Formula 1 has been running since 1950, which means it has seen around 1,000 races across six decades on different circuits.
Hundreds of teams have entered that first corner, hoping to make F1 history, but only some of them have done it.
A grand pix history requires the fastest car, the right driver, a pit crew that doesn’t make mistakes, and a strategy that outperforms every other competitor.
Out of the 170 constructors that have ever entered a Formula 1 World Championship race, only 5 have won more than 100 Grands Prix in total.
Yes, just five teams, out of 170. The rest of them either couldn’t reach that point or couldn’t sustain it for a long time.
Top 5 Constructors With Most Grand Prix Victories
| Sr. No. | Constructor | Grand Prix Wins | Constructors’ Titles |
| 1 | Ferrari | 249 | 16 |
| 2 | McLaren | 203 | 10 |
| 3 | Mercedes | 137 | 8 |
| 4 | Red Bull | 127 | 6 |
| 5 | Williams | 114 | 9 |
1. Ferrari
Ferrari is the only team to have competed in every single Formula 1 season since the championship began in 1950. Not even one season missed in over 75 years. No other team is even close to that record. Ferrari is like a character who never leaves the Formula 1 story.
Ferrari has around 249 race victories, 16 Constructors’ Championships and 15 Drivers’ Championships won by nine different drivers.
Ferrari won races in the 1950s with Juan Manuel Fangio, then in the 1970s with Niki Lauda. They also won with Gilles Villeneuve, who is one of the most naturally gifted drivers the sport has ever seen, with Jody Scheckter and lastly with Michael Schumacher.
Ferrari’s most recent Constructors’ Championship was 2008, which means they’re now approaching two decades without a title, despite regularly winning races. Right now, in 2026, Lewis Hamilton is in the team, trying to end this decade’s drought.
2. McLaren
McLaren was founded in 1963 by a New Zealand racing driver named Bruce McLaren. He was 26 years old. He built cars, raced them himself, and turned a small operation into one of the sport’s most famous names.
Bruce McLaren died in a car testing accident in 1970, but the team he built went on to become the second most successful constructor in Formula 1 history.
It has around 203 race wins,10 Constructors’ Championships, and 13 Drivers’ Championships.
The golden era of McLaren came between the mid-1980s and early 1990s, when McLaren assembled the most dominant driver lineup.
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna were teammates from 1988 to 1989 in the same garage, fighting each other and destroying the competition.
In 1988, McLaren won 15 of 16 races with Senna winning 11, and Prost winning 6 in the same. Then came the long drought, 26 years without a Constructors’ title. The team that once won 15 of 16 races was finishing behind midfield teams.
But then, in the grid in 2023, McLaren rebuilt their car, their structure, and their results round by round. In 2024, Lando Norris took his maiden F1 win in Miami, Oscar Piastri added two more, and McLaren ended the season with their first Constructors’ title since 1998.
Then in 2025, they defended the title like anything. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri each won seven races, making them the first McLaren teammates to win 7 races in a season since 1988.
3. Mercedes
Mercedes has won its best races in the 1950s with Juan Manuel Fangio, who is arguably the greatest driver of that era. After that, they disappeared for a while, but then returned properly in 2010 after buying the Brawn GP outfit. And then, in 2014, when F1 switched to a new engine format called the V6 turbo hybrid, Mercedes had a car so far ahead of everyone else that the sport became almost unwatchable for anyone who wasn’t a Mercedes fan.
Between 2014 and 2021, Mercedes won 8 consecutive Constructors’ Championships, one of the longest winning streaks in F1 history.
137 wins are third on this list, but those wins were packed into a short period of dominance. Mercedes did in 8 seasons what Ferrari and McLaren took over five decades to build toward. The new engine regulations arriving in 2026 will test whether they can do it again or not.
4. Red Bull
Red Bull Racing started as a sponsor before it became a full-fledged F1 team. The Austrian energy drink company bought out the Jaguar Racing outfit in 2004 and, within five years, they had turned it into the dominant force in the sport.
127 race wins, 6 Constructors’ Championships. But these numbers don’t fully capture the essence of what Red Bull did between 2010-13 under designer Adrian Newey, and again between 2022-24 with Max Verstappen.
From 2010 to 2013, Sebastian Vettel won four consecutive Drivers’ Championships with Red Bull. Then Max Verstappen arrived, and Sebastian Vettel’s record lasted a decade.
In 2022, Max Verstappen won 15 races for Red Bull in a single season. In 2023, he won 19 of 22 races, and during that time, Red Bull went on a 15-race consecutive winning streak, the longest in F1 history.
Ferrari took 50 years to win 200 races. Red Bull reached over 120 wins in just 20 seasons.
5. Williams
Williams is one of the most unusual but impressive teams on the list. Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull are all backed by some of the largest corporations in the world, but Williams, for most of its history, was a small British team built by just one man, Sir Frank Williams.
Frank Williams had a near-fatal car accident in 1986, leaving him confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He attended Grands Prix in that wheelchair until his final years.
The team he built won 9 Constructors’ Championships. 114 race wins. 7 Drivers’ Championships and their best period came between 1980 and 1997, when Williams won the Constructors’ title in 1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 1997.
The 1992 Williams FW14B, driven by Nigel Mansell, is one of the most technically advanced cars of its era, featuring active suspension and a semi-automatic gearbox.
Williams hasn’t won a single race since the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix. They haven’t won a championship since 1997, which is around 30 years.
The sport has changed around them, budgets have exploded, factory teams have taken over, and Williams has struggled to keep the pace, but their place in history remains the same.
