ATS from Italy

The small italian team Automobili Turismo e Sport was set up by a group of Ferrari defectors late in 1961, headed by designer Carlo Chiti and team manager Romolo Tavoni. The aim was a programme on Ferrari lines, with high-performance road and Grand Prix cars.
Their first Formula 1 car was Tipo 100 with a space frame, independent suspension by wishbones and a twin-OHC V-8 driving through a Colotti Gearbox. With the sound pairing of drivers Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti the prospect for 1963 seemed good. However, the opening races showed the venture to be quite hopeless, no points were scored in either championship and ATS did not appear in 1964 as such, allthough a car substantially rebuilt by Alf Francis was run ineffectualy as Darrington-Francis late that year.

Drivers
Phil Hill, Giancarlo Baghetti

ATS from Germany

This German team was the creation in 1977 of wheel magnate Günther Schmid, a capricious autocrat whose whims affected performances on the circuits and caused a high staff turnover through its eight seasons. Presumably Schmid saw a publicity return for the team's 89 appearances in championship races, and the nine points garnered.
A start was made with the erstwhile Penske car in 1977, and Jean Pierre Jarier drove one to score a point in the first race. For 1978 Schmid acquired the March F1 equipment, and the March standing in FOCA terms. The cars were modified, to become ATS HS-1, while the John Gentry designed ATS D1 was built. That in turn was reworked for 1979, and was to be followed by the Gustav Brunner designed D3 and then D4, ground effects cars.
In 1981 Herve Guilpin designed ATS HGS-1 and a pair of these modified as D5 served through 1982. That was the team's best season. Manfred Winkelhock and Eliseo Salazar each scored two points.
So far ATS has used Cosworth DFVs but for 1983 Gustav Brunner designed the D6 for BMW turbo engines. Built around a carbon-fibre monocoque it was an up-to-the-minute design, outwardly neat and compact. However, the team owner's instant circuit decisions did little to improve its racing changes, and unsettled the team. No points were scored in 1983, and just one in 1984 when the D6 and D7 were driven by Winkelhock and Gerhard Berger in the last season for ATS.

Drivers
1977 Jean-Pierre Jarier
1978 Jean-Pierre Jarier, Alberto Colombo, Hans Binder, Harald Ertl, Jochen Mass, Keke Rosberg, Michael Bleekemolen
1979 Hans-Joachim Stuck
1980 Jan Lammers, Marc Surer, Harald Ertl
1981 Jan Lammers, Slim Borgudd
1982 Eliseo Salazar, Manfred Winkelhock
1983 Manfred Winkelhock
1984 Manfred Winkelhock, Gerhard Berger