Timeline: Ferrari to ‘Stake’ – the 33 historic identities of Formula 1’s 10 teams · RaceFans

For some Formula 1 teams, changing identity has become almost routine.

Four of them have altered their names at least twice within the last decade. That includes two teams who have changed their names for the 2024 F1 season.

At least F1 fans no longer need worry about mixing up their ‘Alfas’ with their ‘Alphas’, as neither Alfa Romeo nor AlphaTauri will feature on the grid. But exactly what they’ve been replaced with is a unclear – one of them has indicated two different names for its operation, while the other has only revealed a ‘placeholder’ name.

At the other extreme is the handful of teams which have never changed names. Some of those have retained the same identity for decades and built a heritage of such value that even incoming owners have thought better of changing the name above the door. First among these is obviously Ferrari, the only team to have contested all 74 F1 seasons to date.

So while four teams have always had the same name, the other six have had 29 different identities between them. Here’s what each of them has been known as through the years.

Timeline: The previous identities of F1’s 10 teams

Hover over each line for more information on each team:

Notes:

• Honda, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, Renault and Lotus previously competed as other teams
• Force India attempted to rebrand as Racing Point in mid–2018 but it chassis name was only changed the following year

Red Bull

Identities: 3

Three-times world champion Jackie Stewart created the Milton Keynes-based team which now competes as Red Bull. It lasted just three years in its original incarnation, during which it scored its first victory, before Ford chose to use it as the team for its performance brand Jaguar.

This also proved relatively short-lived and by the end of 2005 the team was up for sale. In stepped Red Bull brand co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz who purchased the team and appointed Christian Horner who transformed it into the powerhouse operation it is today.

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Mercedes

Identities: 4

The same driver who founded the team which became Red Bull was the man to beat in the early seventies for Tyrrell. The team never enjoyed the same sustained success after Stewart’s retirement at the end of 1973, but were still winning races a decade later. By the time Stewart’s team arrived in F1, however, Tyrrell was on…