The new AMR Campus at Silverstone, opened 2023. Previously the team operated from Dadford Road, Silverstone — the same site under four previous names.
The team that has had more names than victories — and some of those names are genuinely good stories.
1991–2004
Jordan Grand Prix
Founded by Eddie Jordan. Entered at Spa 1991 with Bertrand Gachot, then Andrea de Cesaris — and Michael Schumacher on his Formula One debut. Four race victories. Known for extraordinary driver discovery and budget management that defied financial gravity.
2005
Midland F1 Racing
Purchased by Alex Shnaider for $60 million. Ran Jordan-era drivers with Jordan-era resources. One season. Sold to Spyker Cars at the end of 2005.
2006–2007
Spyker F1 Team
Dutch supercar manufacturer Spyker rebranded the team. Two seasons of back-marker racing. Adrian Sutil's performances were more impressive than the machinery deserved. Sold to Vijay Mallya in 2007.
2008–2018
Force India F1 Team
Vijay Mallya's team consistently punched above its weight. Best-of-the-rest classification in multiple seasons. Sergio Perez became one of the most effective operators in the midfield. Entered administration in July 2018 after Mallya's fraud charges.
2019–2020
Racing Point F1 Team
A consortium led by Lawrence Stroll purchased the team from administration for £90 million. The RP20 became 'the Tracing Point' controversy — an illegal copy of the 2019 Mercedes. Sebastian Vettel was announced for 2021 before the team rebranded again.
2021–present
Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team
Lawrence Stroll acquired a stake in Aston Martin Lagonda and rebranded the team with the luxury car manufacturer's identity. The AMR Campus opened in 2023. Fernando Alonso joined from Alpine for 2023. Lance Stroll, Lawrence's son, has driven throughout.
Eddie Jordan built something special on nothing. What came after varied considerably.
1991: The Jordan Grand Prix Debut
Jordan Grand Prix entered the 1991 season with the Jordan 191, a car designed by Gary Anderson that was broadly regarded as the most elegant interpretation of the regulations that year. Eddie Jordan had secured Ford engines and Bertrand Gachot as lead driver. At the Belgian Grand Prix, Gachot was jailed for assault. Jordan needed a replacement. Michael Schumacher appeared, tested, set the fourth-fastest time in testing, and was given the drive. He qualified seventh at Spa — an extraordinary debut. The following day, Benetton came with a financial offer Jordan couldn't refuse, Jordan countersued, and Schumacher was gone. The most valuable driver discovery in Formula One history cost Jordan the driver in 48 hours.
1992–1997: The Midfield Years and Ralf Schumacher
Jordan operated through the early 1990s as what is now called a boutique team — limited budget, considerable talent identification, and a culture that attracted good drivers when salary wasn't the primary consideration. Rubens Barrichello was a development driver from 1993 who frequently outperformed his machinery. Ralf Schumacher arrived in 1997 and was immediately fast. The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix produced Jordan's most famous day: Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher crossed the line 1-2, in the wet, after a race of almost incomprehensible attrition. It was Jordan's first and second victories, taken simultaneously. Eddie Jordan cried.
1999: The Championship That Wasn't
Heinz-Harald Frentzen won in France and Italy in 1999 and was, for a period in mid-season, genuinely competitive for the Drivers' Championship. He led the championship briefly. The season ended with Häkkinen winning the title; Frentzen third, ahead of Schumacher. 1999 was the last season Jordan could have described themselves as a genuine championship threat. The money required to compete at the level where championships happen was beyond what Jordan's structure could generate.
2000–2004: The Decline and Eddie's Exit
Tobacco sponsorship restrictions, the consolidation of commercial power among top teams, and the rising cost of championship-level competitiveness narrowed Jordan's operating margin. The cars were occasionally good — Fisichella's wet-weather win in Brazil 2003 was taken away and given back over several days of stewarding — but the team was no longer a front-runner. Eddie Jordan sold in 2004. He has regretted it in print on multiple occasions.
2008–2018: Force India Punch Above Their Weight
Vijay Mallya's Force India became one of the most efficient teams in the paddock — consistently extracting results from machinery that cost a fraction of what the constructors above them were spending. Sergio Perez was the perfect driver for the project: precise in tyre management, exceptional in dirty air, and capable of the opportunistic result when conditions allowed. In 2016 and 2017, Force India finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship — ahead of teams spending two or three times the budget. In 2018, Vijay Mallya was subject to fraud and money laundering charges in India and his assets were frozen. The team entered administration in July.
2019–2020: Racing Point and the Tracing Point
Lawrence Stroll's consortium bought the team from administration. The RP20 arrived in 2020 as a near-identical copy of the 2019 Mercedes W10 — down to non-listed parts that teams were not permitted to copy. The FIA fined Racing Point £400,000 and deducted 15 constructor points. Rivals were furious; the penalty was considered inadequate. Renault appealed. The appeal failed. Vettel was announced for 2021, a rebranding was confirmed, and the controversy moved from sporting to reputational.
2021–present: The Aston Martin Project
The new AMR Campus — a £200 million investment in wind tunnel, simulator, and aerodynamic facilities — opened in 2023. Alonso joined from Alpine and was immediately competitive. The AM23 was the fastest non-Mercedes, non-Ferrari, non-Red Bull car in the first third of 2023. Then the development curve stalled, the car fell back, and the second half of 2023 was substantially worse than the first. The 2024 and 2025 cars have been competitive without being championship-threatening. Lance Stroll and Alonso — who departed for a sabbatical year — have been replaced in a team whose floor capability is understood to be strong but whose aerodynamic consistency across tracks is still variable.
The engineering competence that made Force India punch above its weight is still there. The resources are now considerably larger.
1991
Jordan 191 — The Elegant Debut
Gary Anderson's Jordan 191 is widely considered one of the most elegant F1 car designs of its era. The pullrod front suspension, clean sidepod design, and well-resolved aerodynamic philosophy produced a car that performed above expectations in its first season. The team finished fifth in the Constructors' Championship. Anderson would remain as technical director through Jordan's most competitive period.
2010
Force India and the Resource Paradox
Force India's 2010 season produced 72 constructor points — more than any previous season. The team was operating on approximately one-fifth of the top teams' budgets. The aerodynamic efficiency of their packages was achieved through selective investment: a wind tunnel partnership with a university facility, carefully targeted computational fluid dynamics work, and driver feedback that substituted for the testing hours they couldn't afford.
2020
RP20 — The Tracing Point
Racing Point's 2020 car was sufficiently close to the 2019 Mercedes W10 to prompt an FIA investigation. The factory's reverse-engineering capability — using permitted analysis of competitor cars — was applied more thoroughly than the regulations permitted for non-listed parts. The brake duct geometry that triggered the complaint was shared geometry with the Mercedes. The team was penalised. The principle of using competitor car data more broadly was not addressed.
2023
AMR23 — Fast Start, Floor Problem
The new Aston Martin campus facilities allowed a step change in aerodynamic development capability for the 2023 season. The AMR23 was the fastest non-top-three car in the first eight races. Then the development curve stalled. Rivals found updates that Aston Martin didn't. The team's data shows the floor concept reached its performance ceiling faster than planned. Understanding that ceiling — and whether the 2024 car addressed it — defined the team's mid-term development narrative.
The 'Tracing Point' episode is one of Formula One's more recent technical arguments.
1991
Jordan vs Benetton: The Schumacher Contract
Michael Schumacher's contractual situation between Jordan Grand Prix and Benetton at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix became one of Formula One's most contentious driver disputes. Jordan maintained Schumacher was their driver for the remainder of the season. Benetton maintained a prior agreement existed. The courts found largely in Benetton's favour. Eddie Jordan has expressed frustration about the outcome in every interview about it since 1991. That is approximately 35 years of frustration.
2003
Brazil: The Win That Wasn't for 48 Hours
Giancarlo Fisichella crossed the line first in the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix, which was red-flagged due to an accident. The results were calculated at lap 53, not 54, because Fisichella's transponder failed. Jordan were initially told Räikkönen had won. Two days later, after investigation, Fisichella was awarded the victory. It remains the only time an F1 race result has been reversed by more than 24 hours after the event on a timing technicality.
2018
Vijay Mallya's Exit
Vijay Mallya's financial and legal difficulties — fraud and money laundering charges in India related to the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines — resulted in the freezing of his assets in 2017 and his formal arrest in the UK in 2017. Force India entered administration in July 2018. Staff were owed wages. Suppliers were owed payments. The team continued to race throughout. The administrators sold to Lawrence Stroll's consortium. Mallya's extradition to India remains ongoing.
2020
The Tracing Point
The RP20's similarity to the 2019 Mercedes W10 was documented by rival teams who had photographed both cars. The FIA's investigation confirmed that non-listed brake duct components had been designed using Mercedes data in a way that exceeded what was permitted. The £400,000 fine and 15 constructor point deduction were considered inadequate by Renault, who appealed unsuccessfully. Racing Point finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship that year — above the teams who had raised the complaint.
The Paddock Breakdown
Barry · Gary · KatGary Finch
Best efficiency-adjusted performance of any team on the grid, 2008-2018. The model respects what Mallya's team did with limited resources.
Force India's points-per-million-spent ratio was the highest on the grid between 2010 and 2017. I've done the numbers. They finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship in 2016 and 2017 with a budget that would have funded one of the top teams' catering operation. Perez's tyre management — consistently 15-20 laps longer than rivals on equivalent compounds — was worth approximately 8-10 points per season in strategy advantages alone. The current Aston Martin has ten times the resource. The results are not ten times better. That gap between investment and output is what Alonso was trying to close with his feedback loop. Gary's model needs more data on the 2026 car before updating the efficiency rating.
Kat Moreno
The Jordan 191 and the AMR Campus represent the two poles of what this team has been.
The Jordan 191 was a shoestring engineering achievement — Gary Anderson designing a genuinely competitive car with a fraction of the resource available to the teams above him. The AMR Campus is a £200 million engineering facility with a best-in-class wind tunnel and a data processing centre that rivals the top teams. The question is whether the human systems — the aerodynamic philosophy, the driver feedback integration, the design philosophy — have developed at the same rate as the physical infrastructure. The 2023 season suggests the floor concept plateaued. That's an engineering decision issue, not a facilities issue. The facilities are fine. The concept needs to keep developing.