Marussia F1 Team

The team scored its first and only championship points at the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix, where Jules Bianchi finished ninth, making Marussia the first Russian-licensed constructor to score world championship points. In 2016, following rescue from administration, the team competed as Manor Racing before ceasing operations at the end of that season.

In 2009, Manor Grand Prix were awarded an entry into Formula One for the 2010 season, as a collaboration between successful junior racing team Manor Motorsport and Wirth Research. Before the end of that year, Richard Branson's Virgin Group secured title sponsorship and the entity became known as Virgin Racing. Marussia Motors was one of the team's partners for the debut season, in which the team finished twelfth and last in the Constructors' Championship. In November 2010, Marussia Motors purchased a controlling stake, rebranding the team as Marussia Virgin Racing for 2011.

Following a disappointing start to the 2011 season, the team parted with Wirth Research and entered a partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies ahead of 2012, relocating from Dinnington to the former Wirth premises in Banbury. The team again finished bottom of the Constructors' Championship in 2011. In November 2011, it applied to the Formula One commission to change its constructor name from Virgin to Marussia; permission was granted and ratified by the FIA World Motor Sport Council.

On 31 December 2011, the team announced it was now the Marussia F1 Team. Virgin retained its sponsorship with logos on the 2012 car. Timo Glock, who had signed a three-year contract with the team in July 2011, was joined by GP2 Series graduate Charles Pic.

The 2012 car, the MR01, was designed under technical consultant Pat Symonds. It was the only car at the season opener not to feature KERS — a status that lasted one race weekend, after rival HRT also removed its KERS. Prior to the final pre-season test at Barcelona, on 27 February the team announced the MR01 had failed the last of the mandatory 18 FIA crash tests, causing the team to miss final testing.

On 3 July 2012, test driver María de Villota was performing straight-line aerodynamic tests at Duxford Airfield when she crashed heavily into the lift gate of the team transporter. She lost her right eye as a result; she died a year later from her injuries. At Spa the team's 50th Grand Prix as Virgin/Marussia, Pic was fastest in free practice 2 and Glock sixth — the team's highest-ever result in an official session, aided by heavy rain limiting the number of drivers setting times. Glock's twelfth-place finish in Singapore was at the time the team's best race result, briefly elevating Marussia to tenth in the Constructors' Championship ahead of Caterham and HRT. However, at the season finale in Brazil, Vitaly Petrov finished eleventh for Caterham, reclaiming tenth place and its associated prize money.

Max Chilton was announced for the 2013 season on 18 December 2012, making his Formula One debut. Timo Glock departed for commercial reasons; Luiz Razia followed due to sponsorship difficulties. Jules Bianchi, a Ferrari Driver Academy member, made his Formula One debut with the team. Rodolfo González was appointed reserve driver in March 2013.

Throughout the year, Marussia and Caterham remained at the back of the grid, though both demonstrated good reliability. By season end, Marussia finished tenth in the Constructors' Championship ahead of Caterham, earning significant additional revenue for 2014. Chilton became the first rookie driver ever to finish every race in a season.

For 2014, Marussia powered the MR03 with Ferrari engines after Cosworth elected not to build an engine for the new 2014 regulations. Both Bianchi and Chilton were retained.

At the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix, Bianchi scored the team's first and only championship points with a ninth-place finish. On 24 July, American rookie Alexander Rossi joined as test and reserve driver from Caterham.

During the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on 5 October, Bianchi's car spun on lap 43 at the Dunlop curve (Turn 7), colliding with a marshal's crane tractor that was attending to Adrian Sutil's Sauber, which had crashed on the previous lap. The safety car was deployed and the race was red-flagged. Bianchi was unresponsive and taken by ambulance to Mie University hospital. His father confirmed a critical head injury requiring brain surgery. CT scans showed a severe head injury, and Bianchi was later reported to have suffered a diffuse axonal injury. He succumbed to his injuries in July 2015. Following Bianchi's former financial backer Andrey Cheglakov's later account, the Suzuka events were a key factor in his decision to withdraw financial support from the team.

At the inaugural Russian Grand Prix a week later, the team raced a single car driven by Chilton with a "#JB17" livery honouring Bianchi. The team publicly condemned speculative media reports about its direct role in the Suzuka accident.

On 25 October, it was announced that Marussia and Caterham would both miss the United States Grand Prix for financial reasons; Marussia also missed the Brazilian Grand Prix as a result of the coordinated freight logistics. On 7 October 2014, Marussia Manor Racing filed a notice in the London High Court to assign an administrator; the administrator released an official statement on 27 October 2014. Cheglakov confirmed his withdrawal to Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. The team's assets were put to auction in mid-December 2014; the Banbury base and designs for the 2015 car were reported to have been purchased by Gene Haas for the establishment of the Haas F1 Team. The team owed around £60 million, with McLaren and Ferrari among the creditors.

On 19 February 2015, Manor Motorsport's administrators announced the team had exited administration and would enter the 2015 season as Manor Marussia F1 Team, with John Booth and Graeme Lowdon continuing to run it. Businessman Stephen Fitzpatrick bought the team; Justin King — reportedly the main backer and whose son Jordan King joined as development driver — became chairman.

The team's request to use their 2014 chassis was initially reported as declined after Force India voted against it, though the team disputed this; Manor ultimately started the season with a modified version of the 2014 car updated to meet 2015 regulations. Will Stevens was confirmed as the first driver on 25 February; Roberto Merhi was announced on 9 March as the second driver.

The team completed mandatory crash testing on 5 March and were cleared for the Australian Grand Prix grid, though neither car completed a lap in Australia due to technical difficulties. At Malaysia, Merhi finished fifteenth. Prior to the Canadian Grand Prix, former Mercedes F1 team technical director Bob Bell joined as technical consultant, alongside several other key hirings including Gianluca Pisanello from Caterham as chief engineer and Luca Furbatto from Toro Rosso as head of design. Airbnb and Flex-Box became sponsors. From Singapore, Alexander Rossi replaced Merhi for five of the remaining seven Grands Prix; Merhi raced in Russia and the Abu Dhabi finale.

Ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix, team bosses Booth and Lowdon resigned effective at year end, citing differences with owner Fitzpatrick. After the 2015 season the team was renamed Manor Racing, and in 2016 competed with Mercedes-Benz power units.

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