclusive project of historic information from the world of Formula One. On The Grid chronicles the history of drivers with all Formula One teams dating back to 1950 to the present.

This series of information are only possible due to the hard work and support of Clive Branson – www.provocadv.com. We hope you will find it of interest and informative as to how Formula One drivers’ careers developed and ended.

GILBY

TEAM: GILBY
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1961-1963
COMMENT: Gilby Engineering was a motor racing team and later racing car constructor from the United Kingdom. The team competed in 12 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, including 6 with cars of their own construction. The Gilby cars were constructed by Syd Greene originally for his son Keith to drive. Keith later became better known as a team manager in Formula One and sports car racing.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Gilby-Climax (NIL)
1961 Keith Greene GB NIL
Gilby-BRM (NIL)
1962 Keith Greene GB NIL (After retiring from driving, Greene became a team manager in F1 and sports car racing.)
Gilby-BRM (NIL)
1963 Ian Raby GB NIL (Retired from F.1.)

HESKETH

TEAM: HESKETH
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1973-1978
COMMENT: The eccentric Aristocrat the Lord Hesketh met up with Anthony ‘Bubbles’ Horsley, and the pair entered various Formula Three events around Europe in 1972, with the mission objective simply to have as much fun as possible. Unsurprisingly, given Horsley’s lack of experience, results were thin on the ground. Hesketh then met up with James Hunt, who had a reputation for being very fast, but also for writing off cars, and at the time was unemployed. Hesketh took on Hunt as one of his drivers for F3.
The Hesketh team had a growing reputation for their playboy style, arriving at races in Rolls-Royce cars, drinking champagne regardless of their results, and checking the entire team into five-star hotels. By the middle of the season Hunt and “Bubbles” had written off both Formula Three cars. Horsley decided to leave the cockpit, switching to the team management.
Hesketh rented a Surtees TS9 for the non-championship Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, with Hunt finishing 3rd. This success led to the purchase of a March 731, with Hesketh also signing junior March designer Harvey Postlethwaite to modify the chassis, working from Hesketh’s Easton Neston estate. The car made its first appearance at the 1973 Monaco Grand Prix, where Hunt ran 6th before the engine failed. He would score a point at the team’s next entry, the French Grand Prix, improve to 4th for the British Grand Prix, then 3rd for the Dutch Grand Prix. He then took a superb 2nd place in the season-closing United States Grand Prix.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Hesketh-Ford
1973 James Hunt GB 8th (14 pts.)(Not entered as a constructor.)
Hesketh-Ford (6th – 15 pts.)
1974 James Hunt GB 8th (15 pts.)
1974 Ian Scheckter RSA NIL (Tyrrell-Ford)
Hesketh-Ford (4th – 33 pts.)
1975 James Hunt GB 4th (33 pts.) (McLaren-Ford)
1975 Alan Jones AUS 17th (Hill-Ford)
1975 Torsten Palm S NIL (Rallying)
1975 Harald Ertl A NIL
1975 Brett Lunger USA NIL (Surtees-Ford)
Hesketh-Ford (NIL)
1976 Rolf Stommelen D T-19th (Sports car racing)
1976 Guy Edwards GB NIL (Stanley-BRM)
1976 Alex Ribeiro-Diaz BR NIL (Hollywood March-Cosworth)
1976 Harald Ertl A NIL (Ensign-Ford)
Penthouse Hesketh-Ford (NIL)
1977 Rupert Keegan GB NIL (Surtees-Ford)
1977 Harald Ertl A NIL (Ensign-Ford)
1977 Ian Ashley GB NIL (Retired from F.1. Pilot for executive jets/Various racing.)
1977 Hector Rebaque MEX NIL (Lotus-Ford)
Olympus Hesketh-Ford (NIL)
1978 Derek Daly GB NIL (Tissot Ensign-Ford midway through the season.)
1978 Eddie Cheever USA NIL (Formula 2 before being picked up by Osella in 1980.)
1978 Divina Galica GB NIL (British Shellsport Championship)

The team were sold to Walter Wolf.

HILL EMBASSY RACING

TEAM: HILL EMBASSY RACING
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1973-1975
COMMENT: Embassy Hill was a short-lived Formula One team started by the two-time Formula One world-champion Graham Hill, racing as a constructor with its own chassis in 1975. The team debuted in 1973 and had limited success in three seasons of racing, but everything was cut short by the death of Graham Hill and some of the team’s top personnel in a small plane crash months before the 1976 season. The team was sponsored by Imperial Tobacco’s Embassy cigarette brand and ran under various names during its time.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Hill Embassy-Ford (Shadow) (NIL)
1973 Graham Hill GB NIL
Hill Embassy-Ford (Lola) (1 pt.)
1974 Graham Hill GB 1 pt. 18th
1974 Guy Edwards GB NIL (Penthouse Rizia Racing Hesketh)
1974 Rolf Stommelen D NIL
1974 Peter Gethin GB NIL (Formula 5000 and won the Tasman Series.)
Hill Embassy-Ford (Lola) (3 pts. 11th)
1975 Graham Hill GB NIL (Retired as a driver to resume duties as team manager.)
1975 Tony Brise GB 1 pt. (Brise and four other members of the team were killed when their plane, piloted by Hill, crashed at Arkley golf course, in thick fog.)
1975 Rolf Stommelen D NIL (Martini Racing Brabham)
1975 François Migault F NIL (Frank Williams Racing)
1975 Vern Schuppan RSA NIL (Team Surtees Cosworth)
1975 Alan Jones AUS 2 pts. (Williams Racing)

On a foggy day in late November 1975, Hill personnel were returning from France where they had tested next year’s GH2 model when their small plane crashed near London and everyone on board, including Hill, Smallman and Brise, were killed. The racing community lost six members from the Hill team total.

Hispania Racing F1 Team

TEAM: HRT F1 Team
NATIONALITY: ES
INCEPTION: 2010-
COMMENT: Hispania Racing F1 Team, officially known as HRT F1 Team, and previously as Campos Meta 1, is a Spanish Formula One team founded by former driver Adrián Campos, before being taken over by José Ramón Carabante. The team made its debut in the 2010 Formula One season. It is the first Spanish team to race in Formula One; a previous effort known as “Bravo F1″ failed to enter the sport in 1993.

In 2009, Bernie Ecclestone voiced concerns about the team’s ability to be on the grid for the first race of the 2010 F1 season. In January 2010, A1 Grand Prix principal Tony Teixeira was one of several potential investors, rumoured as a potential buyer of Honda at the end of 2008; however, the team admitted that they may not be able to participate in the 2010 winter testing season at all and that their second driver may not be announced until the eve of their first race. In February, Campos boss Adrián Campos told BBC Sport that the team were struggling to find funding. It was paying the €7 million to Dallara stating that “sometime we have the money sometime we don’t”. On February 19, it was announced that majority shareholder José Ramón Carabante had taken over full control of the team from Adrián Campos, who was also replaced as team principal by Colin Kolles. The team was re-named to Hispania Racing F1 Team (HRT) ahead of their first race, with the name taken from Grupo Hispania, one of Carabante’s companies. The team’s headquarters were moved from Meta Image’s offices Madrid to Grupo Hispania’s offices in Murcia. On March 4, Karun Chandhok was confirmed as the team’s second driver. The team launched their Cosworth-powered, Dallara-designed car later the same day; it was called the F110.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Campos Meta-Cosworth (NIL)
2010 Bruno Senna BR NIL (Test driver for Lotus-Renault)
2010 Karun Chandhok IND NIL (Replaced by Christian Klien. Became BBC commentator.)
2010 Christian Klien D NIL (Aston Martin DTM/Le Mans series)
2010 Sakon Yamamoto JAP NIL (Filled in for a disqualified Christian Klien for one race.)
TATA-Cosworth (NIL.)
2011 Daniel Ricciardo AUS NIL
2011 Narain Karthikeyan IND NIL
2011 Tonio Liuzzi I NIL

HWM

TEAM: HWM
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1951-1955
COMMENT: Hersham and Walton Motors (HWM) was a racing car constructor. It is best known for its involvement in Formula One from 1951 to 1955. HWM owners George Abecassis and John Heath started a racing team in 1946 with an Alta-engined car and called it an HWM, after their garage, based in Walton-on-Thames, England. Besides Formula One, the team was also involved in sports car racing, and also used Jaguar
engines. John Heath was killed on the 1956 Mille Miglia in Italy. Abecassis discontinued the team soon after. Hersham and Walton Motors continues to this day as an Audi and Aston Martin dealership.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
HWM-Alta Straight
1951 George Abecassis GB NIL (Co-founder of the HWM Formula One team)
1951 Stirling Moss GB NIL
HWM-Alta Straight
1952 Paul Frere B 16th (2 pts.)
1952 Dries van der Lof NL NIL (Retired from F.1. (b: 1919 d: 1990)
1952 George Abecassis GB NIL (Sports Car racing/24 Hours Le Mans/12 Hours of Sebring. In 1956 Heath was killed in an accident in the Mille Miglia and Abecassis retired from racing, turning his attention to running the HWM operations. He was the Facel Vega importer for Britain, while his motor industry connections were aided by the fact that he was married to Angela, the daughter of Aston Martin chairman Sir David Brown. Later he opened a commercial activity in a grocery store. He died aged 78.)
1952 Johnny Claes B NIL (Simca-Gordini)
1952 Lance Macklin GB NIL
1952 Peter Collins GB NIL
1952 Roger Laurent B NIL (Ferrari)
1952 Stirling Moss GB NIL (ERA Bristol-Straight/Connaught)
1952 Tony Gaze GB NIL (After the war Tony became Australia’s first official formula one driver by competing in the 1952 Belgian GP. He also helped establish the Goodwood motor racing circuit in 1948 by suggesting it as a potential replacement for Brooklands to the Duke of Richmond. Today the Goodwood circuit remains a premier track as it stages the annual ‘Festival of Speed’ and ‘Goodwood Revival’ meetings.)
1952 Yves Giraud-Cabantous F NIL
HWM-Alta Straight
1953 Albert Scherrer CH NIL (Retired from F.1. b: 1908 – d: 1986)
1953 Duncan Hamilton GB NIL (Sports car racing/24 Hours Le Mans. After he retired from racing in 1958, he concentrated on his garage business. b: 1920 – d: 1994.)
1953 Jack Fairman GB NIL (Connaught)
1953 John Fitch GB NIL (Maserati)
1953 Lance Macklin GB NIL
1953 Paul Frere B NIL (Gordini)
1953 Peter Collins GB NIL (Vanwall)
1953 Yves Giraud-Cabantous F NIL (Retired from F.1. b: 1904 – d: 1973)
HWM-Alta Straight
1954 Lance Macklin GB NIL (Maserati)
HWM-Alta Straight
1955 Ted Whiteaway GB NIL (Retired from F.1. b: 1928 – d: 1995.)

HONDA RACING

TEAM: HONDA RACING
NATIONALITY: JAP
INCEPTION: 1964-1968/2006-2008
COMMENT: Honda’s involvement in F1 began with the 1963 season; their withdrawal in 1968 was precipitated by the death of Honda driver Jo Schlesser during the 1968 French Grand Prix. They returned in 1983 as an engine supplier, a role that ended in 1992. They returned again in 2000, providing engines for British American Racing (BAR), and by 2005 BAR had been bought out and Honda Racing was re-established. It was announced on December 5, 2008 that Honda would be exiting Formula One with immediate effect due to the current economic crisis and are looking to sell the team. After Honda’s demise, the team was reputed to have had the worst team management with one of the largest budgets – everything squandered unnecessarily.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Honda (NIL 9th)
1964 Ronnie Bucknum USA NIL
Honda (11 pts. 6th)
1965 Richie Ginther USA 11 pts. (7th) (Cooper Car Company for half a season)
1965 Ronnie Bucknum USA 2 pts. (14th)
Honda (3 pts. 11th)
1966 Richie Ginther USA 5 pts. (11th) (Anglo American Racers Eagle-Weslake)
1966 Ronnie Bucknum USA NIL (USAC Championship Car series)
Honda (20 pts. 4th)
1967 John Surtees GB 20 pts. (4th)
Honda (14 pts. 7th)
1968 John Surtees GB 12 pts. (7th) (Owen Racing Organisation BRM)
1968 Jo Schlesser F NIL (Fatefully, after only two laps, the car slid wide at the Six Frères corner and crashed sideways into a bank. The magnesium-bodied Honda and 58 laps worth of fuel ignited instantly, leaving Schlesser no chance of survival. As a result, Honda withdrew from Formula One at the end of the 1968 season. A friend of Jo Schlesser’s, future Formula One constuctor Guy Ligier always gave his cars type numbers beginning with ‘JS’ as a tribute to Schlesser. His nephew Jean-Louis Schlesser later became a successful racing driver, who started one Formula One grand prix and won the Paris Dakar.
1968 David Hobbs GB NIL (Penske-White Racing McLaren-Cosworth)
1968 Joakim Bonnier S 3 pts. (22nd) (Ecurie Bonnier-Cosworth)

From 1969-2005, Honda supplies engines, but does not compete as a constructor.

Lucky Strike Honda (86 pts. 4th)
2006 Rubens Barrichello BR 30 pts. (7th)
2006 Jenson Button GB
Honda (6 pts. 8th)
2007 Jenson Button GB 6 pts.
2007 Rubens Barrichello BR NIL
Honda (14 pts. 9th)
2008 Jenson Button GB 3 pts. (18th)
2008 Rubens Barrichello BR 11 pts. (14th)

“The Honda-owned Formula One team competed for a decade from 1999 to 2008 and every single one of those years, bar one, was a disaster. Over the course of four management regimes there was only one season in which the team didn’t disgrace itself. And when it finally hired a good set of managers the Honda directors in Tokyo seemingly couldn’t cope with sporting success. So much so that they sacked the manager who had made the team a serious contender for the first time. The Formula One team was lavishly funded from the start by British American Tobacco (BAT), even though it continually failed. Since then, Honda has spent another US$1.5 billion, failing miserably. Nowhere was that more reflected than the team’s annual media lunch, held at the world famous and hideously expensive, Le Manoir Aux Quat restauarnt, a few miles from the team’s English HQ in rural Northamptonshire. Raymond Blanc, arguably the world’s finest chef, cooks the meals personally at his restaurant and charges handsomely for the privilege. The 30 odd journalists, and as many team personnel, that gathered every November to feed at Honda’s trough always feasted in style. Over the years, the team spent US$500,000 on this one annual event alone. An insider estimates that the team spent a total of US$10 million, in its lifetime, simply entertaining journalists.”

-David Cushnan