| Full name | Alfa Romeo S.p.A. (1950–1951) Autodelta (1979) Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo (1980–1983) Benetton Team Alfa Romeo (1984–1985) Alfa Romeo Racing (2019) Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen (2020–2021) Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen (2022) Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake (2023) |
|---|---|
| Base | Milan, Italy (1950–1951, 1979–1985) Hinwil, Zürich, Switzerland (2019–2023) |
| Founder(s) | Alexandre Darracq Ugo Stella Nicola Romeo |
| Noted staff | |
| Noted drivers |  Nino Farina Juan Manuel Fangio Riccardo Patrese Kimi Räikkönen Valtteri Bottas |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1950 British Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 214 |
| Engines | Alfa Romeo, Ferrari |
| Constructors' Championships | 0 |
| Drivers' Championships | 2 (1950, 1951) |
| Race victories | 10 |
| Podiums | 26 |
| Points | 199[1] (363[a]) |
| Pole positions | 12 |
| Fastest laps | 16 |
| 2023 position | 9th (16 pts) |
Italian motor manufacturer Alfa Romeo has participated multiple times in Formula One. The brand has competed in motor racing as both a constructor and engine supplier sporadically between 1950 and 1987, and later as a commercial partner between 2015 and 2023. The company's works drivers won the first two World Drivers' Championships in the pre-war Alfetta: Nino Farina in 1950 and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1951. Following these successes, Alfa Romeo withdrew from Formula One.
During the 1960s, although the company had no official presence in the top tier of motorsport, several Formula One teams used independently developed Alfa Romeo engines to power their cars. In the early 1970s, Alfa provided Formula One support for their works driver Andrea de Adamich, supplying adapted versions of their 3-litre V8 engine from the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 sports car to power Adamich's McLaren (1970) and March (1971) entries. None of these engine combinations scored championship points.
In the mid-1970s, Alfa engineer Carlo Chiti designed a flat-12 engine to replace the T33 V8, which achieved some success in taking the 1975 World Sportscar Championship. Bernie Ecclestone, then owner of the Brabham Formula One team, persuaded Alfa Romeo to supply this engine free for the 1976 Formula One season. Although the Brabham-Alfa Romeo's first season was relatively modest, during the 1977 and 1978 World Championships their cars took 14 podium finishes, including two race victories for Niki Lauda.
The company's sporting department, Autodelta, returned as the works team in 1979. This second period as a constructor was less successful than the first. Between the company's return and its withdrawal as a constructor at the end of 1985, Alfa works drivers did not win a race and the team never finished higher than sixth in the World Constructors' Championship. The team's engines were also supplied to Osella from 1983 to 1987, but they scored only two World Championship points during this period.
The Alfa Romeo logo returned to Formula One in 2015, appearing on the Scuderia Ferrari cars. Alfa Romeo became the title sponsor for the Ferrari-powered Sauber team from 2018, and this commercial partnership was increased to a full renaming of the team beginning in 2019. Alfa Romeo did not have any technical involvement with the team, and the company ended its sponsorship of Sauber after 2023 and left Formula One to allow the team to be taken over by Audi for 2026.
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