1970–2026 · British · Wikipedia
Based in Brackley, West Northamptonshire, England · London metro (since 1999)
One organisation, 5 names: Tyrrell Racing → British American Racing → Honda Racing F1 → Brawn GP → Mercedes. The totals below are for the whole lineage; the eras table breaks them out.
Who controls the club
The entity that holds control today, one per franchise; co-controllers and minority holders are listed, never summed.
How this is measured
Exactly one control entity is recorded per franchise, so a portfolio can never count a club twice. Co-controllers and minority holders are shown as published and carry no weight in any total.
The chip names the evidence. Sourced: a primary source is linked (league, club, filing or tier-one outlet). Cross-checked: matched against the ownership-change sweep. Contested: disputed or mid-sale. Rows are reviewed weekly.
Stakes are as published, often only “majority”, and are not pro-rated. A record of control is not a claim about anyone’s intent or conduct.
Who controls the clubMercedes-Benz Group, INEOS and Toto Wolff
Shared control with: Mercedes-Benz Group AG 33.3%; INEOS (Jim Ratcliffe) 33.3%; Toto Wolff 28.3%
Minority holders: George Kurtz, about 5%, bought Nov 2025
Deliberately recorded as having no single controller. INEOS bought in as an equal third in Dec 2020 and the three have held roughly even stakes since; Wolff sold a slice of his holding to George Kurtz in Nov 2025 at a valuation near $6bn without changing the balance. Picking the largest of three near-equal partners would assert a control that does not exist.
- Manchester UnitedEngland · minority stake
Mercedes-Benz Group, INEOS and Toto Wolff on the owners board →
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Championship position, season by season
One bar per season entered, taller for a better finish in the constructors’ championship, coloured by whether the season brought the title or at least one win (key under the chart). A season the team did not race is an empty slot, so gaps in the record show as gaps. Tap or drag the bars for any season’s numbers.
The eras
Why these are one team
- British American Racing. BAR bought Tyrrell's entry in 1998 and moved the operation to a new Brackley factory. The purchase of the entry, not just the assets, is what makes this one organisation rather than two.
- Honda Racing F1. Honda bought the team outright for 2006. Distinct from the 1964-68 Honda works team, which is filed separately.
- Brawn GP. Ross Brawn's management buyout after Honda withdrew in late 2008. One season, both titles, then sold to Mercedes.
- Mercedes. Distinct from the 1954-55 Mercedes-Benz works team, filed separately.
Where the cars were built
The archive records a team’s nationality, which is a racing licence rather than an address: Red Bull is Austrian and has never built a car outside Buckinghamshire. These are the actual sites, curated with a source for each, and each one placed in a metro where the workbook can rule on the town.
- Ockham. Ken Tyrrell's works, at Long Reach between Ockham and Ripley. Period directories render the same address as both, which is a postal variant rather than a second site.
- Brackley. Built for BAR's 1999 debut by Adrian Reynard's Reynard Motorsport, and the same building through Honda, Brawn and Mercedes.
- Brixworth. Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains. Engines only.
Getting to the finish
The share of car entries classified as finishers, by decade. This is the statistic that separates the eras of the sport more sharply than lap times do: a 1960s team that finished a fifth of its entries was normal.
Teammate against teammate
The same car, the same weekend, the only comparison in the sport with nothing else in it. Qualifying counts the races where both cars set a grid time; the race counts the races where both were classified, because a car that broke on lap two did not lose to anybody. The two denominators are different for that reason, and both are shown.
Season by season
Who drove for them
Showing 40 of 60 drivers, most wins first.
Where they won
Their best circuits, and the metro each one sits in. This is a metro site before it is a motorsport one, so every venue links back to its city.
Where these numbers come from
Results are the Ergast archive and its Jolpica successor, 1950 to the current season. That archive identifies a car by chassis and engine rather than by the company entering it, so the teams here are reassembled by hand; the rules and every judgement call are set out on the teams board.
Wins, podiums and poles count car entries, so a one-two counts as two podiums. Points are as awarded at the time and are not comparable across eras: a win was worth 8 points in 1960 and 25 today. Titles count finished seasons only, so leading the current championship does not yet count as one.
Points are points scored, race and sprint together, and every season from 1991 onward is checked against the official constructors’ table at build time. Earlier seasons will not match it, and are not meant to: for much of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the championship. Sprint wins are counted separately from Grand Prix wins, because a Saturday result is not a victory in the record books.
Factory locations are curated separately, in scripts/f1/bases.py, with a source per site. The archive has no address field at all. Each town is then put to MetroAreas.xlsx, and a town the workbook cannot rule on is shown without a metro rather than assigned to the nearest one.