[Team] Haas: Gene Haas of NASCAR attempting to start F1 team

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Originally Posted by wolfhound

I won't go through the list of teams in F1 that have started up and raced in F1 for more than 5 or 6 years as that is what I would regard as the basis of a succesful F1 team. Of the current F1 teams only 2 of them can be traced directly back to the sixties namely Ferrari and McLaren. Williams started in the early seventies and the current Mercedes squad can be tenuously traced back to Tyrrell. Of the rest they are all of more recent vintage.

I had in mind Tyrrell which started in F1 in 1968 when Ken ran a Matra DFV for Jackie after running Matra F2 and F3 cars in the previous year. Matra left them at the end of 1969, Tyrrell using march 701's until Tyrrell 001 appeared later in 1970 in time for the Oulton Park Gold Cup
Tyrrell of course has gone through a long metamorphosis before becoming what it is now.

Frank Williams of course began in F1 in 1969 when he ran Piers Courage in a private Brabham BT26 Cosworth before going with de Tomaso in 1970. He subsequently used Marches in 1971 before building his own cars later in 1972-3-4-5 then the left over Hesketh's and merging with Walter Wolf.
Frank abandoned that to partner with Patrick Head and begin Williams Grand Prix Engineering, and hired Alan Jones for 1978. This team was the genesis of what is now Frank's Williams F1 team.

After Frank left Wolf Walter then hired Jody as driver and Harvey built the WR1.