List of drivers that start their own team

[f1-gast]

Well i don't have to do that much, and since im buzzy with making that F1 list i came on the idea of drivers that started their own F1 teams.
Sadly a lot of them failed to have a good team...
This is what i got that far (if you know more please don't be shy and post !)

EL
Active: 1951
(ex) driver name: Erik Lundgren
Points: ?
Wins: ?
Races Competed: ?

SCUDERIA ESPADON
Active: 1951 - 1952
(ex) driver name: Rudolf "Rudi" Fischer
Points: 10
Wins: -
Races Competed: 7

HWM
Active: 1951 - 1954
(ex) driver name: George Abecassis
Points: 2
Wins: -
Races Competed: 21

MOTOR RACING DEVELOPMENTS LTD./Brabham
Active: 1962 - 1992
(Ex) driver name: Jack Brabham
Points: 832
Wins: 35
CC: 2
DC: 4
Races Competed: 402

JOHN LOVE
Active: 1962 - 1967
(ex) driver name: John Maxwell Lineham Love
Points: 6
Wins: -
Races Competed: 4

MCLAREN
Active: 1966 - now
(Ex) driver name: Bruce Mclaren
Points: 3889.5
Wins: 169
CC: 8
DC: 12
Races Competed: 682

SURTEES RACING ORGANISATION
Active: 1970 - 1978
(Ex) driver name: John Surtees
Points: 54
Wins: -
Races Competed: 119

MARCH ENGINEERING
Active: between 1970 and 1992
(ex) driver name: Alan Rees (also Mosley etc but their not ex f1 drivers)
Points: 167,5
Wins: 3
Races Competed: 207

EMBASSY HILL
Active: 1973 - 1975
(ex) driver name: Graham Hill
Points: 4
Wins: -
Races Competed: 41

CHRIS AMON RACING
Active: 1974
(ex) driver name: Chris Amon
Points: -
Wins: -
Races Competed: 4

PINCH PLANT LTD/Lyncar
Active: 1974 - 1975
(ex) driver name: John Nicholson
Points: -
Wins: -
Races Competed: 2

FITTIPALDI AUTOMATIVE/copersugar-fittipaldi
Active: 1975 - 1982
(ex) driver name: Wilson and Emerson Fittipaldi
Points: 44
Wins: -
Races Competed: 119

BRIAN MCGUIRE
Active: 1976 - 1977
(ex) driver name: Brian Mcguire
Points: -
Wins: -
Races Competed: 2

EQUIPE LIGIER
Active: 1976 - 1996
(ex) driver name: Guy Ligier
Points: 388
Wins: 9
Races Competed: 326

MERZARIO
Active: 1977 - 1996
(ex) driver name: Arturo Merzario
Points: -
Wins: -
Races Competed: 39

ARROWS GRANDPRIX INTERNATIONAL/Footwork
Active: 1977 - 2002
(ex) driver name: Jackie Oliver and Alan Rees
Points: 164
Wins: -
Races Competed: 368

TEAM REBAQUE
Active: 1978 - 1979
(ex) driver name: Hector Rebaque
Points: 1
Wins: -
Races Competed: 30

LARROUSSE CALMELS
Active: 1987 - 1994/1995 (not sure if i can count 1995 also as a season for them, they where on the list back then)
(ex) driver name: Gérard Larrousse
Points: 23
Wins: -
Races Competed: 127

PACIFIC RACING LTD (not sure if this is a real team)
Active: 1994 - 1995
(ex) driver name: Bertrand Gachot
Points: -
Wins: -
Races Competed: 40

STEWART GRAND PRIX
Active: 1997 - 1999
(ex) driver name: Jackie Stewart
Points: 47
Wins: 1
Races Competed: 49

PROST GRAND PRIX
Active: 1997 - 2001
(ex) driver name: Alain Prost
Points: 34
Wins: -
Races Competed: 83

JAGUAR RACING (Also not sure if you can count it as a real team)
Active: 2000 - 2004
(ex) driver name: Niki Lauda
Points: 49
Wins: -
Races Competed: 85

SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM
Active: 2005 - 2008
(ex) driver name: Aguri Suzuki
Points: 4
Wins: -
Races Competed: 39

CAMPOS RACING/now hrt
Active: 2010
(ex) driver name: Adrian Campos
Points: -
Wins: -
Races Competed: 16

[f1-gast]

Got work to do so i will finish it later sorry

[Shizuka]

Campos till it got sold.
Prost, even though he just bought - and killed - Ligier.

[Bleu]

Chris Amon
Jack Brabham
Emerson Fittipaldi
Dan Gurney
Graham Hill
Gerard Larrousse
Guy Ligier
Arturo Merzario
Jackie Oliver
Jackie Stewart
John Surtees
Aguri Suzuki

I didn't list Prost since he just bought existing team, but mostly these have started their own from the scratch.

[madmark1974]

Chris Amon
Jack Brabham
Emerson Fittipaldi
Dan Gurney
Graham Hill
Gerard Larrousse
Guy Ligier
Arturo Merzario
Jackie Oliver
Jackie Stewart
John Surtees
Aguri Suzuki

I didn't list Prost since he just bought existing team, but mostly these have started their own from the scratch.

Fittipaldi's team was set up by Wilson Fittipaldi, who also drove the car, then Emerson went there once he left McLaren ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Fittipaldi_J%C3%BAnior

[f1-gast]

But wilson also drove for other teams before he started copersugar-fitti
And as far as i know Emerson was also involved with starting the team, because he wanted to help his brother in his F1 carrier.

[Nessafox]

apollon: loris kessel
penske: roger penske

thoug never raced, maybe worth mentioning:

tiga: tim schenken & howden ganley
first: lamberto leoni

[watka]

Does Lec count as David Purley's team?

[Waris]

If I'm not mistaken, Johnny Claes created the Écurie Belge, which might have become the Équipe Nationale Belge later, but they could also have been separate teams.

Also, Louis Rosier created the Écurie Rosier, but I don't think you should count these kind of teams, because they seem more like privateers entering under a fancy name. (Then you would also have to count Guy Ligier's one-off effort (I think he DNQ'd even) in a Cooper sometime in the sixties when listing Ligier, and those are definitely not the same team.)

[tommykl]

You're right, Claes did create the Ecurie Belge, which later merged with fellow driver Jacques Swaters' Ecurie Francorchamps into the Equipe Nationale Belge.

[Waris]

You're right, Claes did create the Ecurie Belge, which later merged with fellow driver Jacques Swaters' Ecurie Francorchamps into the Equipe Nationale Belge.

Ooh, I see. Was Écurie Francorchamps the same as Écurie Belgique? I'm always a little confused by all these Belgian teams...

[tommykl]

So am I...

[Nessafox]

You're right, Claes did create the Ecurie Belge, which later merged with fellow driver Jacques Swaters' Ecurie Francorchamps into the Equipe Nationale Belge.

Ooh, I see. Was Écurie Francorchamps the same as Écurie Belgique? I'm always a little confused by all these Belgian teams...

there never was an écurie belgique

it's simple, the écurie francorchamps (jacques swaters) and écurie belge(johnny claes) got together to form the écurie nationale belge (also known as ENB, which involved drivers as pilette, gendebien, frere and bianchi (i'm not sure about mairesse)) because all these drivers also drove for other teams in the meantime, this is where it's getting complicated. For example did gendebien drive in a yellow works ferrari some times, and at other times in a yellow ENB-ferrari.
to make things complicated, these teams also competed in sportscars (frere and gendebien where multiple le mans winners, some of their attemps probably in an ENB-car)

the probable reason for the merge between EF and EB was claes suffering from tubercululosis, of which he died not long after that.