10 F1 teams that collapsed mid-season

[@LRShooooya0607]

Super Aguri collapsing was probably the worst and best thing that happened to Sato’s career. I mean, look how successful he is at Indycar!

[@psykkomancz]

Exactly my thinking. Two Indy 500 wins are no small feat.

[@IvyLeather13]

He's brilliant in that series.

[@GeriatricFan1963]

To be fair, a fair few of the staff from Super Aguri went on to form the Aguri Formula E team, which eventually was purchased by Chinese Media Capital and rebranded as double reigning champions Techeetah, so it actually worked out pretty well for Super Aguri outside of F1 as well.

[@Ramtamtama]

@@GeriatricFan1963 should've been name Super Agur-E. But you know what they say - Kah-CHEETAH!

[@brillemans66]

That livery was actually sick! Totaly forgot about their existence.

[@TomBrooksMedia]

"The last forty years" *Shows picture of Forti* Well played, editor.

[@gunnergav]

Ahh forti the team that brought the 107% qualifying rule in. Lapped so many times it was like there where 'forti' of them on track. 🤣

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

Get out. Here's the like.

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@gunnergav take my upvote and get lost

[@Kismaci0913]

@@gunnergav SIUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@issacc2262]

here’s a fun fact: both drivers, Pedro Diniz and Roberto Moreno, finished the 1995 Argentine and San Marino race unclassified because they were lapped so many times due to how crap the car was lmao

[@dylansmit3883]

You forgot the biggest joke in F1. It's not Andrea Moda, it's Life Racing Engines. The team that ran dangerous FIRST chassis which had failed the crash test, a broad arrow W12 with barely more than 400 hp at its best and overall speed akin to an F3 car. In Brazil the mechanics never even put oil in the engine and Gary Brabham crunched to a halt in pit lane. The team never pre-qualified and folded ahead of the infamous 1990 Japanese Grand Prix.

[@jackcrola1076]

I agree that Life had the worst car in F1 history, but Andra Moda was the more poorly run team, hence why Andrea Moda is seen as the worst team in F1 history, but Life is a close second don’t get me wrong.

[@deeznoots6241]

Calling Life Racing a team is a stretch, they were a bunch of idiots with what can arguably be called a car

[@dylansmit3883]

@Ram Attack They ask for any additions at the end of the video. That's what this is.

[@dylansmit3883]

@@jackcrola1076 I guess you're right in the sense that Ernesto Vita never antagonized his drivers or F1 at large. It was just massive ignorance and incompetence. Using an old chassis that was deemed "a deathtrap" by its designer is pretty dubious though.

[@RAPTOR9698]

I guess they didn't prequalify for this video

[@blazi2293]

Racing Point 2020: let's copy the best car from last year Super Aguri 2006: let's copy a 4 years old backmarker car that didn't even finish the season

[@CapHowdy]

They didn't copy it though. They outright bought the original chasis and design. Very different situation. Much like the first Toro Rosso car was an older Red Bull chassis. From what I remember, the Toro Rosso was the final time that was allowed as the rules were changed to stop teams running older chassis' from other teams.

[@blainy-o93]

Super Aguri 2007: Let's run last year's Honda then spend most of the season ahead of them.

[@kimnice]

I find it impressive that Sato was only 4 seconds slower than M. Schumacher in Q1 + he finished the first race. Interestingly their results didn't get better when they got their new car ready..

[@patrickracer43]

Super Aguri pulled the ultimate big brain move

[@transformersguy234]

@@CapHowdy From 2010 was the first Toro Rosso that the team actually designed themselves, the STR1-STR4 were all Red Bulls that were adapted to fit the Ferrari engine the team were running at the time.

[@maxleitschuh7076]

You wonder what might have become of Super Aguri if they'd survived and made it to 2009. Supposedly the double diffuser idea that took Brawn to the championship actually originated at Super Aguri. After the team shut down their (tiny) design team got absorbed by Honda, which is how the idea made it to Honda/Brawn.

[@ciello___8307]

I feel like money would still be a problem for them. maybe they would become another team and get bought out?

[@lgndk11r]

Maybe be the Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri to Honda? We'll never know.

[@ciello___8307]

@@lgndk11r thats exactly what they were lol

[@dangerdean9066]

But Brawn became Mercedes in 2010 which was the beginning of the era: Sebastien Vettel

[@Flared]

Fun fact: the 1995 Forti Corse was the last F1 car to enter a race with a manual transmission.

[@mafiousbj]

I somehow respect more your Astolfo profile pic that this piece of fun trivia ^^

[@MrSkeleton131]

@Ram Attack how would you describe it then? a depressing fact?

[@Ramtamtama]

@@MrSkeleton131 not depressing, just a fact. Although I make it both QI-able and pub quizzable. Oh, I loves me some pub quizzable facts

[@LastOnSunday]

So, according to car enthusiasts everywhere, it was the last true drivers car in F1.

[@goldinho]

I thought it was fun... 😂

[@adamigo1000]

Oh! What a wonderful piece! The Race channel is on a great streak recently. Keep on great work!

[@omgHeadshots]

The Race always has good shit, just a group of proper motorsport fans

[@nicolasgarcia8608]

yes they only got wrong 3 out of ten teams.

[@roryevans4295]

I used to love arrows as a kid simply because they were orange 😂

[@nettlecider]

Didn't we all .D

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

Me, but with Jaguar.

[@roryevans4295]

@@joshuagabrielcatindig7607 I only support redbull because they were jag 😂

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

@@roryevans4295 fair. And now, I'm behind Aston Martin.

[@bigguy8435]

I used to love Jordan, because i liked the yellow cars

[@PG-20]

I always liked the little underdog teams. Especially Minardi and Arrows. I loved how the drivers were able to drag results out of the subpar machinery.

[@janikakis]

That AGS livery @1:36 looks like Alonso's 2020 helmet design!

[@Kismaci0913]

Alonso is Italian.

[@ferestrod3242]

@@Kismaci0913 he's spanish

[@Kismaci0913]

@@ferestrod3242 Alonso is Italian.

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

Is there something going on with HAAS or Williams that we don't know about?

[@Karunaaa]

Yeah those were my first thoughts too lmao, thought I'd missed some major news or something

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

@@Karunaaa HAAS saying finances as the reason for getting new drivers makes it even more worrying

[@peterfighter]

Mercedes

[@i8ittoo]

yeah , williams new owner wants paid drivers to keep money cot as low as they can . so out with RUSSELL . just a guess oh , one they forgot . Ferrari 2020 .

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

@@i8ittoo I mean Russell is basically guaranteed the next open Mercedes seat so it wouldn't be that serious

[@syedbilalnafees2002]

Must be sad to make it all the way up to F1 and have to quit mid season

[@Ramtamtama]

'Tis better to have F1'd and failed than to have never F1'd at all

[@aslamnurfikri7640]

Lola Mastercard disappeared at the start of season

[@4192362]

failed to qualify in one race melbourne1997

[@CHERN0BYLCH1LD]

MasterCard Lola folded halfway through qualifying

[@Ramtamtama]

@@CHERN0BYLCH1LD the team made it to Interlagos, only to then be told they'd withdrawn on Wednesday 26th March 1997. So the staff and cars just sat in the garage for a few days. The T97/30 was an IndyCar adapted to F1 regs, using the engines Forti had been using until their demise. Not 1997-spec, 1996-spec. And their stated aim was to beat Stewart...

[@CHERN0BYLCH1LD]

@@Ramtamtama they definitely should have waited till 1998 like they were originally going to, they might have stood a chance

[@LoganHunter82]

@@CHERN0BYLCH1LD Blame the main sponsor, Mastercard, for the teams rushed launch in 1997.

[@iskandartandiono]

Arrows - Verstappen - Bernoldi. Is the combination I missed a lot

[@thesfdoctor3603]

Verstappen - de la Rosa*

[@nathanjansen2695]

@@thesfdoctor3603 de la rosa diserved a top or sup top team after his Arrows time

[@zupperm]

That Simtek always looks so nice.

[@AndreiTupolev]

It was a pity about Super Aguri. Aguri Suzuki seemed a thoroughly nice bloke.

[@TheGreatWhite99]

Caterham having to be crowdfunded to take part in the last race of 2014 would have been a good dishonorable mention 😂

[@reptongeek]

The sad thing about Force India - the team that began as Jordan - collapsing was it happened five days before the 20th anniversary of its first win at Spa Francorchamps

[@babyfmusicprods]

So most of them are Italians? Classic! 😂😂😂 (I'm Italian too)

[@Fujibayashi50]

@Deadpool "Noo, Italians dont't make jokes about themselves, therefore you are not Italian'

[@babyfmusicprods]

@Deadpool Prima cosa: non ho tempo da perdere con ste cazzate. Seconda cosa: Il mio era un commento ironico, perché mi fa specie che in questo video la metà dei team sono italiani. Terza e ultima cosa: mi dispiace se ti sia sentito offeso da questo commento ma le mie intenzioni erano ben altre. Prendiamola alla leggera, il motorsport dovrebbe unire non dividere. alla fine noi fans siamo una comunità. Vogliamoci bene. Peace! ✌️😎

[@DSL_Returns]

@Deadpool cringe

[@lisciatoredimele8919]

@Deadpool Datti all'ippica

[@leovadon]

@Deadpool ma stai zitto “kid”

[@martinh88]

Damon Hill was a beast around the Hungaroring. Did well there every year.

[@bzilla-d4i]

Damn I miss the Arrows team

[@Nessafox4670]

Some teams from the last 40 years that could be added: Fondmetal, Spirit, RAM, Theodore, EuroBrun

[@juancete0107]

Life

[@Yuggoth87]

there was really a team called RAM ?? Awesome

[@Nessafox4670]

@@Yuggoth87 Oh yeah, their 1984 and 1985 skoal/bandit liveries are gorgeous.

[@AndreiTupolev]

These small teams and backmarkers added some colour to the scene, as many of them had some very nice looking cars and colour schemes. Nowadays everything all looks exactly the same

[@SmallBlogV8]

That livery at 1:35 is just like Fernando's recent helmet design!

[@NickArvan]

0:37 the moment you realize that Uralkali and Sofina both appeared to the 2018 Force India/Racing Point nose.

[@purwantiallan5089]

For me Simtek, Super Aguri, Arrows, and Andrea Moda are the ones i remembered the most.

[@TR12365]

Similar to how every team thinks they will win when the 2022 rule changes come in. But it’s not mathematically possible.

[@Naman.Khivsara]

Yeah these teams would be the perfect example of why f1s business model isn't successful, it only works if you have a ton of money, and now each new teams entering they need to pay 20 million dollars to each team to compensate them

[@reynaldiwidjaja277]

*200

[@kalyankothekar]

Grand Prix racing was never meant for the poor. After 90s and 2010s disaster, F1 will never accept poor racing teams who cannot committ for long time and has no resources to be competitive. Although the costs are coming down from next year so we should see more auto manufacturers lurking soon.

[@Jimaybob]

@@reynaldiwidjaja277 20 million to each team Is 200 million total. Learn to read

[@reynaldiwidjaja277]

@@Jimaybob ah sorry about that I'm blind

[@Dischingo]

@@jeanwamana would it though?

[@Leebo13]

For mine it's Arrows because their collapse was precipitated by their deal with Jaguar (who were owned by Ford at the time) to run Cosworth engines signed in 2001 which caused the whole Walkinshaw operation to go out of business which meant that the Holden Racing Team in the Australian V8 championship were scrambling to find new owners at the start of 2003 (manufacturers are banned from owning teams in the ATCC) thanks to a deal with Ford.

[@williamford9564]

There was a lot more to the Andrea Moda story. Sassetti intentionally sabotaged any attempts by Perry McCarthy to run the car in practice and qualifying as he wanted to replace McCarthy with another driver with lots of cash behind him. In one race he was sent out to qualify with wet weather tires on a dry track. The next race he left the garage for the first time 45 seconds before the end of qualifying which did not leave enough time to come around before the red flag fell ending the session.

[@Ramtamtama]

don't forget the whole trying-to-kill-him-at-Spa

[@timc9635]

I'm amazed by the fact that HRT somehow managed to survive 3 full seasons

[@STREET24000]

The 2012 livery looked pretty good.

[@k2477-o3n]

I wasn’t emotionally prepared to hear the statement “in the last forty years so we’re excluding 1980”

[@marlenebinder148]

great content my dudes!

[@Olivyay]

FYI I wanted to lookup that track owned by AGS and if anybody else also wants to, it's called "Circuit du Var Luc", and is located near "Le Luc", which pronounciation in French is actually closer to "le luhk" than "le loo" or "le look" as is pronounced in this video.

[@4192362]

those Orange Arrows are 🧡🧡🧡

[@PedroFTeixeira]

I miss the idea of a chassis maker putting something together.. put an engine in the back and go racing. Much more interesting than now a days.

[@ost2life]

No. You're wrong. F1 is more exciting and engaging than ever. Now, go vote for your favourite driver (charges apply)

[@oscarshen6855]

No, they were like 10 seconds off the pace, didn't add anything to the show, the only time they got screen time was when they cause problems while being lapped. We should appreciate the quality of current grid, at least every car get a shot of point if something happens.

[@CapHowdy]

When you consider how much people take the piss out of Williams (and the Ferrari engine cars this year) for being the back markers who often end on the same lap or one lap down, how was teams that would end a race four laps down be more interesting? The simple fact they had to bring in pre-qualifying because of how bad most of those teams were, speaks volumes of why rules changed to stop that as it was making a mockery of the sport.

[@CapHowdy]

@@oscarshen6855 Yup. Nobody needs mobile chicanes that end up four laps down every race or fails to even qualify.

[@MikuFan3931]

There was also the Lola team.

[@whassupg89]

I’m struggling to pick a favourite from these. Love rubbish F1 teams

[@juhosten3463]

Many of them aren't even rubbish. Just poor. I remember reading that experts reckoned that arrows' chassi for next year was good enough to fight for top spots. Many of these are very promising teams with great desirners. Then they eventually run out of money

[@Willful_Underdog]

An interesting fact about Simtek: The company didn't only produce the S921 for Andrea Moda, but had also built a mule version of the S931 in 1993 for the stillborn Bravo F1 team, via influences of some BMW workers. Though very little is known about the Spanish entrant even to this day.

[@manoliswec5674]

i was expecting a video that shows 10 big teams that somehow mid season lost the hopes for the title.

[@AnsoyTheFox]

4:15 Just a minor correction, Onyx was not founded by Jean Pierre van Rossem, it was founded by Mike Ealre and Greg Field, van Rossem was only the majority owner of the team before the 1989 season. But he was the stain, that led to the demise of Onyx.

[@Riutanharju]

They built Monteverdi F1 650 sports car from the surplussed F1 car parts of Onyx/Monterverdi team.

[@jmpetersson]

Onyx / Monteverdi being my favorite

[@avflashback8913]

They forgot about Pacific GP a team that ran in 1994. There has never been livery that was as 90's as that car.

[@MrSniperfox29]

No they didn't, Pacific Racing ran two complete seasons before closing down after the 1995 season.

[@ThorburnJ]

Saw this appear in my feed and tfirst though was "Oh god, which team has gone under?"

[@jacekatalakis8316]

As pointed out on an Indycar broadcast, AGS actually used to remove the rev counter from their cars because....I dunno why. It was mentioned by the US TV crews when discussing the amount of workload the Indycar drivers were going through and how AGS went totally the opposite way Also, Andrea Moda showed up in Indycar in 1993 getting a top 5 in a wild Detroit race, the same one Mansell crashed out of thanks to an errant safety truck

[@AntneeUK]

I own a Silicon Graphics Octane machine that came from Arrows F1. Unfortunately there was nothing interesting on the hard drive, but still, some vaguely related history

[@sherqyanstromain9580]

That first ags livery is gorgeous

[@Uniongamers]

I cringed so hard at that joke. 0:27

[@stupidflandrs4856]

The last time I was this early, Super Aguri still existed

[@pointlesscine]

3:00 Wow, that dude looks just like Zak Brown

[@SamGreeneRacing]

It feels weird that 1980 was 40 years ago

[@sebastianochs7603]

0.28: Last Forti years... I see what you did there!

[@koritec4151]

Please scale down the number of mid-role-ads......your Videos are great btw

[@adamtodd5567]

I was always a fan of the underdog so I followed Minardi and I'm surprised they're not in this list

[@stephenyates962]

They were bought by Red Bull at the end of 2005 to become Toro Rosso, and had always completed each season prior to their sale

[@RACECAR]

That's because they still exist, only now they race as "AlphaTauri" (and before that, were "Toro Rosso"). Still based in Fienza, Italy.

[@FCB001]

Probably cause Minardi didn't collapse, Paul Stoddart sold the team to Red Bull in 2005 and it became Scuderia Toro Rosso, which is now AlphaTauri.

[@acehigh79]

I didn't follow F1 closely when I was younger....however I remember being a fan of the Lotus team when Kimi Raikkonen drove for them.

[@jennyferprus8024]

Team Lola is a interesting Storry as well

[@allandavis8201]

Unfortunately it appears that new teams coming into F1 do it with blinkers on, they underestimate the costs, they lack real sponsorship and the enormous experience that is needed just to put a car on the track in a position where it can perform well enough to get big money rewards from F1 incorporated, the backers of these new team quickly find that their deep pockets aren’t deep enough and don’t or can’t provide the huge amounts needed to run a team, let alone a successful team. I would imagine that the F1 owners make new teams jump huge numbers of hoops before they can even get a car, or two, into the pits, and I have to wonder if that includes delving into teams financial situation, if not then they should, it might save their embarrassment when a team collapses and the team backers/sponsors a lot of money. Thanks for sharing this excellent and entertaining episode, just feel sorry for these failed teams and their dreams of F1 success. Thanks again 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@TheAshleyYoyo]

I always remember the Life F1 team, disastrously hilarious and didn’t even make the last two GPs of 1990 after not making it out of pre-qualifying EVER 😂

[@AdamTheMan1993]

At least Life had a ambitious idea, didn't put faulty parts on the car in an attempt to kill one of your drivers for insurance money and didn't get kicked out of the championship unlike Andrea Moda

[@sgtpepperboi6851]

I think Life and Mastercard Lola are interesting stories, even though they never technically took part in a Grand Prix.

[@Ramtamtama]

I think Aiden Millward's done videos on both of them for his Storytime collection

[@sgtpepperboi6851]

@@Ramtamtama thanks, I'll check these out

[@andrewcutler4513]

Uh... How about USF1? - Didn't even make it to the point of building an entire chassis.

[@MrSniperfox29]

Which means they didn't collapse midseason, as the video is about.

[@Segatron1991]

I only witness Arrows (2002) Super Aguri (2008 I think) and Force India.(2018)

[@cazaguiros]

Prost too, but they collapse after the 2001 season.

[@brendanwilliams7291]

Don’t forget about the Life team, failing to qualify for 14 races in 1990 with Bruno Giacomelli and Gary Brabham.

[@civ5687]

Maybe you could mention? how many cars entered races and how many finished, when you refer to placement at the end of the race. Then I could know whether the car performed well, when it placed well. Thanks.

[@129aslamnurfikrir4]

Watching this after Racing Point won a race, amazing

[@Shrike58]

At the 2006 U.S. Grand Prix me (thanks for the free tickets F1) and a buddy were across from the Super Aguri garage during practice and we could see this well-dress Asian woman stalking around as though she owned the place; I'm presuming that was Mrs. Aguri.

[@neospoilershow2708]

Nice Story, and if it was Mrs. Aguri that must have been a special Weekend for someone, since usually wife’s of people in f1 aren’t usually there(Well what I have seen but I don’t pay attention)

[@TheAwesomeDoritos-te5vs]

I wonder what's this music the one that comes on when they mention Arrows

[@JustinW2980]

People have become fascinated with the alsorans of 1990’s F1.

[@rothotborski]

I do miss the old teams Brabham, Lotus, Tyrrell, (I know it went on to become BAR/Honda/Brawn/Mercedes later, but its not the same) even Arrows and Ligier.

[@brendanwilliams7291]

Another team that was a flop in the end was the Eurobrun team. They only lasted a couple of years before closing at the end of 1989.

[@mooreanonumbers]

A Lola missing downforce... where have I heard this before

[@LoganHunter82]

For some reason, I always thought it was a real shame that Simtek didn't have success in F1.

[@felliphemaciel]

Can one day you talk about the copersucar fittipaldi f1 brazilian team please

[@SolidSonicTH]

Andrea Moda is probably the centerpiece of the F1 Hall of Shame.

[@alfonsocascone6148]

Simtek had one of the most unique liveries in history, what a shame

[@MrSniperfox29]

Van Rossem didn't found Onyx, he bought the shares from Paul Shakespeare who had previously bought the team from Mike Earl and Greg Field.

[@navicto]

Waiting for the top 10 top 10 videos.

[@neospoilershow2708]

You forgot to mention that the main reason why Forti shut down was since Shannon failed to give his part of the deal This is the contract I heard was signed “Within Seven days, Shannon must give funds to Forti” although I can’t remember it. Then they went to court and well Shannon won the case because there “Wasn’t anything to fight over”

[@AlphAriesBoyz666]

Manor racing and Rio Haryanto :(

[@AdzSONLINE]

Caterham as well, the story of those 3 teams is good

[@dangerdean9066]

5:09 *Exhales* mafia

[@Snufflegrunt]

Caterham. I always liked them for some reason.

[@craigmoy5457]

Does Mastercard Lola constitute a mid season collapse since it never started a race......

[@RACECAR]

Not even remotely. That would have meant that they had even made it that far in the season and as we know, that didn't happen.

[@javiergarrido6088]

Simtek was an unfortunate team, and Super Aguri was screwed by SS united company and Honda.

[@EddieVanAidan]

I definitely watched F1 in 2006 yet I don’t recall seeing a Midland F1 car at any point, other than in the ps2 game

[@Ramtamtama]

That's because of how dull their livery was. It just... blended into the track. I think the only time you might've actually spotted one would've been when it was upsidedown after Yuji Ide flipped Christijan Albers at Imola

[@PAXTONF1ob]

Remember when every guy who had a dream, a bit of cash and a half-raceable car could make it into the entry list? Good times. Now after every season the cars are deemed useless and left gathering dust somewhere. How awesome would it be for a team to buy a previous year Sauber or something, put a damn engine at the back and try to qualify. We need customers cars. Create a tier 2 championship for teams that are not constructors, I don't care. Everyone who has a car that passes the crash test and can get into the 107% in qualifying, should be able to race. I don't like this current Ivy League in Grand Prix racing.

[@STREET24000]

If F1 hadn’t switched to the power units they currently use in 2014 there would probably be some new teams trying to enter F1

[@Billiamiscool]

Life and Lola-Mastercard

[@tobydavis1370]

what about manor in 2017 and caterham in 2014?

[@MrSniperfox29]

Caterham did finish the season, they just missed two races.

[@Athrun82]

There are two teams that come to my mind that also vanished during a season (though the second would be very debatable): Euro-Brun was a backmarker team that had some notable results in 1990 (notable for a backmarker team) but didn't took part in the last two races of that season and they never came back. And then there is the March/Leytonhouse team a once reputable team going slowly down the drain (Adrian Newey started his Designer career there). They were nearly dead at the end of 1992 but tried to race in the first race of 1993. They didn't race and the next race they were gone. Not really Midseason I know.

[@MrSniperfox29]

While March were indeed on the entry list for the 1993 season, they never turned up to the first grand prix, so not really "tried to race"

[@Athrun82]

@@MrSniperfox29 Ironicaly their drivers they signed for 1993 turned up at the first race. But the team itself (or at least their material) did not

[@thatfocusguy]

Having Stefan Johansson driving was obviously a curse!

[@AdamTheMan1993]

But he did finish on the podium for Onyx at the 1989 Portuguese grand prix

[@jusra2528]

Where is MasterCard Lola ?

[@trashokahn1445]

Well, funny that this video was on my front page on the day newey is speculated to leave red bull

[@jamesbuckingham77]

Force India to Racing Point wasn't really a collapse per se, just a change of ownership and re naming.

[@LastOnSunday]

Jordan - Midland - Spyker - Force India - Racing Point.

[@LastOnSunday]

@@Bungle2010 just as Alpha Tauri are nothing to do with Torro Rosso? Yes, Force India no longer exists, but come on, did anybody notice any difference between Force India & Racing Point Force India between the 2018 Hungarian GP & the Belgium GP?

[@RACECAR]

@@LastOnSunday While it is technically the same personnel and assets, its not under the same team registry (Which is the important difference here between what is Now Aston Martin F1 and what is now AlphaTauri). AlphaTauri is considered the same team as Minardi in registry because Red Bull bought out the team entirely (Assets, Points and all) and simply renamed it whereas Aston Martin F1 is not considered the same team as Force India because despite the same team members and parts being there, Lawrence Stroll bought only the assets BUT not the team as they were registered (which included the points it had as Force India thus why they started from 0 at Hungary, its also why Andrea Moda was disallowed to compete in the first race in 92 because they entered as a new team using the previous team's assets as opposed to simply renaming the team's entry name and thus needed to pay that $100,000 entry fee that was required by brand new teams ). I know its silly and I'm not arguing they aren't the exact team because in terms of personnel and assets they are but in terms of team registry, Jordan/Midlands/Spyker/Force India is not the same as Racing Point/Aston Martin F1 while Minardi/Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri can be considered the same team because Red Bull simply bought the entire outfit and entered it as the same team just with a brand new name while retaining previous assets personnel and points.

[@lucasmegadethrock1459]

Andrea Moda was also a Forti Corsa sponsor

[@Kismaci0913]

I will always miss the champions @Forti Siuuuuuuuuu

[@louielouie95]

Lola Only Did 1 Race In 1997

[@MrSniperfox29]

Not really mid season then, is it?

[@reggie5]

we need some more Forti Fords back again to add some entertainment to the 2024 season. it's all too smooth these days

[@setiapratamadupi]

Sucks that most of them were improving before folding

[@stefencooke]

Mastercard Lola as there was rushed in to f1 a year earlier then planned by Mastercard if I remember rightly

[@FormulaFrancois]

Seems like most italians teams are destined to struggle in F1.