What is the Formula One World Constructors' Championship?
Q: What is the Formula One World Constructors' Championship?
A: The Formula One World Constructors' Championship (WCC) is an award given by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to the most successful constructor of the year.
Q: How is the Constructors' Championship awarded?
A: The Constructors' Championship is awarded to the constructor that scores the most points during a season. Points are determined by adding up all of the points scored in each race by all drivers for that constructor.
Q: When was the first Constructors' Championship awarded?
A: The first Constructors' Championship was awarded in 1958, to Vanwall.
Q: How many different constructors have won it?
A: In 61 seasons, only 15 different constructors have won it.
Q: Who has been the most successful constructor?
A: Scuderia Ferrari has been the most successful with 16 titles.
Q: How were points calculated prior to 1979?
A: Prior to 1979, a constructor was only awarded points from their highest-scoring driver in each race.
Q: How often has a driver won a World Drivers’ Champion title without their team winning a World Constructor’s Champion title in that same year?
A:: Only ten times has this happened.
