F1 Constructors’ Champions list: every winner by year since 1958

Every Constructors’ Champion by year

The Constructors’ Championship is the team title of the World Championship. It has been contested since 1958, and by the end of 2025 it had been won by 15 different teams. The glossary explains it in brief, and the season standings show who is ahead in 2026.

The table shows each champion team and the engine they won with. Team and engine names follow the f1db database. The same name can belong to different teams in different eras: the Mercedes of 1954–1955 and today’s Mercedes, which began as Tyrrell, are two separate teams. The team lineage shows which team used to be which.

Which team has the most Constructors’ titles?

Ferrari have the most: 16, the first in 1961 and the most recent in 2008. McLaren are second with ten, and Williams third with nine. The table is as of the end of 2025.

Six teams have won it once each: Vanwall in 1958, BRM in 1962, Matra in 1969, Tyrrell in 1971, Benetton in 1995 and Brawn in 2009. The very first champions were the British team Vanwall. Lotus in this table means Team Lotus, who raced from 1958 to 1994.

Who has won it several years in a row?

Mercedes have the longest run: eight titles in a row, from 2014 to 2021. The second-longest belongs to Ferrari, with six titles in 1999–2004.

The most recent run is McLaren’s, with the 2024 and 2025 titles. Runs of two seasons are left out of the table.

When the two titles go to different teams

From 1958 to 2025 this happened 12 times: the world champion drove for one team, while another team won the Constructors’ Championship on points. The most recent case was 2024, when Max Verstappen became champion with Red Bull and McLaren took the Constructors’ title.

The champion’s team here is the one they drove for in the most races that season. Every world champion by year is in the article on F1 champions.

The closest finishes

Points systems have changed since 1958, so we measure the margin as a percentage of the champion team’s points. By that measure the closest finish was in 2024: McLaren beat Ferrari by 14 points, 666 to 652, or 2.1%.

From 1958 to 2025 the title was decided at the last race of the season 19 times out of 68. In 2025 McLaren sealed it earlier, in Singapore, at round 18 of 24.

How the Constructors’ Championship works under the 2026 rules

Under the 2026 regulations the title goes to the team with the most points, and the results of both its cars count, in races and in sprints. If a team races with another manufacturer’s engine, the title is still theirs: Brawn won it that way in 2009, and McLaren in 2024 and 2025, both with Mercedes engines. How points are awarded and who ranks higher on a tie is covered in the article on points.

The Constructors’ Trophy is a real FIA trophy. The winner’s name is engraved on it before the start of the next season. The team keeps the trophy for a period set by the FIA, insures it and returns it in the same condition, keeping a replica for itself. The Drivers’ Champion is left with only a replica of their trophy.

Under the regulations, a constructor is whoever designs the key parts of the car or commissions their design and manufacture. The regulations call these parts the Listed Team Components.

How it was scored in the past

The scoring rules have changed over the years. We have not checked the regulations of those years, so below is only what the final standings on the Formula 1 website and in f1db show, plus our own count from f1db.

• Chassis and engine pairs. In the final standings up to and including 1985, a team that scored points with two different engines appears on two lines. In 1966 Brabham with the Repco engine came first, while Brabham BRM and Brabham Climax scored a point each. The last such case was 1985: Tyrrell Ford and Tyrrell Renault. After that, no team scored points with two different engines in one season.
• 1958–1978. By our count from f1db, a team’s points never exceeded what its best-placed car scored race by race, even though both cars often scored in the same race. So only the team’s best car counted.
• From 1979, by the same count, a team’s points equal the total of all its cars — except in a few seasons when a team lost points through a penalty or a change of entry.

That is why points from different eras can’t be compared directly: in 1958 Vanwall won the title with 48 points, and in 2025 McLaren won it with 833.

Why the Constructors’ position matters to teams

A place in the Constructors’ Championship is worth money and development time.

• Prize money. Formula 1 pays the teams from its prize fund mainly by their results in past Constructors’ Championships, most of it by their position in the previous season. A separate share goes to Ferrari for their heritage. In 2025 payments to the teams came to $1.4 billion, not counting one-off payments totalling $50 million for signing the new Concorde Agreement. That is according to the annual report of Liberty Media, which owns the Formula 1 group.
• Wind tunnel and CFD. Under the 2026 regulations, a team’s allowance for aerodynamic testing depends on its Constructors’ position. The team in first place gets 70% of the base allowance, second place 75%, then 5% more for each place, up to 115% for tenth and below and for a new team. For the first half of the year the position is taken from the previous season, and for the second half from the current standings.

Why teams fight even for sixth or seventh place is explained in the chapter “Points and the championship”.