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Mercedes-Benz · 1954
Direct fuel injection, desmodromic valve control and two body configurations made Mercedes' 1954 return an immediate championship success.
Lotus · 1958
The tiny front-engined single-seater that introduced Colin Chapman's uncompromising pursuit of lightness to the Formula 1 World Championship.
Lotus · 1967
The debut-winning Lotus that made the Cosworth DFV a structural part of the car and established a new Formula 1 architecture.
Ferrari · 1967
Mauro Forghieri's compact V12 single-seater, shaped for the new three-litre era and immortalised by Chris Amon's 1967 campaign.
McLaren · 1974
Versatile, progressive and unusually long-lived, the M23 turned McLaren into a championship-winning Formula 1 constructor.
Ferrari · 1975
A flat-12, transverse gearbox and carefully centralised mass returned Ferrari to both world titles in 1975.
Tyrrell · 1976
Four small steering wheels, two conventional rear tyres and the only Grand Prix victory ever achieved by a six-wheeled car.
Renault · 1977
Renault's first Formula 1 car and the turbocharged experiment that changed the technical direction of the entire championship.
Lotus · 1978
The black-and-gold ground-effect pioneer that transformed underbody aerodynamics into the 1978 Drivers' and Constructors' titles.
Williams · 1979
Patrick Head's clear interpretation of ground effect gave Williams its first victory and opened the team's championship era.
Brabham · 1983
Gordon Murray's arrow-shaped response to the flat-floor rules paired low mass with BMW turbo power and won Nelson Piquet's second title.
Lotus · 1986
Ayrton Senna's black-and-gold turbo weapon: light, demanding and capable of extraordinary qualifying power from its Renault V6.
McLaren · 1988
15 victories from 16 races, a low-line carbon-composite chassis and the Honda turbo that defined Formula 1's final boosted season.
Ferrari · 1990
Elegant bodywork, a semi-automatic gearbox and six victories made the 641/2 both a title contender and a permanent design object at MoMA.
Williams · 1992
Active suspension, traction control and Renault V10 power: the technological benchmark that gave Williams both 1992 world titles.
Benetton · 1994
A compact, agile chassis built around Michael Schumacher's driving delivered Benetton's first Drivers' World Championship.
McLaren · 1998
Adrian Newey's first complete McLaren mastered the narrow-track regulations and restored both world titles to Woking.
Ferrari · 2004
15 victories, a final-generation three-litre V10 and the car that carried Michael Schumacher to his seventh world title.
Renault · 2005
The balanced, reliable V10 car that gave Fernando Alonso and Renault both 2005 World Championships.
McLaren · 2008
Six victories, relentless aerodynamic development and the car that carried Lewis Hamilton to his first world title by a single point.
Brawn GP · 2009
The double-diffuser car that emerged from Honda's withdrawal and won both championships in Brawn GP's only season.
Red Bull Racing · 2013
The final and most dominant evolution of Vettel's blown-exhaust Red Bulls: 13 wins and nine consecutive victories in 2013.
Mercedes · 2020
13 victories, 15 pole positions and a seventh consecutive double championship from the benchmark of Formula 1's hybrid era.
Red Bull Racing · 2023
21 victories from 22 races and 860 points: the car that delivered the most dominant season in Formula 1 history by win percentage.
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