British American Racing

British American Racing, commonly shortened to BAR was a Formula One constructor which competed from 1999 until 2006. The team was formed as the result of a management buyout of the now-defunct Tyrrell team by tobacco company BAT, although only the championship entry was kept from the previous incarnation, with all new facilities in Brackley being built, then-technical director Harvey Posthelwaite moving to a stillborn Honda project and Ken Tyrrell departing in disgust at the new management's 1998 driver decisions.

After several seasons of massively over-promising (Team Principal Craig Pollock believed it possible to score a maiden win in their first race) and underperforming, leading to management turmoil in the early years of the team, the British squad managed to achieve some degree of success in its final seasons before being bought out successively to become first Honda, then Brawn and finally Mercedes, with these incarnations being linked by a common use of BAR's Brackley headquarters.