The Most Successful F1 Teams of All Time

Going back to Formula One, history will tell you that the first world championship was hosted in the year 1950. However, it was not until eight years later that the now-famous Constructor's Title took place. Not a lot of people know that the Constructor's Championship was not always called by this name.

Back then, it was known as the International Cup for F1 Manufacturers. Before the community stuck on that name, there were quite a few name and rule changes as well. If you are interested in knowing about some of the most successful teams, here are two of the best in all of F1's history.

Ferrari:

Ferrari has almost become synonymous with Formula One successes and stands its ground quite firmly. This is one of the teams that have the most Constructor title wins and Driver title wins in F1 history. Ferrari's team was the first one to celebrate their 1000^th race at the Tuscan Grand Prix in 2020. It has been a force to be reckoned with since 1961 when it won its first Constructors' Title with Richie Ginther, Wolfgang Von Trips, and Phil Hill leading their lineup.

The next win for Ferrari was in the year 1964 against RBM as John Surtees, their leading Driver that year, secured his only title. During the whole decade of the 1970s, Ferrari secured four Constructors' titles, with Niki Lauda leading the team along with Clay Regazzoni and Carlos Reutemann later. In 1979, Gilles Villeneuve and Jody Scheckter helped Ferrari win these titles again, with both of them finishing first and second in the same year.

Two more consecutive titles were secured in 1982 and 1983; however, Ferrari could not secure the Driver's championship in both these years. After this, there was a dry spell, and Ferrari could not secure a title for the next 16 years until 1999 when they once again showed their dominance on the tracks. Since then, they went on to win six consecutive titles under the team heads Ross Brawn and Jean Todt. This era also proved Michael Schumacher's expertise on the track with 5 drivers' titles in a row.

However, after this, Ferrari again did not see much success during the next decade with only two wins in the years 2007 and '08. In the 2007 championship, Kimi Raikkonen won the Drivers' Championship. Although they have been quite frequently the front-runners throughout the 2010s, they have not been able to break the dominance of their rivals ever since then.

Williams:

The second most successful F1 team in all of history has been Williams. They entered the races as a full-time constructor in the year 1978 but weren't very lucky. It took them a total of three years with Patrick Head as the designer developing the car and Frank Williams as the owner, to claim their first drivers' and constructors' titles.

Carlos Reutemann and Alan Jones formed the Driver's lineup in the year 1980 and won another title in the following year. Keke Rosberg won the Drivers' title along with Ford in 1982; however, could not win another constructors' championship till 1986 and 1987 when they used a Honda engine. Nevertheless, in the next decade, they secured five constructors' titles in only six seasons with a Renault engine.

Quite to the surprise of the audience, four Williams driver's won the drivers' title within that time as well. The names included Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Jacques Villeneuve, and Damon Hill. Although in 1994, their driver, Ayrton Senna, was tragically killed only in the third race, they were able to secure the win eventually.

In 1996, with Michael Schumacher joining Ferrari, Williams was able to come back on top along with Damon Hill and his teammate Jacques Villeneuve. Hill also took the drivers' championship win, and the team took home the constructors' title for the year.

The next year as well, Williams was in the lead for winning both the titles, but there was a sudden change of fate when Adrian Newey left to go to McLaren, and Renault stopped offering their engines to the company. Although Williams is highly revered in the community, they have never been able to reach the heights that they scaled back in the day.