Michael Schumacher - 1994, 1995, 2000-2004 Michael Schumacher Share Since the Formula One World Drivers' Championship began in 1950 the title has been won by 32 different drivers, 15 of whom won more than one championship. Of the multiple champions the most prolific was Juan Manuel Fangio, whose record of five titles stood for five decades until it was eclipsed by the most successful driver in the sport's history. Seven times a champion, Michael Schumacher also holds nearly every scoring record in the book by a considerable margin. Though his ethics were sometimes questioned, as was his decision to make a comeback after retiring, his sheer dominance when in his prime is beyond doubt... Next Previous Enlarge 1 / 7 Spa, August 1991: Michael Schumacher made his Formula One debut with Jordan at the Belgian Grand Prix. He qualified a sensational seventh, but then went out on lap one with clutch failure. © Sutton © No reproduction without permission. Adelaide, November 1991: After one race with Jordan Michael Schumacher switched to Benetton. He scored points with them on his first appearance.

At the Australian Grand Prix he retired after colliding with his team mate. © Schlegelmilch © No reproduction without permission. Montreal, June 1994: After winning the opening four rounds of the season, Michael Schumacher then took his fifth victory in six races at the Canadian Grand Prix at the wheel of the Benetton B194. © Sutton © No reproduction without permission. Adelaide, November 1994: Michael Schumacher before he controversially collided with championship rival Damon Hill at the season ending Australian Grand Prix. Both drivers retired, handing Schumacher his first world title. © Sutton © No reproduction without permission. Monza, September 1995: Michael Schumacher is restrained by a marshal as he remonstrates with Damon Hill after the Englishman took them both out of the Italian Grand Prix. Hill subsequently received a suspended one-race ban. © Sutton © No reproduction without permission. Adelaide, November 1995: Michael Schumacher crashed out of the Australian Grand Prix on lap 26. It was of little consequence as he had wrapped up his second world championship two races earlier. © Sutton © No reproduction without permission.

Monte Carlo, May 1996: Michael Schumacher moved to Ferrari as reigning champion. After starting on pole he would retire from the Monaco Grand Prix. However, his first victory for the team came at the next round in Spain. © Sutton © No reproduction without permission. Info Close The most extraordinary driver's origins were most ordinary. He was born on 3 January, 1969, near Cologne, Germany, six years before his brother Ralf, who would also become a Formula One driver of note. Their father, a bricklayer, ran the local kart track, at Kerpen, where Mrs Schumacher operated the canteen. As a four-year old Michael enjoyed playing on a pedal kart, though when his father fitted it with a small motorcycle engine the future superstar promptly crashed into a lamppost. But Michael quickly mastered his machine and won his first kart championship at six, following which his far from affluent parents arranged sponsorship from wealthy enthusiasts that enabled Michael to make rapid progress. By 1987 he was German and European kart champion and had left school to work as an apprentice car mechanic, a job that was soon replaced by full-time employment as a race driver.

In 1990 he won the German F3 championship and was hired by Mercedes to drive sportscars. The next year he made a stunning Formula One debut, qualifying an astonishing seventh in a Jordan for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, whereupon he was immediately snapped up by Benetton, with whom in 1992 he won his first F1 race, again at Spa, among the most demanding circuits of them all. Over the next four seasons with Benetton he won a further 18 races and two world championships. His first, in 1994, was somewhat tainted in that Benetton was suspected of technical irregularities and in their championship showdown race in Adelaide Schumacher collided (deliberately, some thought) with the car of his closest challenger, the Williams of Damon Hill. But Germany's first world champion was unquestionably worthy of the 1995 driving title, following which he moved to Ferrari, then a team in disarray and without a champion since Jody Scheckter in 1979.

The Schumacher-Ferrari combination began promisingly with three wins in 1996 and five more in 1997, though that season ended in humiliation when in the final race, at Jerez in Spain, Schumacher tried unsuccessfully to ram the Williams of his title rival Jacques Villeneuve off the road. As punishment for his misdemeanour Schumacher's points and his second place in the championship were stricken from the record books he would thereafter begin to rewrite. After finishing second overall in 1998, Schumacher's 1999 season was interrupted by a broken leg (the only injury in his career) incurred in a crash at the British Grand Prix. From then on there was no stopping 'Schumi' - who in 2000 became Ferrari's first champion in 21 years, then went on to win the driving title for the next four years in succession. In 2002 he won 11 times and finished on the podium in all 17 races. In 2003 he broke Fangio's record by winning his sixth driving title.

In 2004 he won 13 of the 18 races to win his seventh championship by a by a massive margin. Like all the great drivers Schumacher had exceptional ambition, confidence, intelligence, motivation, dedication and determination. What set him apart and helped account for his unprecedented length of time at the top was a pure passion for racing and an endless quest for improvement. Blessed with a supreme natural talent honed to the highest degree, he had a racing brain to match and spare mental capacity that enabled him to make split-second decisions, adapt to changing circumstances and plan ahead while driving on the limit, which with his superb state of fitness (he trained harder than any driver) he could do consistently for lengthy periods of time. The smoothly swift and mechanically-aware driver operated with a keen sensitivity for the limits of his car and himself (he seldom made mistakes) and his feedback to the engineers (led by technical director Ross Brawn who worked with him throughout his career) was invariably astute. Info Close No Ferrari driver worked harder for the team, nor were any of them more appreciated than the German who led the Italian team to six successive Constructors' Championships.

He led by example, frequently visiting the factory at Maranello, talking to the personnel, thanking them, encouraging them, never criticising and inspiring everyone with his optimism, high energy level and huge work ethic. The team was devoted to the driver who often said he loved the Ferrari 'family.' Life with his own family - wife Corinna and their children Gina-Maria and Mick - was deliberately kept as normal as possible (they seldom came to the races) by the essentially shy and private man who became one of the most famous sportsmen in the world. Rich beyond his wildest dreams (he reportedly earned as much as $100 million a year), he generously supported charities, especially those for underprivileged children, and to help victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster he made a personal donation of $10 million. After finishing second in the 2006 championship, the aging superstar was still at the peak of his powers, having won seven races to bring his total to 91 (40 more than his nearest rival, Alain Prost.) No champion had been so superior for so long, but Schumi had grown tired of the effort required to continue to excel and decided to hang up his helmet.

Yet his retirement proved to be only temporary. In 2010, after a three-year hiatus as a consultant to Ferrari, 41-year-old Michael Schumacher succumbed to the lure of driving for the new Mercedes team headed by Ross Brawn. Critics questioned the multiple champion's decision to risk his reputation in the sport that was once his personal playground. He gave his best but made it to the podium only once during his three-year comeback. In his final season of 2012 his opponents included five other world champions - all of them at least a decade younger. "I enjoyed most of it," Michael Schumacher said of the second part of his career. "It wasn't as successful as before but I still learned a lot for life. I found that losing can be both more difficult and more instructive than winning. Now is a good time to go." In the cruelest of ironies, after surviving so many seasons in his dangerous profession, Michael Schumacher’s first year in permanent retirement ended with him suffering a very serious head injury incurred when he fell while on a family skiing holiday. Following the accident that left him in a coma for several months his family brought him home where he faced a lengthy period of rehabilitation.

If the power of public opinion could help his recovery it came in the form of a tremendous outpouring of messages of hope, support and encouragement for the sport’s most successful driver. Text - Gerald Donaldson Bonhams : 1994 Benetton-Cosworth Ford B194 Formula 1 The ex-Michael Schumacher, 1994 FIA Formula 1 World Championship-Winning Benetton-Cosworth Ford B194 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater Chassis no. B194-05 Footnotes Only very occasionally during its entire history has the Bonhams motoring department  undeniably the world's most widely experienced classic and Historic racing car auction house  had the opportunity to offer a 'modern-era' World Championship-winning Formula 1 car of the stature embodied within the remarkable  and fully operable  machine we now present here.

This exquisitely well-presented 1994 Benetton-Cosworth Ford B194 is the very car in which living legend Michael Schumacher  seven-times Formula 1 World Champion Driver  amassed the highest points score of any of the individual works team chassis in which he competed during that so-momentous racing season. Importantly, this was the first and therefore his most significant World Championship. Chassis 'B194-05' offered here was used by the great German superstar driver to score four World Championship-qualifying Grand Prix race wins and to add two further second-place finishes. This car as prepared and rebuilt from race to race employs the actual monocoque fuselage in which Michael Schumacher won the 1994 Grand Prix of San Marino at Imola, plus the Canadian Grand Prix on the Ile Notre Dame circuit at Montreal, the Monaco Grand Prix around the streets and quaysides of Monte Carlo, and in the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours.

At Imola Michael Schumacher  as the new upstart talent within Formula 1- qualified this car second-fastest on the front row of the starting grid alongside triple-World Champion Ayrton Senna's Williams-Renault. As motor racing history tragically records, the race was stopped and restarted after the fatal accident which took Ayrton Senna's life, and which occurred mere yards ahead of this Benetton B194's shapely nose cone as Senna and Schumacher had committed their cars at 180mph-plus into the Tamburello Curve. After the restart Michael Schumacher took the lead from Gerhard Berger's factory Ferrari on the sixth lap. For a brief period when Schumacher made his pit stop Ferrari's second-string driver Nicola Larini inherited the lead but the young German quickly reasserted his superiority and went on to dominate the remainder of the Grand Prix. In fact this Benetton B194 won by over 50secs from the second-placed Ferrari, providing its youthful driver with the first of his eight World Championship round victories that season, albeit in the most tragic circumstances most enthusiasts could imagine.

In qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix Michael Schumacher and McLaren's Mika Hakkinen fought for pole position, with this Benetton B194 winning the duel. The German star made his customary good start, pulling clear of any threat from Hakkinen who soon tangled with Damon Hill's Williams. This left Michael Schumacher well clear of all pursuers and he would not be headed for the rest of the afternoon... In mid-race oil was spilled at Ste Devote corner. Schumacher in B194-05 offered here slid and nearly hit the barrier, but without further alarms he tore on around the Principality to win from Martin Brundle's McLaren-Peugeot by some 37 seconds... For the Canadian Grand Prix further rule changes were applied as a result of the Imola accidents, the most significant being the decision that teams must use pump fuel. Until then they had used specially formulated 'rocket fuel' which bore no relation to ordinary gasoline available at the roadside service station.

This change seemed to have a dramatic effect on the relative performance of various leading team cars and Michael Schumacher in 'B194-05' only just bettered the times set by Ferrari drivers Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger to take yet another pole position. At race start the top three maintained grid order and Michael Schumacher maintained firm control while behind him Alesi began to edge away from his team-mate Berger, the Austrian having to work hard to keep Coulthard and Hill behind him. Rain began falling at mid-race but Schumacher and his carefully prepared Benetton B194 displayed remarkable pace regardless of track condition and duly won from Damon Hill, Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger  the Benetton-Cosworth Ford in the German star's hands having asserted complete dominance over the best that Williams-Renault and Ferrari could provide. Three weeks later, qualifying for the French GP at Magny-Cours saw a pulsating deciding session in which Damon Hill beat his team leader Nigel Mansell's Williams-Renault time to take a dramatic pole position, while Michael Schumacher in 'B194-05' was third fastest on the inside of row two.

But as the lights signaled the start it was Schumacher in this green, blue and white -liveried Benetton B194 who made a simply amazing getaway, slotting its sleek nose between the two Williams-Renault FW16s to take an immediate lead with the younger Briton in hot pursuit as Mansell fell back, third. This order up front remained stable until Mansell went into the pits for new tyres on lap 18. With some drivers planning three stops and others going for two the order ebbed and flowed. On lap 37 Schumacher swept into the pitlane for his second stop leaving Hill in the lead. But after rejoining, within five laps, Schumacher was on Hill's tail again. Damon Hill then made his second pit stop and rejoined 20secs behind Schumacher's Benetton, 'B194-05' purring home thereafter to record its fourth victory of the season, by 13secs from the Williams-Renault.

This Formula 1 car was also driven by Michael Schumacher that season to finish second in both the Spanish and British GPs, being headed both at Barcelona and at Silverstone by Damon Hill's Williams-Renault FW16. The car's 1994 season World Championship points score, therefore, totaled no fewer than 46 out of the 92 that Michael Schumacher accumulated during his entire title-winning campaign that year. It has been pointed out that the only car which could rival 'B194-05' here in terms of importance in Michael Schumacher's career is the 2004 Ferrari chassis '234' with which he won the opening five Grand Prix races of his seventh and final World Championship-winning racing season. After the conclusion of the 1994 season, 'B194-05' was retained at Benetton's base at Enstone, Oxfordshire where it was kept in secure dehumidified storage apart from a few static displays. In 2000, the Benetton team was sold to Renault, and two years later was officially re-branded as the 'Renault F1 Team'.

This car, together with a number of others, was sold in 2000 to Matthew Mortlock, from whom it was purchased by the current owner in January 2008. In July of that year 'B194-05' was statically exhibited at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. At the end of 2008 its rebuild commenced with a strip down and inspection followed by crack testing of all suspension parts, rims and wings. All suspension uprights, drive shafts, master cylinders, gearbox and dampers were fully rebuilt. In 2009 Langford Performance Engineering completely rebuilt the engine with new pistons, valves, valve springs and bearings, after which it was dynamometer tested. Meanwhile, historic Formula 1 car specialists Team Ascari of Banbury fitted new front brake calipers; a new fuel tank; new engine starter, battery trolley and water heater; new carbon clutch (Tilton); updated electronics including ECU and harness, chassis loom, engine loom (Pectel and Viper electronics) and dashboard (GEMS); and a new paddle shift system (Equipmake), a process that consumed approximately 800 hours of engineering work.

Fred Goddard Racing Ltd undertook final assembly and testing, and at the end of 2010 the Benetton was shipped to the Ascari Race Resort in Ronda, Spain. In 2011 the car completed a few laps of testing for final engine mapping and setting up the electronics, with a further ten laps of testing in 2012. A video and photo-shoot run for Bonhams was completed earlier this year ( Presented in its original 1994 Mild Seven livery, this Benetton-Cosworth Ford B194 is offered here in complete running condition following more than two years of painstaking restoration, and is described by its vendor as race-prepared. The car is offered here with a completely rebuilt Cosworth-Ford Zetec engine, a fresh gearbox and a modernised high-speed paddle-shift gear change system. The package proposed for sale includes a race-ready car with spares and complete pit equipment.

It is offered with a post-sale testing opportunity at its current home base, the Ascari Race Resort in Ronda, Spain, and in recent running there for Bonhams' camera team the car performed in every respect as its illustrious as-new history would suggest  to perfection. This is in every respect one of the most significant Grand Prix racing cars of recent history. Its record confirms its supreme historical importance, and for any collector/enthusiast who grew up during the long, long frontline racing career of world record-breaking, seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Driver Michael Schumacher, this is the perfect iconic centerpiece, his first World Championship winning car. We recommend the closest inspection and consideration. Saleroom notices Ranking the Top 25 Constructors in F1 History by Race Wins | Bleacher Report Ranking the Top 25 Constructors in F1 History by Race Wins Senior Writer IIIJanuary 10, 2017 Ranking the Top 25 Constructors in F1 History by Race Wins 1 of 27 Mark Thompson/Getty Images In the modern era of Formula One, and sport in general, it is the winning—not the taking part—that counts.

And it is not just winning alone that matters for teams, individuals, manufacturers and constructors—they have to win well, win often and win in the "proper way." The fashionable way, the groovy way, the right way. This ever-growing strive for complete, unblemished excellence has allowed a certain snobbery to creep into sporting society, with the rest almost segregated from the very best of the best. Yet it is clear that there are no accidental wins in F1. Each victory—whether it is achieved by the might of Ferrari, McLaren or Williams, institutions which have stood the test of time, or the relative squeal of Wolf—is hard-earned and deserved. With Formula One such a harsh and ferociously competitive business, the act of winning a grand prix is no mean feat, emphasised by the fact that so few teams have actually claimed the top step of a podium. Here are the 25 most frequent grand prix-winning constructors in F1 history.

Note: All win tallies in this article were compiled from the Official Formula One Season Review 2013 annual, with additions made to the tallies of the two constructors', Red Bull Racing and Team Brackley, who have gone on to win races in the ongoing 2014 campaign. The 1-Race Wonders 2 of 27 Michael Cooper/Getty Images Dan Gurney won the 1962 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts for Porsche, with the American also breaking the Eagle team's duck in the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps. John Watson won the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix at the Osterreichring for the Penske outfit, with Alan Jones winning the same race for Shadow the following year. Johnny Herbert, meanwhile, won the 1999 European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring for Stewart. 25. Hesketh (1 Win) 3 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images Considering that Hesketh were a Formula Three team who almost unconsciously grew into Formula One, winning a grand prix was quite an achievement.

It was fitting that it was James Hunt, who had grown with the outfit through the minor formulae, who won Hesketh's one and only race at Zandvoort in 1975, a race which saw the British driver—not for the last time—resist the charges of Niki Lauda's Ferrari. Hunt's impact on the outfit's fortunes was alarmingly clear, however, with Hesketh failing to even record another point after he departed the team for McLaren in 1976. 24. Scuderia Toro Rosso (1) 4 of 27 Clive Mason/Getty Images Despite Red Bull's success over the last four years, it was Toro Rosso, the manufacturer's sister team, who first suggested that the Austrian company's involvement in Formula One was beginning to pay off. The Italian team, formerly known as perennial backmarkers Minardi, won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix at Monza with Sebastian Vettel at the wheel in wet conditions. Similar conditions plagued the previous day's qualifying session, in which Vettel, literally, stormed to pole.

Despite being widely expected to succumb to faster cars in the race, the German found himself pulling away from the McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen to win his first, and Toro Rosso's only, grand prix. The team haven't looked like adding to its tally since. 23. BMW Sauber (1) 5 of 27 Paul Gilham/Getty Images BMW Sauber developed into a handy racing team in the latter stages of the last decade and should have had more than one win to their name, having frequently fought among the front-runners. In reality, the outfit only triumphed in one race, the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix, with Poland's Robert Kubica taking the chequered flag ahead of teammate Nick Heidfeld. Kubica's victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve remains the only win achieved by the Sauber team, who have been ever-present in Formula One since 1993. 22.

Honda (2) 6 of 27 Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press American driver Richie Ginther won the first race for Honda in the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix, in which he participated in the iconic, Japanese-liveried RA272 chassis. Although Honda went on to enjoy great success as an engine supplier and returned to the grid as a team in 2006, the last race won by the original Honda outfit was the 1967 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where John Surtees triumphed. 21. Wolf (3) 7 of 27 Tony Duffy/Getty Images Remarkably, Walter Wolf Racing won their debut race, with Jody Scheckter, signed from Tyrrell, taking the chequered flag in the 1977 Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires. It was the first of three victories for the team, with Scheckter also winning in Monaco and Canada, allowing the South African to finish second to Niki Lauda in the drivers' standings.

Despite recording a further four top-three finishes the following season, a Wolf driver never stood on the top step of the podium again, despite the team employing drivers of the calibre of James Hunt and Keke Rosberg. 20. March (3) 8 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images The March team won two grands prix as a constructor, with a further win as a customer for Tyrrell. Jackie Stewart took the first victory for a March car in the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama, with Italy's Vittorio Brambilla securing the first win for the team in the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix at the Osterreichring. Ronnie Peterson, the Swedish driver, claimed the team's final victory in the 1976 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the race which saw Niki Lauda, a former March driver, return to action for the first time since his near-fatal crash at the Nurburgring earlier that season. 19. Jordan (4) 9 of 27 Clive Mason/Getty Images The punchy Jordan team won four of the 250 races they competed in between 1991 and 2005.

Three of those victories occurred within the space of 13 months, with Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, breaking the team's duck in the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix. Germany's Heinz-Harald Frentzen went on to win the 1999 French and Italian Grands Prix as the team finished a best-ever third in the constructors' standings, although Jordan faced an extended wait for their final victory. It proved to be one of the most bizarre triumphs in F1 history, with Giancarlo Fisichella handed the winners' trophy for the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix two weeks after the chequered flag fell due to confusion surrounding a red-flag stoppage. 18. Vanwall (9) 10 of 27 WALTER ATTENNI/Associated Press It took Vanwall three years to register their first grand prix victory, but the wins soon began to flow for the Acton-based team. Vanwall's first victory was arguably the most memorable, with Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks sharing a car to win the British Grand Prix at Aintree.

Moss was Vanwall's most frequent victor, succeeding on six occasions over the course of the 1957 and 1958 seasons, which saw the team claim the first-ever constructors' championship. Brooks acted as a strong support act to Moss, winning three races—all in his own right—in the team's title-winning season. 17. Mercedes (9) 11 of 27 STF/Associated Press The 2014-spec Mercedes team is following in the footsteps of the 1954-spec outfit in terms of blitzing the opposition. Juan Manuel Fangio joined the Silver Arrows from Maserati during the '54 season and picked up where he'd left off, winning four of the final six races in the legendary W196 car on his way to the crown. Fangio, in the same car, won the title again the following season with four victories to his name, with Stirling Moss winning the penultimate round of the campaign at Aintree. 16.

Matra (9) 12 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images Jackie Stewart claimed all nine of Matra's Formula One wins in the space of just 16 races over the course of the 1968 and 1969 seasons. The Scot opened the team's account in the Netherlands before adding to the tally in Germany and the United States. But it was the 1969 season when the partnership came into its own, with Stewart winning six of the first eight races, the last of which at Monza—Matra's final victory—saw both team and driver clinch the world championship. 15. Maserati (9) 13 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images Juan Manuel Fangio took seven of Maserati's nine grand prix victories, bookending the team's account with victories in the 1950 Italian Grand Prix at Monza and the 1957 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.

Stirling Moss claimed the other two victories for the Italian manufacturer, both in 1956 at Monaco and Monza, but this was still not good enough for the title, which was taken by Fangio, who at that point was driving for Ferrari. 14. Ligier (9) 14 of 27 Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images Ligier's last Formula One victory was arguably their most famous, with Olivier Panis winning the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, a race finished by only three cars. By that point, the French team was very much on a downward spiral, having failed to win a race since 1981. Jacques Laffite won in Canada in the penultimate round of that season and it was the Paris-born driver who removed the monkey from the team's back by winning the team's first race in just their second season in Sweden in 1977. Patrick Depailler and Didier Pironi also tasted victory for Ligier. 13.

Alfa Romeo (10) 15 of 27 STR/Associated Press Alfa Romeo won the very first Formula One World Championship race in 1950, with Italy's Giuseppe Farina taking the chequered flag at Silverstone. Farina would go on to triumph on three further occasions, but it was five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio who quickly emerged as Alfa's star attraction, with the Argentine winning six grands prix. Among those victories for Fangio was a shared win with Luigi Fagioli, who was ordered to swap cars after the Argentine had encountered technical problems in the 1951 French Grand Prix. It proved to be Alfa Romeo's penultimate win, with Fangio securing the team's last victory at the season-ending Spanish Grand Prix, with financial difficulties preventing the Italian outfit from racking up more triumphs. 12. Renault (15) 16 of 27 Don Morley/Getty Images The original Renault team, the first to compete with a turbocharged engine, won 15 races in their existence between 1977 and 1985.

Although the team are most commonly associated with four-time world champion Alain Prost, it was his compatriot Jean-Pierre Jabouille who won Renault's first race on home soil at Dijon in 1979, a race best remembered for that battle between Rene Arnoux, Jabouille's teammate, and Gilles Villeneuve. Prost's arrival in 1981 led to the Frenchman winning nine races in three years, with his bitter departure for McLaren in 1984 resulting in Renault's permanent absence from the winners' circle. 11. Cooper (16) 17 of 27 Associated Press Stirling Moss claimed the first of Cooper's 16 race wins in the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires, the first victory for a rear-engined car. Jack Brabham went a step further the following year, taking the world championship with two victories at Monaco and Aintree before repeating the trick the following year with five consecutive victories in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Britain and Portugal.

Cooper's revolutionary advantage, however, could not be sustained, with the manufacturer taking only three further wins, the last of which came courtesy of Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez in South Africa in 1967. 10. BRM (17) 18 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images British Racing Motors won 17 of the 197 races they competed in between 1951 and 1977. Sweden's Jo Bonnier won the team's first-ever race at Zandvoort in 1959, but it was Graham Hill who was BRM's most successful driver. Hill won 10 grands prix for the team between 1962, when both driver and team won the world championship, and 1965. BRM triumphed in the closest finish in F1 history , the 1971 Italian Grand Prix, with the top five—led by British driver Peter Gethin—crossing the Monza finish line within 0.61 seconds of each other, according to the official Formula One website .

The team's last victory occurred in the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, with French driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise taking the chequered flag. 9. Team Brackley (Honda, Brawn GP, Mercedes GP) (22) 19 of 27 Clive Mason/Getty Images Team Brackley are relative newcomers to the winners' circle, having took their first grand prix victory in the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. Jenson Button, representing Honda after the Japanese manufacturer had taken over the BAR team at the beginning of that year, broke the team's duck in a wet race at the Hungaroring. The team then endured a near-three year winless streak, but it was worth the wait, with Button, in the colours of Brawn GP after Honda pulled out of F1, winning six of the first seven races of 2009 to create the perfect platform for his one and only title. Mercedes took control of the team at the end of that fairytale season, but even the might of the Silver Arrows had to wait until the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix to record a win of their own, with Nico Rosberg the victor in Shanghai.

The team's win tally has rocketed in 2014, with Rosberg and teammate Lewis Hamilton winning nine races between them in the dominant W05 car. 8. Tyrrell (23) 20 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images In their 30-year existence between 1968 and 1998, Tyrrell won 23 of the 463 grands prix they started. The team's first 10 wins, all achieved by three-time world champion Jackie Stewart, were taken with the use of a Matra chassis which took the Scot to the 1969 crown. Italy's Michele Alboreto recorded Tyrrell's last grand prix victory at Detroit in 1983, although the team continued to operate until the 1998 Japanese Grand Prix, by which time they had become a shadow of their former self. 7. Brabham (35) 21 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images Brabham won 35 of the 402 races they participated in between its debut in 1962 and their final race in 1992.

The team are best known for Jack Brabham, the team's founder, becoming the first driver to win the world championship in a car bearing his own name in 1966—but it was American racer Dan Gurney who took the team's first victory in the French Grand Prix of 1964. Brabham himself, in fact, did not win for his own team until his championship year, in which he found a run of four consecutive victories good enough for the title. Denny Hulme secured the team's second title the following year with two wins. The team suffered a drop in form until Nelson Piquet rose to prominence, with the Brazilian scooping the 1981 and 1983 crowns. Brabham then encountered an even sharper decline as the ownership of the team continually changed, dropping from world championship contention before failing to finish the 1992 season. 6. Team Enstone (Toleman, Benetton, Renault, Lotus) (49) 22 of 27 Clive Rose/Getty Images Although the name has changed on several occasions, the Enstone-based team have seemingly always had a winning mentality.

The outfit failed to win a grand prix under their initial Toleman guise, but handed Ayrton Senna his Formula One debut in 1984, with the then-24-year-old Brazilian taking three podium finishes for the team. It was left to Gerhard Berger, the Austrian driver, to record Benetton's first victory in Mexico in 1986, but it wasn't until Michael Schumacher arrived at the team that Enstone were elevated to the next level. The German took 17 wins on his way to the 1994 and 1995 titles. Enstone went without a world championship for a decade until Fernando Alonso claimed the 2005 and 2006 crowns for Renault, adding 14 wins to the team's tally in the process. Despite losing their status as front-runners, the team have often remained in contention for wins, taking their last victory, under the Lotus name, with Kimi Raikkonen at the wheel in the 2013 Australian Grand Prix. 5.

Red Bull Racing (49) 23 of 27 Ker Robertson/Getty Images Daniel Ricciardo's victory in the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix took Red Bull Racing to within one win of their half-century. It is a remarkable feat, especially when you consider that the team only took their very first victory in the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel was the winner on that April afternoon and it is the German who has led the way for the Milton Keynes-based team, triumphing on 38 occasions for Red Bull, with Ricciardo and predecessor Mark Webber chipping in where possible. Those 49 wins have translated into four consecutive drivers' and constructors' crowns. 4. Team Lotus (79) 24 of 27 Getty Images/Getty Images The original Lotus team won a total of 79 races in their existence between 1958 and 1994. British driver Innes Ireland got the ball rolling by winning the 1961 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, his only career victory.

It was, however, the exploits of two fellow Britons that cemented the team's place in Formula One history, with Jim Clark and Graham Hill securing three titles for Lotus between 1963 and 1968. Three more titles followed, with Jochen Rindt becoming the first and only posthumous world champion in 1970, Emerson Fittipaldi becoming the then-youngest ever title winner two years later and Mario Andretti clinching the crown in '78. Although no more championships arrived, grand prix wins continued to flow, with Ayrton Senna taking the team's last victory at Detroit in 1987. The team continued to operate until the end if 1994, but were by that point restricted to only occasional points finishes. 3. Williams (114) 25 of 27 Mike Hewitt/Getty Images Switzerland's Clay Regazzoni recorded Williams' first grand prix win in the 1979 British Grand Prix in the team's home race at Silverstone.

It sparked a "London bus" run of form in the latter stages of the team's third season, with Regazzoni's teammate, Alan Jones, winning each of the following three races in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. That run of results was a sign of things to come, with Williams sealing nine constructors' and seven drivers' titles over the next two decades. Williams' most triumphant run of form occurred at the beginning of the 1990s, when the team were at the forefront of modern technology, winning 20 of the 32 races between 1992 and 1993, scooping drivers' titles with Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost, respectively. Williams, however, are without a win since Pastor Maldonado won the Spanish Grand Prix in May 2012. 2. McLaren (182) 26 of 27 Tony Feder/Getty Images Since Bruce McLaren participated in the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix in a car bearing his own name, the New Zealander's team have gone on to win 182 races in 753 starts.

It was McLaren himself who took the outfit's first victory, winning the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa after starting sixth. The team's most successful period was the mid-1980s and early 1990s, a time which saw the team win the world championship on seven occasions with Niki Lauda (1984), Alain Prost (1985, 1986, 1989) and Ayrton Senna (1988, 1990, 1991). The 1988 season was the most successful campaign for a single team, with McLaren winning all but one race ( Senna's retirement from the lead at Monza prevented a clean sweep). Despite their rich history, McLaren have not added to their tally since Jenson Button won the Brazilian Grand Prix in November 2012. 1. Ferrari (221) 27 of 27 Clive Mason/Getty Images As the only constructor to contest every single season of the Formula One World Championship, it is perhaps no surprise that Ferrari lead the way in terms of grand prix victories.

The Prancing Horse has racked up 221 wins in its time, with the first achieved by Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez in the 1951 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Ferrari's success rate has seen nine drivers secure 15 drivers' titles for the Italian team, with 16 constructors' championships also heading to their Maranello base. The team's most successful period occurred between 2000 and 2004, with Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello recording 57 wins Ferrari's most recent win was taken by Fernando Alonso at the Spanish Grand Prix in May 2013.

Question: Which racing driver won the 1994 Formula One Championship?
Answer: Michael Schumacher