With Andretti announcing plans for an F1 entry in the future, we’ve taken a look back at some infamous examples of teams who came and then vanished just as quickly…
Lola: It is with enormous regret that a decision has been taken to issue Notices of intention to appoint an Administrator to Lola Cars International Limited and Lola Composites Limited.
Status Grand Prix has announced plans to develop an LMP2 sports car programme, with the intention of competing in the full FIA World Endurance Championship in 2013.
Three Lolas-Aston Martin will start from the first and second rows of the grid for the N?rburgring 1,000kms this weekend - with the stated aim to replicate that performance when the points are handed out on race day.
F1's first American team in more than two decades - the Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson-led USF1 - has begun an evaluation process of home-grown talent to occupy its two seats on the grand prix grid in 2010...and IndyCar's leading lady Danica Patrick 'is on the list'.
N.Technology has withdrawn its application for a slot on the 2010 F1 World Championship starting grid, blaming the FIA's 'highly questionable process' of selection, 'wrong actions' and 'objectionable management methods' that it contends have 'undermined the sport as a whole' - and along with Prod
After rumours had swept the Formula 1 paddock, it has now been officially confirmed that award-winning R&D company Wirth Research has tied up a deal with Manor Grand Prix to design and build the Yorkshire-based outfit's maiden challenger in the top flight.
The list of potential new entrants onto the 2010 Formula 1 starting grid in the top flight's budget-capped era is 'a joke' and mere 'provocation' by FIA President Max Mosley, Flavio Briatore has blasted - as the FIA-FOTA dispute shows no signs of reaching a resolution and the spectre of a 'breaka
Newly-crowned A1GP Champion Adam Carroll has challenged Formula 1 teams to take a punt on his services in 2010, by insisting: I can fight for the world championship!
Barely a year on from his withdrawal from a sport he emotionally described as 'a piranha club', Aguri Suzuki has revealed that Super Aguri could be in-line for a shock return to competition in the top flight in Formula 1's new 'low-cost' era in 2010.
Barely two weeks after Ron Dennis revealed that he is to step down from his role as McLaren team principal after almost three decades at the helm, it has been announced that his predecessor Teddy Mayer has died aged 73.
Norbert Haug has stressed that the survival of independent teams in Formula 1 is vital to the future livelihood of the sport, describing such concerns as Williams and Force India as 'the heart of Formula 1, not just cannon fodder'.