Location: Brackley, United Kingdom
Years in F1: 1999 - 2005
Team championships: 0
Drivers Championships: 0
Grand Prix victories: 0
Races started: 117
Pole positions: 2
BAR team history
Formed by Craig Pollock, Reynard Racing and BAT in 1997 when they purchased the Tyrrell team. The team ran its first race in 1999 and promised much, but struggled in the first few years despite the input of former world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Much hard work and input from Honda led to improvement in the 2003 season and second place in the championship in 2004. At the end of the 2005 season the Honda company bought the remaining stake in the team, to race as a full works Honda team from the 2006 season. The team then became Brawn and then Mercedes.
Previous seasons
2005
Position: 6
Points: 38
Race wins: 0 Jenson Button 9th 37 points Takuma Sato 23rd 1 point The season was marred by controversy over the weight of the car resulting in a race disqualification and a 2 race ban. Honda bought a full control of the team BAT moved out following changes to the rules on tobacco advertising.
2004
Position: 2
Points: 119
Race wins: 0 Jenson Button 3rd 85 points Takuma Sato 8th 34 points This was the teams beast season finishing second in the constructors championship and despite several second places there was not to be a race win.
2003
Position: 5
Points: 26
Race wins: 0 Jenson Button 9th 17 points Jacques Villeneuve 16th 6 points Jenson Button joined the team and consistently scored points in the races he finished.
2002
Position: 8
Points: 7
Race wins: 0 Jacques Villeneuve 12th 4 points
Olivier Panis 14th 3 points This season saw a change in personal with David Richards from Prodive brought in as team principal.
2001
Position: 6
Points: 17
Race wins: 0 Jacques Villeneuve 7th 12 points
Olivier Panis 14th 5 points The team was still mid field although there were 2 podium finishes from Jacques Villeneuve.
2000
Position: 5
Points: 20
Race wins: 0 Jacques Villeneuve 7th 17 points
Ricardo Zonta 14th 3 points The team signed a deal to use Honda engines and the car was more reliable.
1999
Position: 11
Points: 0
Race wins: 0 Jacques Villeneuve 21st 0 points
Ricardo Zonta 22nd 0 points The first season for BAR was poor mainly due to reliability problems with the car.