Which teams will still be in F1 in ten years’ time?
Debates and polls
Just four of the 11 teams from 2002 remain
Of the 11 teams which contested the 2002 season, just four remain on the grid ten years later.
And of those, one has been taken over and then sold again in the intervening period.
Manufacturers come and go
Peugeot’s shock announcement on Wednesday that it was scrapping its endurance racing team served as a reminder that teams backed by car manufacturers can disappear with little warning.
Those in F1 have recent experience of this – Renault, Honda, BMW and Toyota have all set up and then abandoned F1 projects within the last decade, though Renault remain as an engine supplier.
Other manufacturers have demonstrated greater staying power: none more so than Ferrari, the only team left from the first year of the world championship in 1950.
Having had an F1 team in the fifties, Mercedes returned to the sport as an engine supplier in 1994, and became a full works outfit again two years ago.
Which teams will still be in F1 in 2022?
- Red Bull (51%)
- McLaren (96%)
- Ferrari (97%)
- Mercedes (46%)
- Lotus (21%)
- Force India (16%)
- Sauber (27%)
- Toro Rosso (9%)
- Williams (45%)
- Caterham (27%)
- HRT (2%)
- Marussia (2%)
Total Voters: 486
Loading ...McLaren are taking their first steps as a car manufacturer. Lotus, following a lengthy legal battle, have now united their F1 team with their car manufacturing operation.
Other teams with affiliations to car manufacturers are Caterham (formerly Lotus) and Marussia (formerly Virgin) – both teams which first entered the sport in 2010.
The independents
Of the rest, Williams have been active the longest, but are mired in their worst-ever losing streak.
World champions, Red Bull, and their young driver training school Toro Rosso, are financed by the vast sums Dietrich Mateschitz has made selling cans of energy drinks.
Force India are entering their fifth season but it remains to be seen whether the problems affecting parts of Vijay Mallya’s financial empire will have an effect on his F1 team.
Having been briefly taken over by BMW, Sauber are an independent team once more. Owner Peter Sauber was enticed back to the sport when the team he created threatened to disappear at the end of 2009.
And finally there’s HRT, who only made it into the sport by the skin of their teeth in 2010 when Grupo Hispania took over Adrian Campos’s entry, and changed hands again last year. We wait to see if 2012 will see the team continue their tradition of shaking down their new car at the first race of the season.
Lost names
Toyota: arrived in 2002, left in 2009, now returning to Le Mans
Running a Formula 1 team is a fearfully expensive business even for those running around at the back of the field. The casualties of the 2002-2011 period include names like Arrows and Minardi, who spent decades in the sport and started hundreds of races.
Other lost names include Jordan, BAR, Renault, Jaguar, Arrows, Minardi, Toyota, Honda, BMW-Sauber, Midland, Super Aguri, Spyker, Brawn and Virgin.
What does the future hold for the current 12 entrants – one-quarter of which have changed names over the winter? Do they have what it takes to last another decade in F1? And is the high rate of turnover among teams bad for the sport?
Cast your vote in the poll and have your say in the comments.
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F1 teams 2002-2012
This chart shows the championship positions achieved by all the teams that have competed in F1 in the last ten years. Use the controls below to hide or show different teams:
| 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| McLaren | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ferrari | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Red Bull | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mercedes | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Renault | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Force India | 10 | 9 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Williams | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HRT | 11 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toro Rosso | 9 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sauber | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lotus | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virgin | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arrows | 10 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BAR | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BMW Sauber | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brawn | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Honda | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jaguar | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jordan | 5 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Midland | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minardi | 10 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spyker | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Super Aguri | 11 | 9 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toyota | 10 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
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Anti-RBR (@matt2208) said on 20th January 2012, 23:58
Mclaren
&
Ferrari
Are the only two i can see still being there in ten years. Red bull isnt going to be winning ”Team” for much longer, they(RB) will drop out in the next 3 to 5 years. Well i hope so anyway.
Phillip Blueno said on 21st January 2012, 6:42
I don’t agree with this…alot of these teams just changed hands and evolved into new team names, they didn’t completely disintegrate. The only teams whom have completely dissolved were only 2 of them, Toyota ans Super Aguri.
All of these other team names that have shut down still had a tremendous asset value were it is very attractive for another owner to come in and simply by a turn-key operation to enter Formula 1 instead of starting up a team from scratch.
So in essence, it really was only 2 teams which have only shut down in the last decade, and this still shows that Formula 1 does create a tremendous platform for any multi-national company looking to promote their products and/or services.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 21st January 2012, 8:06
I went with Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes. Simply put, I think these 4 will have the finances capable of doing so. Many doubt Red Bull yet they’ve been involved in ‘extreme’ sports for years now and they could really use F1 as their flagship marketing product…as long as they’re successful.
I can’t see Williams around much longer. Sir Frank isn’t exactly a spring chicken and I think the interest in them and management will wane once he’s retired.
IrishF1 (@anto) said on 23rd January 2012, 13:38
Ferrari and Mclaren, yes, Red Bull and Mercedes, most likely. Toro Rosso, probably as long as Red Bull is there. Williams, maybe, but it’s looking less likely with each season. Sauber, quite possibly. HRT, Marussia and maybe Caterham, I seriously doubt it. Not sure about Lotus and Force India though. However as Formula 1 is unpredictable I could end up being completely wrong about most of or some of these assumptions.
WarfieldF1 said on 23rd January 2012, 15:56
Ferrari = Yes, its their DNA
McLaren = Yes, seemingly well financed going forward.
Red Bull = no, its a marketing exercise
Torro Rosso = same as Red Bull
Wiliams = no, too close to the edge
Mercedes = No, accountants will see it off
Force India = No, VJ seems pretty skint according to Indian press
Lotus = No, a venture capital firm and a struggling lotus parent company
Sauber = No, once Peter goes
Marussia = No, see Spyker
HRT = No
Caterham = No, Tonys money will eventually return to Tony.
Upbeat prediction i know!!
Robert (@rob91) said on 14th February 2012, 19:38
I think most will still be around but some will probably change identity.