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.

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MAKI

TEAM: MAKI
NATIONALITY: JAP
INCEPTION: 1974-1976
COMMENT: Maki was a Formula One constructor from Japan, fully named as Maki Engineering. A small team founded by Kenji Mimura, their entry into the 1974 Formula One World Championship was Japan’s first since Honda had withdrawn at the end of the 1968 season. They first entered the 1974 British Grand Prix, with New Zealand driver Howden Ganley driving a single Maki F101, powered by the ubiquitous Cosworth DFV V8 engine. He failed to qualify, and then badly injured his legs at the following German Grand Prix. The team then withdrew to Japan to repair and modify the car. That seemed to be it, but then the small team re-emerged at the 1975 Dutch Grand Prix, with successful domestic driver Hiroshi Fushida driving the updated Maki F101C, and sponsorship from Citizen Watches. With only 25 entrants, he was guaranteed a starting place, but the DFV broke in practice and he was unable to start as the team had no spares. They missed the French Grand Prix, and then Fushida failed to qualify for the British Grand Prix. For the German Grand Prix, British club driver Tony Trimmer replaced Fushida, but was unable to qualify either there, or for the Austrian Grand Prix. The Maki made its first and only race start in the non-championship Swiss Grand Prix, where Trimmer finished last of the finishers in 13th place, six laps behind the winner Clay Regazzoni’s Ferrari. The team disappeared once again, only returning to Formula One once – for the 1976 season-closing Japanese Grand Prix. With Trimmer in the seat, the upgraded F102A once again failed to make the grid, and the team were never seen in Formula One again.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Maki-Cosworth (NIL)
1974 Howden Ganley NZ NIL (Ganley’s Tiga team had plans to compete in Formula One in 1978, with the Finnish driver Mikko Kozarowitzky, but the project didn’t succeed due to a lack of funding.)
Maki-Cosworth (NIL)
1975 Hiroshi Fushida JAP NIL (Won the Hardie Ferodo 1000)
1975 Tony Trimmer GB NIL
Maki-Cosworth (NIL)
1976 Tony Trimmer GB NIL (He entered 6 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix with uncompetitive teams, firstly Maki for 4 races in 1975 and 1976, resulting in 4 failures to qualify. He then entered the 1977 British Grand Prix (failed to pre-qualify) and the 1978 British Grand Prix (failed to qualify), with the Melchester Racing Team, driving a Surtees TS19 and a McLaren M23 respectively. However, also driving the Melchester McLaren, he finished a superb 3rd in the rain-soaked 1978 BRDC International Trophy non-Championship race at Silverstone, coming home ahead of many of the greats of Formula One. That year he won the British Aurora F1 Championship.)

MARCH RACING

TEAM: MARCH RACING
NATIONALITY: GB/JAP
INCEPTION: 1970 -1992
COMMENT: March Engineering was a Formula One constructor and manufacturer of customer racing cars from Britain. Although only moderately successful in Grand Prix competition, March racing cars enjoyed much better achievement in other categories of competition including Formula 2, Formula 3, IndyCar and IMSA GTP sportscar racing.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
March-Cosworth (3rd 43 pts.)
1970 Chris Amon NZ 8th (23 pts.) (Matra)
1970 Jo Siffert CH NIL (Yardley-BRM)
STP March-Cosworth (4th 44 pts.)
1971 Ronnie Peterson S 2nd (33 pts.)
1971 Alex Soler-Roig E NIL (BRM)
1971 Andrea de Adamich I NIL (Surtees-Cosworth)
1971 Nanni Galli I NIL (Martini Racing Tecno)
1971 Niki Lauda A NIL
1971 Jean-Pierre Jarier F NIL
1971 Mike Beuttler GB NIL
March-Cosworth (6th 15 pts.)
1972 Ronnie Peterson S 9th (12 pts.)
1972 Niki Lauda A NIL (Marlboro-BRM)
1973 Mike Beuttler GB NIL
March-Cosworth (5th 14 pts.)
1973 Jean-Pierre Jarier F NIL (Shadow-Ford)
1973 Henri Pescarolo F NIL (ISO Marlboro Williams-Cosworth)

1973 Roger Williamson GB NIL (During the Dutch G.P., Williamson suffered a sudden tire deflation, which pitched his car into the barriers at high speed and catapulted it 300 yards across the track, eventually coming to rest upside down against the barriers on the other side, during which his petrol tank had ignited while being scraped along the track. A fire began to take hold and Williamson was unable to extricate himself.
Fellow driver and friend David Purley, although not a teammate of Williamson’s, abandoned his own race in a desperate and valiant attempt to rescue him. Williamson had not been seriously injured by the impact, and was heard shouting to Purley to get him out of the car as Purley tried in vain to turn the car upright. Initially the commentators on Dutch TV, race control and some of the other drivers participating in the race assumed that it was Purley’s car that had crashed and that the driver had escaped unharmed. As a result the race continued at full pace while Purley desperately tried to save the life of his friend.
Beta March-Cosworth (16th 5 pts.)
1974 Hans-Joachim Stuck D 16th (5 pts.)
1974 Vittorio Brambilla I 18th (1 pt.)
1974 Howden Ganley NZ NIL (Ganley’s Tiga team had plans to compete in Formula One in 1978, with the Finnish driver Mikko Kozarowitzky, but the project didn’t succeed due to a lack of funding.)
1974 Reine Wisell S NIL (Retired from F1)
Lavazza March-Cosworth (8th 7.5 pts.)
1975 Lella Lombardi I 21st (0.5 pts.) (RAM Brabham-Cosworth)
1975 Vittorio Brambilla I 11th (6.5 pts.)
1975 Hans-Joachim Stuck D NIL
Beta March-Cosworth (7th 19 pts.)
1976 Vittorio Brambilla I 19th (1 pt.) (Beta Surtees-Cosworth)
1976 Ronnie Peterson S NIL (Elf Tyrrell-Cosworth)
1976 Hans-Joachim Stuck D 13th (8 pts.)
Rothamans International March-Cosworth (NIL)
1977 Ian Scheckter RSA NIL (Securing enough funds for a full season with the March works F1 team in 1977, he turned in some poor performances, spelling the end of his F1 career. Scheckter’s final grand prix would have been the 1977 Japanese Grand Prix but he detained and then expelled from Japan due to only having a tourist visa in his South African passport and Japanese sensitivities about the apartheid regime. He retired from F.1.)
1977 Alex Ribeiro BR NIL (Fittipaldi-Cosworth)
1977 Hans-Joachim Stuck D 11th (12 pts.) (Martini Racing Brabham-Alfa Romeo)
1977 Brian Henton GB NIL (Toleman-Cosworth)
Rothmans International March-Cosworth (NIL)
1981 Eliseo Salazar CHI NIL (Ensign-Cosworth mid-season)
1981 Derek Daly GB NIL (Theodore Racing-Ford)
Rothmans International March-Cosworth (NIL)
1982 Raul Boesel COL NIL (Gitanes Ligier-Cosworth)
1982 Jochen Mass D NIL (Sports Cars. Now he is a commentator for German RTL.)
1982 Rupert Keegan GB NIL (After F1, Keegan raced in the United States in CART, and also in endurance racing. After his retirement, he pursued business interests and also worked as a racing instructor.)
1982 Emilio de Villota E NIL (Sports Cars. He also owns a racing school in Spain.)

LEYTON-HOUSE
Leyton House March-Judd (13th 1 pt.)
1987 Ivan Capelli I 19th (1 pt.)
Leyton House March-Judd (6th 22 pts.)
1988 Ivan Capelli I 7th (17 pts.)
1988 Mauricio Gugelmin
Leyton House March-Judd (14th 4 pts.)
1989 Ivan Capelli I NIL
1989 Mauricio Gugelmin BR 16th (4 pts.)
Leyton House March-Judd (7th 7 pts.)
1990 Ivan Capelli I 10th (6 pts.) In 1992, Capelli’s plans were laced with hope of a crowning glory. Arguably he had been too loyal to March and Leyton House, choosing to remain with them and their family atmosphere despite offers from more established teams and the inconsistent equipment he was receiving. Finally, however, he had made the break, and had signed for a top team, an Italian driving a Ferrari. The Scuderia had gone through a tough time in 1991, but with a new car, the FA92, expectations were high. Unfortunately, the new car was a disaster and before the season began Capelli was showing his disappointment. A driver who enjoyed the convivial atmosphere of a family-type team, he struggled to integrate with the bureaucratic structure of early 90s Ferrari. Losing motivation, the team in turn lost confidence in him and his teammate Jean Alesi gained the upper hand. While Capelli occasionally performed adequately, the season was a disaster punctuated with some
embarrassing crashes. Capelli was sacked before the season’s end.
Mauricio Gugelmin BR 18th (1 pt.)
Leyton House March-Judd (12th 1 pt.)
1991 Mauricio Gugelmin BR NIL (Sasol Jordan-Yamaha)

March-Ilmor (9th 3 pts.)
1992 Paul Belmondo F NIL (Pacific GP-Ilmor)
1992 Karl Wendlinger A 12th (3 pts.) (Sauber)
1992 Emanuele Naspetti I NIL (Sasol Jordan-Hart)
1992 Jan Lammers NL NIL (He was signed for the team in 1993 as well,
but they went bankrupt before the season started. Joined the British Touring Car Championship/FIA Sportscar Championship/A1 Grand Prix.)

MARTINI RACING

TEAM: MARTINI
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1978-1978
COMMENT: Martini Cars is a constructor of Formula racing cars from France, founded by Tico Martini in 1965, when Martini and partner Bill Knight founded the Winfield Racing School at the Magny-Cours circuit. Martini’s first car was the MW3, a Formula 3 car built in 1968. Although better known for their successful efforts in F3, Formula Renault and other lower formulae during the 1970s and 1980s, they are also known for having taken part in eight rounds of the 1978 Formula One season with the single MK23 chassis, giving René Arnoux (later a driver for Renault and Ferrari) his debut in Formula 1.With Reynard, Ralt and Dallara crowding out the F3 market in the late 1980s, Martini reduced their customer program, keeping a stubborn presence in the French F3 championship during the 1990s, until Tico Martini finally sold the team to Guy Ligier in 2004.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Martini-Cosworth (NIL)
1978 René Arnoux F NIL (Durex Surtees-Cosworth)

MASERATI

TEAM: MASERATI
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1950-1960
COMMENT:

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Maserati
1950 Birabongse Bhanuban THI 8th (5 pts.)
1950 Reg Parnell GB 9th (4 pts.) (Ferrari)
1950 Louis Chiron MC 10th (4 pts.)
1950 Felice Bonetto I 19th (2 pts.) (Alfa-Romeo)
1950 Alfredo Pian I NIL (He entered the 1950 Monaco GP, but an accident threw him from the car, breaking his legs. He never again entered a World Championship F.1. event.)
1950 Antonio Branca CH NIL
1950 Brian Shawe-Taylor GB NIL (Ferrari)
1950 David Hampshire GB NIL (Non-Championship F.1. races before retiring.)
1950 David Murray GB NIL
1950 Emmanuel de Graffenried CH NIL (Alfa-Romeo)
1950 Franco Rol I NIL (OSCA)
1950 Gianfranco Comotti I NIL (Ferrari)
1950 Joe Fry GB NIL (Tragically, Fry was killed at the wheel of the Freikaiserwagen at the 1950 Blandford hillclimb, less than two months after driving a Maserati 4CL in the 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.)
1950 Jose Froilan Gonzalez ARG NIL (Talbot-Lago)
1950 Nello Pagani I NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1950 Paul Pietsch D NIL (Alfa-Romeo)
1950 Peter Walker GB NIL (BRM)
1950 T. Cuth Harrison GB NIL (Retired from F.1.)
Maserati
1951 Antonio Branca CH NIL (Hillclimbing races)
1951 Birabongse Bhanuban THI NIL (Gordini)
1951 David Murray GB NIL (Cooper-Bristol)
1951 Louis Chiron MC NIL (Talbot-Lago)
1951 Francisco Godia E NIL (Paco Godia was the first Spanish driver to race in F.1.)
1951 Harry Schell USA NIL
1951 John James GB NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1951 Juan Jover E NIL (With Scuderia Pegaso he competed in Endurance Racing but his career ended after serious injuries before the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans. Jover died aged 56 after a road accident.)
1951 Onofre Marimon ARG NIL
1951 Philip Fotheringham-Parker NIL (24 Hours of Le Mans/Rallying)
Maserati
1952 Jose Froilan Gonzalez ARG 9th (6.5 pts.)
1952 Felice Bonetto I 16th (2 pts.) Bonetto had a fatal accident while driving a Lancia on the Carrera Panamericana, that he was leading, when he left the road after jumping uneven pavement before colliding with a lamp-post. He was 2nd at the Mille Miglia (1949) and won the 1952 Targa Florio.
1952 Franco Rol I NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1952 Harry Schell USA NIL (Gordini)
1952 Alberto Crespo ARG NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1952 Eitel Cantoni URG NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1952 Emmanuel de Graffenried NIL
1952 Francisco Landi BR NIL
1952 Gino Bianco BR NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1952 Jan Flinterman NL NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1952 Philippe Etancelin F NIL (In 1953 the government of France awarded him the Legion of Honor in recognition of his contribution to the sport of automobile racing that spanned four decades. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1981.)
Maserati
1953 Juan Manuel Fangio ARG 2nd (28 pts.)
1953 Jose Froilan Gonzalez ARG 6th (13 pts.) (Ferrari)
1953 Emmanuel de Graffenried 8th (7 pts.)
1953 Felice Bonetto I 9th (6.5 pts.)
1953 Onofre Marimon ARG 11th (4 pts.)
1953 Hermann Lang D 17th (2 pts.) (Mercedes-Benz)
1953 Oscar Galvez ARG 17th (2 pts.) He was a very popular driver, and an active entrant of the Turismo Carretera series. The Buenos Aires circuit was renamed in honour of him after his death in 1989.
1953 Sergio Mantovani I NIL
1953 Francisco Landi BR NIL
1953 Luigi Musso I NIL
Maserati
1954 Luigi Musso I 8th (6 pts.)
1954 Onofre Marimon ARG 13th (4.5 pts.) (Marimón was killed on July 31,
1954 during practice for the 1954 German Grand Prix, becoming the first driver to be fatally injured at a World Championship Grand Prix.)
1954 Stirling Moss GB 13th (4.5 pts.) (Mercedes-Benz)
1954 Sergio Montovani I 16th (4 pts.)
1954 Paco Godia E NIL
1954 Harry Schell USA NIL (Ferrari)
1954 Emmanuel de Graffenried NIL
1954 Juan Manuel Fangio ARG (Won for Maserati at Argentina and Belgium but switched to Mercedes-Benz where he became the 1954 World Champion.)
1954 Carlos Menditeguy ARG NIL
1954 Roberto Mieres ARG 11th (6 pts.)
1954 Ottorino Volenterio CH NIL
Maserati
1955 Roberto Mieres ARG 8th (7 pts.) (Retired from F.1.)
1955 Jean Behra F 9th (6 pts.)
1955 Luigi Musso I 10th (6 pts.) (Ferrari)
1955 Cesare Perdisa I 18th (2 pts.)
1955 Carlos Menditeguy ARG 19th (1 pt.)
1955 Peter Walker GB NIL (Connaught-Alta)
1955 Alfredo Uria URG NIL
1955 Andre Simon F NIL (Shared the year wtih Daimler Benz.)
1955 Clemar Bucci ARG NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1955 Horace Gould GB NIL
1955 John Fitch USA NIL (In the course of a driving career which spanned 18 years, Fitch won such notable sports car races as the 1951 Argentine Grand Prix, 1955 Mille Miglia (production car class), Dunrod Tourist Trophy, and Sebring endurance race as well as numerous lesser races. he also competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times, finishing as high as third. Fitch also served as the first manager for Chevrolet’s Corvette racing team, and the first general manager of the Lime Rock Park race track. He has designed his own race cars.In addition, Fitch emulated his ancestor, John Fitch who invented the steamship, by inventing many safety innovations for the race track and the highway. He is also a motor journalist.
1955 Johnny Claes B NIL
1955 Lance Macklin GB NIL (In the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans he was caught up in the accident which killed Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators when he made a defensive move to avoid hitting Mike Hawthorn, and Levegh’s car clipped his. Although Macklin’s car crashed, he was uninjured. Following a later incident in the Tourist Trophy at Dundrod, in which Macklin crashed his Austin-Healey 100S avoiding an accident in which Jim Mayers and William T Smith were killed, Macklin retired from motor sport.)
1955 Louis Rosier F NIL
1955 Peter Collins GB NIL (Ferrari)
1955 Roy Salvadori GB NIL
1955 Sergio Mantovani I NIL (After he lost a leg in a crash during practice for the Valentino Grand Prix in 1955, Mantovani retired and became involved with the Italian Sporting Commission.)
1955 Luigi Piotti I NIL
Maserati
1956 Stirling Moss GB 2nd (27 pts.)
1956 Jean Behra F 4th (22 pts.)
1956 Paco Godia E 9th (6 pts.)
1956 Cesare Perdisa I 16th (3 pts.) (Ferrari)
1956 Harry Schell USA 17th (3 pts.)25th (1.5 pts.)
1956 Francisco Bandi BR 25th (1.5 pts.)
1956 Gerino Gerini I 25th (1.5 pts.)
1956 Jose Froilan Gonzalez ARG NIL (Vandervell Vanwall)
1956 Louis Chiron MC NIL
1956 Alfredo Uria URG NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1956 Andre Simon F NIL (Split the season with Gordini.)
1956 Carlos Menditeguy ARG NIL
1956 Horace Gould GB 19th (2 pts.)
1956 Johnny Claes B NIL (Ferrari)
1956 Louis Rosier F NIL (Louis Rosier died of injuries he sustained in a crash at the Montlhéry track, south of Paris, France, on 7 October 1956.)
1956 Roy Salvadori GB NIL (Owen Racing BRM)
1956 Bruce Halford GB NIL
1956 Emmanuel de Graffenried NIL (First driver to win the British G.P. After retirement, he concentrated on managing his car dealerships and acting as a corporate ambassador for Phillip Morris’s Marlboro cigarette brand and as a guest at vintage racing events. He died in 2007 at 84 years old.)
1956 Francisco Landi BR 25th (1.5 pts.) (Retired from F.1.)
1956 Jack Brabham AUS NIL (Cooper-Climax)
1956 Luigi Piotti I NIL
1956 Jo Bonnier S NIL
1956 Luigi Villoresi I NIL (Villoresi retired from Grand Prix racing in
1957 after 31 Formula One championship starts without a victory but made it to the podium eight times while scoring a total of 49 championship points. Villoresi continued rally racing and won the Acropolis Rally in Greece in 1958 before retiring to a home in Modena. Luigi Villoresi died in 1997 at the age of eighty-eight.)
1956 Mike Hawthorn GB 12th (4 pts.) (BRM/Vanwall)
1956 Oscar Gonzalez ARG NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1956 Ottorino Volenterio CH NIL
1956 Piero Taruffi I NIL (Vanwall mid-season. On retirement, he opened his own automotive museum in Bagnoregio, a small town between Viterbo and Orvieto in Central Italy. It has vintage cars and motorbikes of his era. He died in 1988 at the age of 82.)
1956 Roy Salvadori GB NIL (Owen Racing BRM)
1956 Umberto Maglioli I NIL (Porsche)
Maserati
1957 Juan Manuel Fangio ARG WORLD CHAMPION (40 pts.) His record of five World Championship titles stood for 45 years until German driver Michael Schumacher took his sixth title in 2003. Schumacher said, “Fangio is on a level much higher than I see myself. What he did stands alone and what we have achieved is also unique. I have such respect for what he achieved. You can’t take a personality like Fangio and compare him with what has happened today. There is not even the slightest comparison.” In his home country, Argentina, Fangio is revered as one of the greatest sportsmen the nation has ever produced. Argentines often referred to him as The Maestro.
1957 Stirling Moss GB 2nd (25 pts.) (Switched to Vanwall after the first race in ‘57.)
1957 Masten Gregory USA 6th (10 pts.)
1957 Jean Behra F 11th (6 pts.)
1957 Carlos Menditeguy ARG 14th (4 pts.)
1957 Giorgio Scarlatti I 20th (1 pt.)
1957 Paco Godia E NIL
1957 Harry Schell USA NIL
1957 Andre Simon F NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1957 Horace Gould GB NIL
1957 Bruce Halford GB NIL (Lotus-Climax in 1960)
1957 Francisco Godia E NIL
1957 Hans Hermann D NIL
1957 Ivor Bueb GB NIL (Connaught-Alta)
1957 Jo Bonnier S NIL
1957 Luigi Piotti I NIL (OSCA)
1957 Ottorino Volenterio CH NIL (Retired from F.1. DIed in 2003 at the age of 86.)
Maserati
1958 Paco Godia E NIL (Retired from F.1.) (Retired from F.1. He died in 1989.)
1958 Harry Schell USA 18th (1 pt.) (Owen Racing BRM towards the beginning of ‘58.)
1958 Juan Manuel Fangio ARG 14th (7 pts.) After his series of back-to-back championships he retired in 1958, following the French Grand Prix. Such was the respect for Fangio, that during that final race, race leader Hawthorn had lapped Fangio and as Hawthorn was about to cross the line, he braked and allowed Fangio through so he could complete the 50-lap distance in his final race. He would cross the line over two
minutes down on Hawthorn. He won 24 World Championship Grands Prix from 51 starts – a winning percentage of 47.06%, the best winning percentage in the sport’s history. He was appointed President of Mercedes-Benz Argentina in 1974, and its Honorary President for Life in 1987. Cuban rebels kidnapped him on February 23, 1958, but he was later released, and remained a good friend of his captors afterwards. In 1990, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. Juan Manuel Fangio died in Buenos Aires in 1995, at the age of 84. He was buried in his home town of Balcarce in Argentina.
1958 Jean Behra F 15th (5 pts.) (Switched to BRM after the first race of ‘58.)
1958 Jo Bonnier S 18th (3 pts.) (Owen Racing BRM)
1958 Maurice Trintignant F 19th (2 pts.)
1958 Phil Hill USA 19th (2 pts., but drove for Ferrari, claiming 10th position for ‘58.)
1958 Carlos Menditeguy ARG NIL (Retired from F.1. but returned in 1960 to drive for Maserati.)
1958 Horace Gould GB NIL
1958 Andre Testut MC NIL
1958 Carroll Shelby USA NIL (David Brown Aston-Martin)
1958 Cliff Allison GB NIL (Ferrari)
1958 Francisco Godia E NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1958 Gerino Gerini I NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1958 Giorgio Scarlatti I NIL
1958 Giulio Cabianca I NIL
1958 Hans Hermann D NIL (Cooper-Maserati)
1958 Ken Kavanagh AUS NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1958 Louis Chiron MC NIL (After a remarkable 35 years in racing, on his retirement Chiron still remained active as an executive with the organization running the Monaco Grand Prix who honored him with a statue erected along the Grand Prix racecourse and named one of the track’s curves for him. Louis Chiron held the most podiums in Bugatti cars, and the 21st Century Bugatti company remembered him with the
Bugatti 18/3 Chiron named in his honor. Louis Chiron is also known for being the oldest driver who has ever taken part in a Formula One Grand Prix. In his last F1 race, the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, he was 58 years old.)
1958 Luigi Taramazzo I NIL (retired from F.1. Died in 2004 at the age of 72.)
1958 Maria-Teresa de Filippis I NIL (Behra-Porsche RSK)
1958 Masten Gregory USA NIL (Cooper-Climax)
1958 Troy Ruttman USA NIL (Watson-Offenhauser)
1958 Wolfgang Seidel D NIL (Cooper-Climax)
Maserati
1959 Andre Testut MC NIL (Retired from F.1.)
1959 Giorgio Scarlatti I NIL (Switched to Cooper mid-season)
1959 Giulio Cabianca I NIL (Cooper-Ferrari)
1959 Asdrubal Fontes Bayardo URG NIL (Retired from F.1. In the 1960s he was a concessionaire for General Motors in Pan de Azucar, San Carlos and Maldonado, and was a director on the board of a company producing Opel-based pick-up trucks in Pan de Azucar under the name of “Marina”. He later worked for a production agency associated with BSE (Banco de Seguros del Estado), a large Uruguayan bank corporation. Azdrúbal Fontes Bayardo died peacefully at his home in Montevideo in July 2006, age 84.)
1959 Phil Cade USA NIL (SCCA/Hillclimb. He died at 85 in 2001.)
Maserati
1960 Antonio Creus E NIL (Retired from F.1. Died in 1996 at the age of 72.)
1960 Bob Drake USA NIL (Retired)
1960 Estefano Nasif ARG NIL (Retired)
1960 Ettore Chimeri VEN NIL (In 1960, Chimeri was killed while practicing for the Gran Premio Libertad sports car race at the Camp Freedom military airfield near Havana. His Ferrari crashed through barriers and plunged 150 feet into a ravine. Chimeri survived and was flown to hospital by helicopter, but he died there later that day.)
1960 Gino Munaron I NIL (Switched to Cooper-Ferrari the same year.)
1960 Giorgio Scarlatti I NIL (Switched to Cooper-Ferrari/Cooper-Maserati during 1960.)
1960 Horace Gould GB NIL (Retired from F.1. Died in 1968 at the age of 50.)

Number of Drivers’ Championships: 1
Number of Constructors’Championships: 1

McGUIRE RACING

TEAM: McGUIRE RACING
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1977-1977
COMMENT:

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
McGuire-Cosworth (NIL)
1977 Brian McGuire AUS NIL (For the 1977 race, he modified his Williams FW04 and renamed it the McGuire BM1, but failed to pre-qualify. McGuire was killed practicing this car during a Shellsport G8 Championship race at Brands Hatch later that year.)

McLAREN

TEAM: McLAREN
NATIONALITY: AUS/GB
INCEPTION: 1966
COMMENT: McLaren is a Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, UK. Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and Canadian-American Challenge Cup. The team is one of the most successful teams in Formula One, having won 162 races, 12 Drivers’ Championships and 8 Constructors’ Championships. The team were the first to design a car using a carbon fibre monocoque, which is now ubiquitous in its use by all teams. The current team was formed by the merger of Bruce McLaren Motor Racing with Ron Dennis’s Project Four Racing in 1981. Shortly after the merger, Dennis organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team. McLaren is part of McLaren Racing, a member of the McLaren Group. Engines are supplied by McLaren shareholder Mercedes-Benz through Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines. Dennis was team principal from the 1981 merger until March 2009, when he agreed to transfer his position to longtime McLaren employee Martin Whitmarsh. Dennis will continue to work within the McLaren Group.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
McLaren-Serenissma/Ford (7th 3 pts.)
1966 Bruce McLaren NZ 16th (3 pts.)
McLaren-BRM (8th 1 pt.)
1967 Bruce McLaren NZ 14th (3 pts.)
McLaren-BRM/Ford (2nd 51 pts.)
1968 Denny Hulme NZ 3rd (49 pts.)
1968 Bruce McLaren NZ 5th (22 pts.)
McLaren-Ford (4th 40 pts.)
1969 Bruce McLaren NZ 3rd (26 pts.)
1969 Denny Hulme NZ 6th (20 pts.)
1969 Vic Elford GB 20th (3 pts.) (Yardley-BRM)
1969 Derek Bell GB 22nd (1 pt.) (Brabham-Cosworth)
1969 Basil van Rooyen RSA NIL (Formula Atlatnic)
Yardley McLaren-Ford (4th 35 pts.)
1970 Denny Hulme NZ 4th (38 pts.)
1970 Bruce McLaren NZ 14th (6 pts.) Between 1967 and 1972 (and five constructors’ championships), and have won three Indianapolis 500 races, as well as 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring. Bruce McLaren died (aged 32) when his Can-Am car crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote corner at Goodwood Circuit on June 2 1970 in England. He had been testing his new M8D when the rear body work came adrift at speed. The loss of aerodynamic downforce destabilized the car, which spun, left the track and hit a bunker used as a flag station.
1970 Peter Gethin GB 23rd (1 pt.)
1970 Dan Gurney USA 24th (1 pt.) Among American drivers, his 86 Grand Prix starts ranks third, and his total of four GP wins is second only to Mario Andretti. Perhaps the greatest tribute to Gurney’s driving ability, however, was paid by the father of Scottish World Champion Jim Clark when he took Gurney aside at his son’s funeral in 1968 and told Gurney that he was the only driver Clark had ever feared on the track.
1970 Andrea de Adamich I NIL (STP March-Alfa Romeo)
1970 Nanni Galli I NIL (STP March-Alfa Romeo)
1970 John Surtees GB 18th (3 pts.) (Surtees-Cosworth)
1970 Jo Bonnier S NIL
Yardley/Gulf McLaren-Ford (10th 6 pts.)
1971 Denny Hulme NZ 13th (9 pts.)
1971 Peter Gethin GB 13th (9 pts.)
1971 Jackie Oliver GB 20th (2 pts.) (Marlboro BRM)
1971 Helmut Marko A NIL (Marlboro-BRM)
1971 Jo Bonnier S NIL (He retired from F.1., but he still managed to snatch victories in the minor 1000 km of Barcelona at Montjuïc in 1971 (with Ronnie Peterson), and the 4 Hours of Le Mans in 1972 (with Hughes de Fierlandt). By then, he had taken to managing his team, entering several cars in World Sportscar Championship events, and taking a backseat to driving. Nevertheless he was involved in an accident in Le Mans in 1972 when his Lola-Cosworth T280 collided with a Ferrari Daytona driven by a Swiss amateur driver Florian Vetsch. His car was catapulted into the trees and he was killed.)
Yardley/Gulf McLaren-Ford (3rd 47 pts.)
1972 Denny Hulme NZ 3rd (39 pts.)
1972 Peter Revson USA 5th (23 pts.)
1972 Brian Redman GB 14th (4 pts.) (Marlboro-BRM)
1972 Jody Scheckter RSA NIL
Yardley McLaren-Ford (3rd 58 pts.)
1973 Denny Hulme NZ 6th (26 pts.)
1973 Peter Revson USA 5th (38 pts.) (UOP Shadow-Cosworth)
1973 Jody Scheckter RSA NIL (Elf Tyrrell-Cosworth)
1973 Jacky Ickx B 9th (12 pts.) (ISO Marlboro Williams-Ford)
Marlboro Team Texaco/Yardley McLaren-Ford (1st 73 pts.)
1974 Emerson Fittipaldi BR WORLD CHAMPION (55 pts.)
1974 Denny Hulme NZ 7th (20 pts.) Retired from F.1. After leaving the sport, Hulme led the GPDA (Grand Prix Drivers’ Association) for a brief period, but the cut and thrust nature of the post was ill-suited to his gentlemanly nature and he did not fill the post for very long. He then retired to New Zealand, returning to touring cars in the early 1980s. A favourite event of Hulme’s was the Bathurst 1000, held at the famous Mount Panorama track in Australia. In the 1992 event he was driving a semi-works supported BMW M3 when after complaining over the car to pits radio of blurred vision Hulme suffered a massive heart attack at the wheel whilst driving along the 170 mph (270 km/h) Conrod Straight. After veering into the wall on the right side of the track, he managed to bring the car to a relatively controlled stop sliding against the safety railing and concrete wall. When marshals reached the scene they found Hulme still strapped in, dead. Before 1960 he was known for his preference for driving barefoot and it was not until 1960 that people convinced him to start racing with shoes on. His nickname at the time was “The Barefoot Boy From Te Puke”. His nickname in his later racing life was “The Bear” due to the fact he could be irascible and even rude with those who rubbed him up the wrong way.
1974 Mike Hailwood GB 11th (12 pts.) In 1978, after an 11 year hiatus from motorcycling, Hailwood performed a now legendary comeback at the Isle of Man TT. Few observers believed the 38 year old would be competitive after such a long absence. Riding on a Ducati 900SS, he was not only competitive, but managed a hugely popular win. He raced the following year at the Isle of Man TT before retiring for good at the age of 39. He retired with 76 Grand Prix victories, 14 Isle of Man TT wins and 9 World Championships. In 1978, after an 11 year hiatus from motorcycling, Hailwood performed a now legendary comeback at the Isle of Man TT. Few observers believed the 38 year old would be competitive after such a long absence. Riding on a Ducati 900SS, he was not only competitive, but managed a hugely popular win. He raced the following year at the Isle of Man TT before retiring for good at the age of 39. He retired with 76 Grand Prix victories, 14 Isle of Man TT wins and 9 World Championships.
1974 Jochen Mass D NIL
1974 David Hobbs GB NIL (U.S. TV network commentator)
1974 Dave Charlton GB NIL
Marlboro Team Texaco/Lucky Strike McLaren-Ford (3rd 63 pts.)
1975 Emerson Fittipaldi BR 2nd (45 pts.) (Copersaucer-Fittipaldi)
1975 Jochen Mass D 8th (20 pts.)
1975 Dave Charlton GB NIL (Retired from F.1. Returns to South Africa.)
Marlboro McLaren-Ford (2nd 75 pts.)
1976 James Hunt GB WORLD CHAMPION (69 pts.)
1976 Jochen Mass D 9th (19 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-Ford (3rd 60 pts.)
1977 James Hunt GB 5th (40 pts.)
1977 Jochen Mass D 6th (25 pts.) (ATS)
1977 Gilles Villeneuve CAN NIL (Ferrari)
1977 Bruno Giacomelli I NIL
1977 Brett Lunger USA NIL (Ensign)
1977 Emilio de Villota E NIL
Marlboro/Chesterfield McLaren-Ford (8th 15 pts.)
1978 James Hunt GB 13th (8 pts.) (Olympic Cameras Wolf-Ford)
1978 Patrick Tambay F 14th (8 pts.)
1978 Bruno Giacomelli I NIL (Alfa-Romeo)
1978 Nelson Piquet BR NIL (Parmalat Brabham-Alfa Romeo)
1978 Emilio de Villota I NIL (Williams-Cosworth)
1978 Tony Trimmer GB NIL (Non-Championship racing/Aurora F1 Championship)
Marlboro/Lowenbrau McLaren-Ford (7th 15 pts.)
1979 John Watson GB 9th (15 pts.)
1979 Patrick Tambay F NIL (Theodore-Cosworth)
Marlboro McLaren-Ford (8th 11 pts.)
1980 John Watson GB 11th (6 pts.)
1980 Alain Prost F 16th (5 pts.) (Elf Renault)
1980 Stephen South GB NIL (His career was abruptly ended later that year when he suffered the amputation of part of one leg after a CanAm accident. In the 1990s he was reported to be happily involved in business in London, and to have completely lost interest in motorsport. In 2008 he was seen at a handful of historic motorsport meetings.)
Marlboro McLaren International-Ford (6th 28 pts.)
1981 John Watson GB 6th (27 pts.)
1981 Andrea de Cesaris I 18th (1 pt.) (Marlboro Alfa-Romeo)
Marlboro McLaren-Ford (2nd 69 pts.)
1982 John Watson GB 3rd (39 pts.)
1982 Niki Lauda A 5th (30 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-TAG Porsche (5th 43 pts.)
1983 John Watson GB 6th (22 pts.)
1983 Niki Lauda A 10th (12 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-TAG Porsche (1st 143 pts.)
1984 Niki Lauda A WORLD CHAMPION (72 pts.)
1984 John Watson GB 6th (22 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-TAG Porsche (1st 90 pts.)
1985 Alain Prost F WORLD CHAMPION (73 pts.)
1985 Niki Lauda A 10th (14 pts.) Lauda returned to running his airline, Lauda Air, on his second Formula One retirement in 1985. During his time as airline manager, he was appointed consultant at Ferrari as part of an effort by Montezemolo to rejuvenate the team. Ousted by board-room politics after a sale to majority partner Austrian Airlines in 1999, he managed the Jaguar Formula One racing team from 2001 to 2002. In late 2003, he started a new airline, Niki. Lauda holds a commercial pilot’s license and from time to time acts as a captain on the flights of his airline. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993. Since 1996 his comments on Formula One are widely quoted in the motorsport press, and he provides commentary for Austrian and German television coverage RTL. Niki Lauda has written four books: The Art and Science of Grand Prix Driving (1975); My Years With Ferrari (1978); The New Formula One: A Turbo Age (1984); and an autobiography, Meine Story.
1985 John Watson GB NIL (At the end of his F1 career, he turned to racing sports cars. After retiring from active racing, he has worked as a television commentator.)
Marlboro McLaren-TAG Porsche (2nd 96 pts.)
1986 Alain Prost F WORLD CHAMPION (72 pts.)
1986 Keke Rosberg FIN 6th (22 pts.) Retired from F.1. Pursued sports cars/24 Hours of Le Mans/DTM where he set up his own team until the series collapsed in 1996. He entered Formula 3, the Formula Three Euroseries and A1 GP. Team Rosberg returned to the revitalized DTM series first with Mercedes and then in 2006, with Audi.
Marlboro McLaren-TAG Porsche (2nd 76 pts.)
1987 Alain Prost F 4th (46 pts.)
1987 Stefan Johansson S 6th (30 pts.) (Loto Ligier-Judd)
Marlboro McLaren-Honda (1st 199 pts.)
1988 Ayrton Senna BR WORLD CHAMPION (90 pts.)
1988 Alain Prost F 2nd (87 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-Honda (1st 141 pts.)
1989 Alain Prost F WORLD CHAMPION (76 pts.) (Ferrari)
1989 Ayrton Senna BR 2nd (60 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-Honda (1st 121 pts.)
1990 Ayrton Senna BR WORLD CHAMPION (78 pts.)
1990 Gerhard Berger A 4th (43 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-Honda (1st 139 pts.)
1991 Ayrton Senna BR WORLD CHAMPION (96 pts.)
1991 Gerhard Berger A 4th (43 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-Honda (2nd 99 pts.)
1992 Ayrton Senna BR 4th (50 pts.)
1992 Gerhard Berger A 5th (49 pts.) (Ferrari)
Marlboro McLaren-Ford (2nd 84 pts.)
1993 Ayrton Senna BR 2nd (73 pts.) (Williams)
1993 Michael Andretti USA Inexperienced with Formula One cars and continual problems with electronics, Andretti only finished one race in third place. He was replaced by Hakkinen. (CART)
1993 Mika Hakkinen FIN 15th (4 pts.)
Marlboro McLaren-Peugeot (4th 42 pts.)
1994 Mika Hakkinen FIN 4th (26 pts.)
1994 Martin Brundle GB 8th (16 pts.) (Ligier Gitanes Bondes-Mugen Honda)
1994 Philippe Alliot F NIL (Skoal Bandit RAM-Hart)
Marlboro McLaren-Mercedes(4th 30 pts.)
1995 Mika Hakkinen FIN 7th (17 pts.)
1995 Nigel Mansell GB NIL (British Touring Car Championship/Grand Prix Master series/FIA GT series/American Le Mans/Petit Le Mans.)
1995 Mark Blundell GB 10th (13 pts.) (CART)
1995 Jan Magnussen DEN NIL (Stewart-Ford)
Marlboro McLaren-Mercedes (4th 49 pts.)
1996 Mika Hakkinen FIN 5th (31 pts.)
1996 David Coulthard GB 7th (18 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (4th 63 pts.)
1997 Mika Hakkinen FIN 6th (27 pts.)
1997 David Coulthard GB 3rd (36 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (1st 156 pts.)
1998 Mika Hakkinen FIN WORLD CHAMPION (100 pts.)
1998 David Coulthard GB 3rd (56 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 124 pts.)
1999 Mika Hakkinen FIN WORLD CHAMPION (76 pts.)
1999 David Coulthard GB 4th (48 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 152 pts.)
2000 Mika Hakkinen FIN 2nd (89 pts.)
2000 David Coulthard GB 3rd (73 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 102 pts.)
2001 Mika Hakkinen FIN 5th (37 pts.) Retired from F.1. Entered DTM and in 2008 started a business in driver management.)
2001 David Coulthard GB 2nd (65 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (3rd 65 pts.)
2002 David Coulthard GB 5th (41 pts.)
2002 Kimi Raikkonen FIN 6th (24 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (3rd 142 pts.)
2003 Kimi Raikkonen FIN 2nd (91 pts.)
2003 David Coulthard GB 7th (51 pts.)
West McLaren-Mercedes (5th 69 pts.)
2004 Kimi Raikkonen FIN 7th (45 pts.)
2004 David Coulthard GB 10th (24 pts.) (Red Bull-Ferrari)
West McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 182 pts.)
2005 Kimi Raikkonen FIN 2nd (112 pts.)
2005 Juan Palblo Montoya COL 4th (60 pts.)
2005 Pedro de la Rosa E 20th (4 pts.)
2005 Alexander Wurz A 17th (6 pts.) (Williams’ test driver)
Vodofone McLaren-Mercedes (3rd 110 pts.)
2006 Kimi Raikkonen FIN 5th (65 pts.) (Ferrari)
2006 Juan Palblo Montoya COL 8th (26 pts.) (CART)
2006 Pedro de la Rosa E 11th (19 pts.) (McLaren’s test driver)
Vodofone McLaren-Mercedes
NOTE: (DISQUALIFIED FOR ESPIONAGE ON TEAM FERRARI)
2007 Lewis Hamilton GB 2nd (109 pts.) In his first season in Formula One Hamilton set numerous records and finished second in the 2007 Formula One Championship one point behind Kimi Räikkönen.
2007 Fernando Alonso E 3rd (106 pts.) (ING Renault)
Vodofone McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 151 pts.)
2008 Lewis Hamilton GB WORLD CHAMPION (98 pts.) He won the Championship by a single point over Felipe Massa. He is not only the first black to win the Championship, but the youngest driver to win it as well.
2008 Heikki Kovalainen FIN 7th (53 pts.)
Vodofone McLaren-Mercedes (3rd 71 pts.)
2009 Lewis Hamilton GB 5th (49 pts.)
2009 Heikki Kovalainen FIN 12th (22 pts.)
Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 454 pts.) Under the new points system.
2010 Lewis Hamilton GB 4th (240 pts.)
2010 Jenson Button GB 5th (214 pts.)
Vodofone McLaren-Mercedes (2nd 497 pts.)
2011 Lewis Hamilton GB 5th (227 pts.)
2011 Jenson Button GB 2nd (270 pts.) Stunning race during the rain soaked Canadian G.P. with Button trailing 10th, but managed to pull out a victory on the last half lap, overtaking Sebastian Vettel for the win. One of the greatest come-from-behind victories in Grand Prix racing.

Number of Drivers’ Championships: 12
Number of Constructors’Championships: 8

MERCEDES-BENZ

TEAM: MERCEDES-BENZ
NATIONALITY: D
INCEPTION: 1954-1955/2010-
COMMENT: In 1954 Mercedes-Benz returned to what was now known as Formula One racing (a World championship having been established in 1950), using the technologically advanced Mercedes-Benz W196 which was run in both open-wheeled and streamlined forms. Juan Manuel Fangio, a previous champion (1951) transferred mid-season from Maserati to Mercedes-Benz for their debut at the French Grand Prix on 4 July 1954. The team had immediate success and recorded a 1-2 victory with Fangio and Karl Kling, as well as the fastest lap (Hans Herrmann). Fangio went on to win three more races in 1954, winning the Championship.The success continued into the 1955 season, where the same car was used again. The team’s drivers, Fangio and the young Stirling Moss, won 6 of the 9 rounds between them, and finished first and second in that year’s championship.The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans when a racing car involved in an accident flew into the crowd, killing the driver (Pierre Levegh, hired by Mercedes-Benz as a factory driver in 1955.) and 80 spectators. In terms of human toll, it is the most catastrophic accident in motorsports history. Mercedes-Benz announced that they would no longer participate in factory sponsored motorsport in order to concentrate on development of regular cars. The self-imposed ban on circuit racing lasted until the 1980s. In 1993, Mercedes-Benz made its return to Formula One as an engine supplier to Sauber, with whom they had already enjoyed success in sportscar racing, in its debut F1 season. By 2009, they are the engine suppliers for McLaren, Brawn, and Force India. In late 2009 and early 2010, Mercedes-Benz acquired Brawn GP and thus entered the 2010 season with the original Silver Arrows. The world of sports were stunned when it was revealed that Michael Schumacher was to reapear in Formula One signing a three year contract. Norbert Hhaug, Ross Brawn and Nick Fry are the top characters behind Mercedes grand Prix Petronas.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Mercedes-Benz (57 pts.)
1954 Juan Manuel Fangio ARG WORLD CHAMPION (42 pts.)
1954 Karl Kling D 5th (12 pts.)
1954 Hans Herrmann D 7th (8 pts.)
1954 Hermann Lang D NIL (Retired from racing to concentrate on his job at the Mercedes factory. He died in 1987, age 78.)
Mercedes-Benz (78 pts.)
1955 Juan Manuel Fangio ARG WORLD CHAMPION (40 pts.) (Lancia-Ferrari)
1955 Stirling Moss GB 2nd (23 pts.) (Maserati)
1955 Piero Taruffi I 6th (9 pts.) (Maserati)
1955 Karl Kling D 11th (5 pts.) He left the Formula One team at the end of the season, to succeed Alfred Neubauer as head of Mercedes motorsport. He was in this post during their successful rallying campaigns of the 1960s, occasionally taking the wheel himself. On one such occasion he drove a Mercedes-Benz 220SE to victory in the mighty 1961 Algiers-Cape Town trans-African rally. He died in 2003, age 93.)
1955 Hans Herrmann D 22nd (1 pt.) ( Maserati)
1955 Andre Simon F NIL (Maserati)
Mercedes GP Petronas (214 pts. 4th) Under the new points system.
2010 Michael Schumacher D 9th (72)
2010 Nico Rosberg D 7th (142)
Mercedes-Benz Petronas (4th 165 pts.)
2011 Nico Rosberg D 7th (89 pts.)
2011 Michael Schumacher D 8th (76 pts.)

Number of Drivers’ Championships: 2
Number of Constructors’Championships: 1

MERZARIO

TEAM: MERZARIO
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1978-1979
COMMENT: Merzario was a Formula One constructor from Italy. They participated in 31 Grands Prix but scored no championship points. The team was set up by former Ferrari, Williams and March driver Arturo Merzario when he could no longer find a drive with an established team. He started out with a car based largely on his March 761, with crude bodywork vaguely reminiscent of a Ferrari 312T2 in its use of cockpit-side ducting for an air intake. This was later modified by Simon Hadfield into a ground effect ‘wing’ car. Merzario later purchased the assets of the Kauhsen team (and their driver Gianfranco Brancatelli), arguably taking on cars even worse than his old March-based vehicle. When Merzario’s money ran out he stepped back to constructing Formula Two cars but was keen to point out that the engine bay of his F2s could easily be modified to take a Cosworth DFV F1 engine.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Merzario-Cosworth (NIL)
1978 Alberto Colombo I NIL (Formula 2)
1978 Arturo Merzario I NIL
Merzario-Cosworth (NIL)
1979 Arturo Merzario I NIL (Merzario is still active in sports car racing well into his sixties, driving in an Italian Prototype series.)
1979 Gianfranco Brancatelli I NIL (Touring Cars)

MINARDI

TEAM: MINARDI
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1985-2005
COMMENT: Minardi was an automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans. In 2001, to save the team from folding, Minardi sold it to Australian businessman Paul Stoddart, who ran the team for five years before selling it on to Red Bull in 2005 who renamed it Scuderia Toro Rosso. Before Minardi’s demise, it was a particularly well-liked team within Formula One circles for many reasons. In the paddock, the team was noted for friendliness, accessibility, and lack of corporate culture (universally regarded as having the best espresso in F1). On the track, their cars were regarded by many as well-designed for their tiny budget, their lowly position recognised as more of a lack of funds (and engine power) rather than a necessarily poor car. Scuderia Toro Rosso made its racing debut in the 2006 Formula One season, after Paul Stoddart sold his remaining interest in the Minardi team at the end of 2005 to Red Bull’s owner, Dietrich Mateschitz, who subsequently struck a 50/50 joint-ownership deal with former F1 driver, Gerhard Berger, before the start of the season. In late November 2008, Red Bull regained total ownership of Toro Rosso after buying back Berger’s share of the team.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Minardi-Ford/Moderni (NIL)
1985 Pierluigi Martini I NIL
Minardi-Ford/Moderni (NIL)
1986 Andrea de Cesaris I NIL (Brabham-BMW)
1986 Alessandro Nannini I NIL
Minardi-Ford/Moderni (NIL)
1987 Adrian Campos I NIL
1987 Alessandro Nannini I NIL (Benetton-Cosworth)
Minardi-Ford (10th 1 pt.)
1988 Pierluigi Martini I 17th (1 pt.)
1988 Adrian Campos I NIL (Spanish Touring Cars, winning in 1994./GP2/F3)
1988 Luis Perez-Sala E NIL
Minardi-Ford (11th 6 pts.)
1989 Pierluigi Martini I 15th (5 pts.)
1989 Luis Perez-Sala E 28th (1 pt.) (Spanish Touring Car Championship)
1989 Paolo Barilla I NIL
Minardi-Ford (NIL)
1990 Pierluigi Martini I NIL
1990 Paolo Barilla I NIL (Paolo is one of the heirs of the vast Barilla pasta empire. Barilla retired from racing and joined his family’s businesses, but has remained connected to motorsports due to Barilla’s sponsorship of Alex Zanardi.)
1990 Gianni Morbidelli I NIL
Minardi-Ferrari (7th 6 pts.)
1991 Pierluigi Martini I 11th (6 pts.) (BMS Dallara-Ferrari)
1991 Gianni Morbidelli I 24th (0.5 pt.)
1991 Roberto Moreno BR NIL (Andrea Moda-Judd)
Minardi-Lamborghini (12th 1 pt)
1992 Christian Fittipaldi BR 17th (1 pt.)
1992 Alessandro Zanardi I NIL (Lotus-Ford)
1992 Gianni Morbidelli I NIL (Footwork-Ford)
Minardi-Ford (8th 7 pts.)
1993 Christian Fittipaldi BR 13th (5 pts.) (Footwork-Ford)
1993 Fabrizio Barbazza I 19th (2 pts.) Ferrari sports cars. In 1995, while racing a Ferrari 333SP sports prototype at the Road Atlanta circuit, he was involved in an accident with Jeremy Dale, which resulted in heavy head and chest injuries which left him in critical condition, in a coma and on artificial respiration. Although he fully recovered, he didn’t return to racing. Instead he started a go-kart circuit in Monza and began designing crash barriers. He has since relocated to Cuba where he has set up a fishing resort in the north of the country called La Villa Clara. He has also raced again, at a local karting track in Cuba, where he has re-discovered his love for racing.
1993 Jean-Marc Gounon F NIL (Simtek-Ford)
1993 Pierluigi Martini I NIL
Minardi-Ford (10th 5 pts.)
1994 Pierluigi Martini I 21st (4 pts.)
1994 Michelé Alboreto I 24th (1 pt.)(International Touring Car Championship – Alfa Corse. 1997 for the Italian, however, would be remembered for winning the Le Mans 24 Hours with the same car as the previous year, but this time alongside Swede Stefan Johansson, another former F1 teammate, and Dane Tom Kristensen, who would later go onto beat Jacky Ickx record for winning the most Le Mans 24 Hour races. This would prove to be the peak of Alboreto’s sportscar success as he failed to finish at Le Mans in 1999 with newcomer Audi. However, a third at the 2000 Le Mans 24 Hours and a win at the 2001 Sebring 12 Hours gave the Italian some final success prior to his death a month after his win at Sebring.)
Minardi-Ford (10th 1 pt.)
1995 Pierluigi Martini I NIL (After Formula One, Martini started a successful sportscar career. His first race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was in 1996 with a Porsche run by Joest Racing. 1997 brought a fourth place finish in a Porsche 911 GT1 which he also raced in the FIA GT Championship that year. In 1998, he joined the brand new Le Mans program of BMW Motorsports. In 1999, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours together with Yannick Dalmas and Joachim Winkelhock driving for BMW. Martini came back to motorsports in 2006, competing in the prestigious Grand Prix Masters series for retired Formula One drivers. He participated in 124 Formula One Grands Prix.)
1995 Pedro Lamy POR 18th (1 pt.)
1995 Luca Badoer I NIL
Minardi-Ford (NIL)
1996 Pedro Lamy POR NIL (FIA GT Championship where he won the GT2 class in 1998. He also entered the A1 Grand Prix/American Le Mans Series and the Le Mans Series with Peugeot.)
1996 Giancarlo Fisichella I NIL (German Touring Car Championship)
1996 Tarso Marques BR NIL
1996 Giovanni Lavaggi I NIL (Owner of the GLV Brums sportscar racing team.)
Roces/Mild Seven Minardi-Ford (NIL)
1997 Jarno Trulli I NIL (Switched to Prost mid-season)
1997 Tarso Marques BR NIL (Champ Cars)
1997 Ukyo Katayama JAP NIL (Sports Cars/GT racing/Dakar Rally/Speedcar Series. He is also an accomplished mountaineer and has climbed the world’s six-highest mountain, Cho Oyu.)
Roces Minardi-Ford (NIL)
1998 Shinji Nakano JAP NIL (Champ Car/Le Mans Series)
1998 Esteban Tuero ARG NIL (T2000 Touring Car Racing/CART Series)
Telefonica Fondmetal Minardi-Ford (10th 1 pt.)
1999 Luca Badoer I NIL (Test driver for Ferrari.)
1999 Stéphane Sarrazin F NIL (F3000 Series/Superfund World Series/World Rally Championship/American Le Mans Series/Le Mans Series.)
1999 Marc Gené E 18th (1 pt.)
Telefonica Telefonica Minardi-Fondmetal (NIL)
2000 Marc Gené F NIL (Williams-BMW)
2000 Gastón Mazzacane F NIL (Prost-Acer)
Minardi-European (NIL)
2001 Tarso Marques BR NIL (TC2000/Stock Car Brazil Touring Car Championship)
2001 Alex Yoong CHI NIL
2001 Fernando Alonso E NIL (Renault)
KL Minardi-Asiatech (9th 2 pts.)
2002 Alex Yoong CHI NIL (Champ Car Series/A1 Grand Prix/Le Mans Series/GP2 Asia Series)
2002 Anthony Davidson GB NIL (Lucky Strike BAR-Honda)
2002 Mark Webber AUS 16th (2 pts.) (Jaguar)
Minardi-Cosworth (NIL)
2003 Justin Wilson GB NIL (Switched to Jaguar towards the end of the ‘03 season. Only driver to put his name on the Stock Exchange to raise capital.)
2003 Nicolas Kiesa DEN NIL (Jordan-Toyota)
2003 Jos Verstappen NL NIL (A1 Grand Prix Series/Le Mans Series. In December 2008, Verstappen was found guilty of threatening his separated wife in text messages and violating a previous restraining order, he was fined and was sentenced to three months probational suspended jail time. Verstappen was previously convicted of assault in October 2000 over an incident at a karting track in 1998 in which a man
suffered a fractured skull. He and his father were given five-year suspended sentences after reaching an out-of court settlement with the victim.)
Minardi-Cosworth (10th 1 pt.)
2004 Gianmaria Bruni I NIL (GP2 Series/He was 2nd in the FIA GT Championship in ‘07.)
2004 Zsolt Baumgartner HUN 20th (1 pt.) (Champ Car World Series/Superleague Formula)
Lost Boys Minardi-Cosworth (10th 7 pts.)
2005 Christijan Albers NL 19th (4 pts.) (Midland)
2005 Patrick Friesacher A 23rd (3 pts.) (A1GP Series/American Le Mans Series/Acura Sports Cars Challenge (St. Petersburg, FL.)
2005 Robert Doornbos NL NIL (Jordan)

MODENA LAMBORGHINI

TEAM: MODENA LAMBORGHINI
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1991
COMMENT: Modena was a Formula One team from Italy, full name Modena Team. The team had a rather muddy history, and are often referred to as the Lambo or Lamborghini team because of its engines. The team colloquially being called Lambo was almost more strong in usage than being called Modena, it should be noted. They first emerged as the Mexican outfit GLAS in late 1990, with former Alfa Romeo and Spirit driver Mauro Baldi as a proposed backer and driver, and with a deal for Lamborghini’s V12 engine. However, the Mexican backers disappeared, and Lamborghini bailed the team out. They relocated to Modena in Italy, hence the changed name, and entered the 1991 Formula One series. Lamborghini were reluctant to have them viewed as a “works” team as this might reflect badly on the marque, though most media sources ignored this. However, Modena Team, after an initial lump sum from Lamborghini, were entirely independent. According to the official entry lists for the 1991 Grand Prix season, Modena Team were the entrants, and the chassis was the Lambo 291. Nicola Larini and Eric van de Poele were signed to drive. Both cars had to face pre-qualifying for the first half of the season and each driver only made it through into the race on one occasion – Larini eventually coming 7th at the opening United States Grand Prix, and van de Poele running 5th at the San Marino Grand Prix before a mechanical problem dropped him to 9th less than a lap from the end. By mid-season the team were in dire financial straights.
Lamborghini refused to release any additional funds, and though the team were now clear of pre-qualifying, they were unable to make any progress. Larini got through to a further four races (spinning out of the German Grand Prix, coming 16th at the Hungarian Grand Prix and Italian Grand Prix and colliding with Jean Alesi at the Australian Grand Prix). However, the team disappeared before the 1992 season.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Modena Lamborghini (NIL)
1991 Eric van de Poele B NIL (Brabham-Judd)
1991 Nicola Larini I NIL (Ferrari)