Constructors that wrote history

Ferrari

In 1950, the Formula 1 World Championship was established, and Scuderia Ferrari entered in this first season. It is the only team to have competed in every season of the World Championship, from its inception to the current day. In fact the Ferrari team missed the first race of the championship, the 1950 British Grand Prix, due to a dispute about the start money paid to entrants, and the team debuted in the in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix.
Bernie Ecclestone - The only team who have been consistent are Ferrari, because they have been there from day one. So we don't want to lose Ferrari.

Cooper

Forever changed the convention of where a Formula 1 car's engine was situated, and a lot more besides. After a breakthrough victory with a tiny car at the Argentina Grand Prix in 1958, the days of front-engined cars were numbered. It also heralded the domination of Formula 1 by specialist assemblers, using bought-in components, for next 20 years.

McLaren

Bruce McLaren brought his team into Grand Prix Racing in 1966 and within two years he had joined his former Cooper team-mate Jack Brabham in the exclusice club of men who have won Grands Prix in cars bearing their own name.
Tragically, Bruce never lived to see the colossus that his team came to be. He was killed testing his own car at Goodwood in 1970. By the late 70s the team had lost its technical impetus, and its sponsor Marlboro arranged for a merger between McLaren and Project 4, run by Ron Dennis. Designer John Barnard then produced the first carbon-fibre Formula 1 car which established the new era McLaren as a serious competitive force. During the 80s and 90s McLaren with TAG-Porsche power and later with Honda dominated the sport.

Williams

Frank Williams founded the team that came to dominate Formula 1 for much of the 80s and 90s in 1977. A keystone to its success was his chief designer Patrick Head.
The FW07 of 1979 gave the team its first victory, at the British Grand Prix, with Clay Regazzoni. Alan Jones gave the team its first World championship in 1980 and Keke Rosberg took the last ever DFV-powered title in 1982. A Williams-Renault driver was Champion in 1992-93 and 1996-97.
Frank Williams overcame great odds to become pre-eminent in Grand Prix racing, gratifying a passion that lasted through bleak periods and a crippling road accident in 1986.

Lotus

Colin Chapman was the founding genius of Lotus, arguably the most influential and innovatite team in Grand Prix history.
The Lotus 25 of 1962 was was the first Formula 1 car to feature monocoque construction. The Lotus 49 of 1967 used the new Cosworth DFV engine as a structural part of the car, another highly progressive feature. The wedge-shaped Lotus 72 of 1970 resolved the conflicting requirements of downforce and low drag. The ground-effect Lotus 79 dominated the 1978 World Championship.
Colin Chapman died late in 1982. The team never fully recovered, though it did subsequently enjoy a spell of success with Ayrton Senna in a Renault turbo engined car.

Brabham

After winning two World Championships with Cooper Jack Brabham found the team's impetus running out in the seasons that followed. For 1962, he decided to branch out on his own, and his name Brabham team became one of the core teams, using bought - in components in the way Cooper had pioneered - that came to dominate the sport in that era.
In 1966 Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Grand Prix in a car bearing his own name and this was the foundation for winning the World Drivers' and Constructors' Championships of that year.

Tyrrell

Ken Tyrrell has a fine record of achievement in racing and has proved to be one of the great stayers in the Grand Prix world. He has shown an exceptional ability to talent spot drivers. He has battled on when a decline followed success, often with minimal backing and sometimes self-financed. The team remained a major force in early 70s.
A six-wheeler in 1976 gave the team lots of publicity as well as a 1-2 at the Swedish Grand Prix, but it was never repeated. Team enjoyed some success, but the glory days of Jackie Stewart's era were over.
The team was struggling to generate commercial backing as Formula 1 entered to the more expensive age and was finally bought out at the end of 1997. Ken Tyrrell died in 2001, aged 77, and the Formula 1 world mourned one of the last direct links to an earlier era.

BRM

British Racing Motors was the brainchild of Raymond Mays with financial and resource contributions from British industry. The resulting car would advertise British engineering excellence to the rest of the world through the medium of Formula 1 racing.
The 1.5-litre formula of 1961-65 marked the team's glory years. In 1962 Graham Hill won the World Championship and in 1965 Jackie Stewart took his first Grand Prix victory.
Mistakes were repeated when the 3-litre formula was introduced, as the team has produced a heavy and inefficient H16. In the early 70s the team was under-funded and lacking direction. Its last Grand Prix appearance came in 1977.

Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo's last Grand Prix ventures failed to live up to the reputation of the Italian marque that was once one of the greatest in racing with legendary cars in the mid-20s and early 30s, and the model from the late 30s was to dominate the early World Chapionship years gained by men of great calibre Nino Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio.
The team was withdrawn at the end of 1951. In 70s revived to contest sports car races and produced a 3-litre flat-12 engine that was adopted by Brabham for Formula 1 in 1976. The return to Grand Prix racing in 1979 showed some promise but there was none of the old glory. In 1985 its drivers Ricardo Patrese and Eddie Cheever scored no points and the programme was canceled.