The Unusual History Of F1 Teams 

And 2 weeks after this video is released, Sauber renames to Alfa Romeo 🤣🤣

Brawn GP is the most successful F1 team because it won every championship it competed in :)

I paid more for my toy brawn gp car than Ross purchased a whole team

I'm Italian, and when I was 6(2009) I thought that RedBull and ToroRosso were the same thing, but I also tought "Why the commentator translates the name of a team? That drove me crazy as well as the Lotus vs Lotus thing And then I learnt the difference between "Who builds the engine" and "Who owns the team"

We now need an updated version with Alpha Tauri, Alpine and Aston Martin

When Toro Rosso gets a win before its big brother Red Bull.

Who’s here after Toro Rosso is gonna be renamed Alpha Tauri?

The most interesting story was Ferrari. Ferrari became a team in 1950, the start of Formula 1 and still is. *The End*

The Lotus vs Lotus situation in 2011 gets even better if you know that Team Lotus also used Renault engines. This caused the full team names to be "Team Lotus Renault" and "Lotus Renault GP". In 2010 the Sauber team also had a pretty interesting name. When BMW left at the end of 2009, the team lost their F1 entry, but thanks to the withdrawal of Toyota they could regain an entry. To avoid losing the tv money they continued to race under the "BMW Sauber" name, although not being owned anymore or being sponsored by BMW. And since they used Ferrari engines, they were fully named "BMW Sauber Ferrari".

Ferrari is so complex. Definitely the most interesting

Soo...Senna, Schumacher and Alonso were drivers for renault

So your saying when they say “Red Bull toro rosso” they are saying “Red Bull Red Bull” lmao

So Sauber changed its name to Alfa Romeo, but it's actually still owned by Sauber? Weird.

i want to knowwhat happened to arrows, peugeot, caterham, HRT, Larrouse, ligier, prost and super aguri.

You left off the most amazing F1 teams of all time, Life Racing Engines, Andrea Moda Formula, and MasterCard Lola!

Did you know that: Jos verstappen Raced for Stewart. Steward Became Jaguar then RedBull Racing He ended his F1 Career with Minardi, what later became Toro Rosso Max Verstappen Started his f1 carreer with Toro Rosso and now Drives for Red Bull Racing coincidence? Maybe

Unusal History of Drivers Getting Into F1 would be appreciated

Mercedes actually a honda confirmed

Benetton in 2000 and 2001 season - based in England (Enstone), owned by French (Renault), licensed in Italy.

Who's here after Pierre Gasly just won Monza!?

There are much more interesting teams: - Shadow - Ligier (bought by Prost in '96) - Arrows - Brabham

I always believed everyone knows tgar torro roso was red bull in italian

I love and I'm fascinated by the real Lotus, the legacy of the incredible Colin Chapman. They went from leading f1 to disappearing almost entirely.

When Renault renames to Alpine Racing Point renames to Aston Martin Toro Rosso renames to AlphaTauri Sauber renames to Alfa Romeo 2 years later

Man yet another good quality video by wtf1

I miss Jordan F1. The days of the minnows with a comparatively tiny budget genuinely fighting for wins, and at one stage, the championship were amazing. The fact it wore the shamrock was a huge reason for pride for me too on a personal note.

By 2019 Sauber becomes Alfa Romeo as the team was bought by Alfa. But still bares the C name in their chassis By 2020 toro Rosso becomes alpha tauri. By 2021 racing point will become Aston Martin racing because Lawrence stroll bought a share in Aston Martin which forces red bull to end their partnership with Aston Martin until the end of 2020.

Would be interesting to see Sauber updated for 2019 to include Alfa Romeo.. and then Alfa Romeo's history!

"How done are you?" "About medium rare"

Thank you for spelling my surname correctly! Although Tyrrell’s first full season was 1971, my great-grandfather’s first race as a constructor was Summer of 1970 with Tyrrell001! (PS love the channel)

2021 still remembered this one.

Please make a video about past teams, their origins and what became of teams such as BRM, the original Alfa Romeo, Wolf, the original Honda, Lancia, Maserati, Arrows, Dallara, Lola, Brabham, Cooper, etc.

The fact that, the fact that Toro Rosso translates to red bull blows your mind, blows my mind. If you hadn't put that together immediately you were probably comatose.

So mercedes now is not the 50s mercedes and renault now is not the 70s renault, ok

I think it's really great that Ken Tyrell's entry ended up being one of the most successful teams in F1 history.

Mercedes is so good because their roots were from Honda, Brawn, and Tyrell! 😂🤔

Brawn GP was absolutely brilliant, that was a real piss take. 😂

Another awesome video! Keep up the good work guys :)

£1 Then:Championship winning car £1 Now:Williams.

Well, since 2019, a few team rebrands have happened. Renault was rebranded to Alpine to promote their sports cars company at the start of the 2021 season, Racing Point changed its name to Aston Martin in 2021, Toro Rosso changed its name to AlphaTauri in 2020, and Sauber changed its name to Alfa Romeo in 2019.

One such interesting fact: only Ferrari, Torro Rosso (until 2018) and Sauber doesn’t have RA departments on England

Great Quality!! Congrats WTF1!!

I really appreciated all of this as I had completely lost track of who's who. I used to watch Senna and Prost as a kid. Thanks.

Maybe another video with the engine changes and it gets even more confusing? :) Steward (Ford) --> Jaguar (Cosworth) --> Red Bull (Cosworth, Ferrari, Renault, Honda) Minardi (Cosworth, Motori Moderni, Cosworth, Ford, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Ford, Hart, Ford, Fondmetal (?), European (?), Asiatech (?), Cosworth) --> Torro Rosso (Cosworth, Ferrari, Renault, Ferrari, Renault, Honda) Toleman (Hart) --> Benneton (BMW (didn't know that), Ford, Renault, Supertec, Renault) --> Renault (Renault) --> Lotus F1 (Renault, Mercedes) --> Renault (Renault) Sauber (Ilmor, Mercedes, Ford, Petronas) --> BMW Sauber (Ferrari (not BMW!)) --> Sauber (Ferrari) Jordan (Cosworth, Yamaha, Hart, Peugeot, Mugen-Honda, Honda, Ford Cosworth, Toyota) --> Midland (Toyota) --> Spyker (Toyota, Ferrari) --> Force India (Ferrari, Mercedes) --> Racing Point (Mercedes) Tyrrell (Cosworth, Renault, Cosworth, Honda, Ilmor, Yamaha, Ford) --> BAR (Supertec, Honda) --> Honda (Honda) --> Brawn GP (Mercedes) --> Mercedes Mclaren (Ford, BRM, Ford Cosworth, BRM, Ford Cosworth, AlfaRomeo, Ford Cosworth, TAG TTE (kinda made by Porsche), Honda, Ford, Peugeot, Mercedes, Honda, Renault) Ferrari (well...)

Haas seems to have a very interesting history

Wow, so Toro Rosso is basically older than Red Bull.

Matt is a natural. Very happy to see how much wtf1 has progressed. Keep up the good job!

Ross Brawn had tons of winning experience when he was in charge with Michael Schumacher, so he knew the game well. I would've liked to see Jensen Button win more championships though.

2 years later. Now Sauber is Alfa Romeo, Toro Rosso is Alpha Tauri, and Racing Point is Aston Martin

English speakers: Oh look it's Red Bull & Toro Rosso! Italians: Oh look it's Red Bull & Red Bull ! 🤔

Thank you for the information. I have been confuse so many years . Now everything is clear . 👍👍👍👍👍😊

Seen This Many Times In My Recommended, But Later On Decided To Watch This

Which team I am most intrigued of? Renault. Because despite changing to Lotus and back to Renault, it didn't harm the team. In fact, 2012/2013 have been 2 fantastic years with two great drivers we all love: Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean. Or the years before with Robert Kubica and Vitali Petrov. Damn, that was cool. So the switch from Renault to Lotus didn't harm the team, neither the switch back to Renault.

I have 1 word: Lotus

Great summary! I would suggest to create a similar video of legendary, but already closed F1 teams, like the original Lotus, Arrows, Hesketh, Ligier, Maserati, Brabham. These were GP winners and their history is interesting.

Enjoyed the very informative vid mate! Interesting facts and historic perspectives.

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I need to watch this video, once again~

Awesome video thank you WTF1

Wooooooooow, I was blown away when you said that Brawn became Mecedes!!! I didn't have any clue of this!!!

Technically, the Racing Point team is about to enter its first full season, having entered their first race as a new constructor at Spa in 2018. Because Lawrence Stroll bought the assets of Force India when they went into administration, it technically became a new team in the eyes of the FIA. The only reason it still had the Force India name for the rest of the season is because in Formula One the chassis name has to be in team name, and they were running Force India cars which were... Force India’s.

What a great video!

The history of the current Mercedes team is most interesting to me. Tyrrell certainly had quite a run but eventually ran out of steam. I had the pleasure of meeting “Chopper” many years ago at an SAE exposition. Brawn GP is also a fascinating piece to the puzzle. One of the underrepresented aspects of Brawn GP is the extraordinary job they did to mate the Mercedes drivetrain to a car that had been designed to use Honda equipment. Mega!

Brilliant video. Thanks for the explanations.

Why were Red Bull cars better and more reliable than Toyota or Honda ? Do you recommend I buy a RedBull for commuting?

Who's here after hearing Racing Point is becoming the Aston Martin F1 team?

Fantastic video, answered questions id always asked as a new formula 1 fan

Great video! I’d love to see this on a poster w/ all of the different cars 😍

now toro rosso=alpha tauri renault=alpine sauber=alfa romeo racing point=aston martin

This is my favorite part of F1. It’s easy to enjoy, but there’s also so many little details that you can only really enjoy once you get to know them. Kinda like a mechanical watch.

Dude you unravelled this history nicely. 10/10

Excellent video showing how the different teams evolved

Minardi...... still number one in my heart

3:16 Sauber has been renamed to Alfa Romeo as of 2019.

One of the greatest videos of RU-vid!

Excellent Overview!

We need an updated version! Rich energy, Williams, racing point and slow Ferrari!

if you seeing this in 2019 there are a few changes 1.Sauber changed to Alfa Romeo Racing 2.Racing Point Force India changed to SportPesa Racing Point More Edits soon

Kudos to WTF1 for cleaning up the mess and explaining it without blowing themselves up!

Great job thanks 👍

The really weird thing about Sauber was they still had to compete officially as "BMW Sauber" in 2010, despite running Ferrari engines.

It's weird to be italian in this case, because knowing Toro Rosso means Red Bull is very normal, but apparently for others it's mind blowing 😕

great research. F1's history is fascinating

it's so weird to see Faenza in the video, i live right in the middle of two great F1 towns, Imola and Faenza haha

You forgot to mention that Williams became Wolf Racing, and later was reopen as Williams as a new team by Sir Frank Williams.

1:05 yes i know it! Because i'm italian

I kind of love that the main Honda engined team today is competing for the championship with the team which Honda is responsible for launching into the big time. Brawn GPs car was after all largely built by Honda and that is where Mercades came back.

Cool video, it needs an update, and I would love a recap at the end showing all the team on the grid with the "classic" name :)

Ferrari’s history is so complicated I can’t get my head around it

Ferrari:1950........2019..... Forza rossa

that final graph would make an amazing poster!

I think you should do one about the F1 teams and the engines they used . Like Williams team using a Renault engine

Isn’t Race Point now a new team because they had to re-enter as a different team and the Force India team were removed from the championship. Therefore that makes four teams who haven’t changed ownership?...

Aaaaaaaaaand now Sauber is called Alfa Romeo, without beeing Alfa Romeo :D

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Should do a video on the strangest features on an F1 car. Like the Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler or the infamous McLaren F-duct or the legendary double diffuser from Brawn!

Was the start of Williams that simple? What about the Wolf-Williams Racing?

Frentzen “almost” won the 99 championship.

I love your work

What a brilliant video