Who sponsors each F1 team in 2022?

Formula 1 is the highest category of motorsport, and in it each team of the ten that make up the current grid puts two single-seaters to try to achieve glory throughout a season full of challenges.

However, to make the economic sustainability of each team possible, it is necessary for them to find sponsors who pay to appear on the cars through stickers, on the clothes worn by the members of the group, or for the drivers themselves to carry out advertisements or promotional acts. .

Some teams have more than others, but these are all the ones in the 2022 Big Circus season.

Ferrari

Ferrari has a long history, it is not considered the most successful team in the history of Formula 1 for nothing, so hundreds of sponsors raise the bid to appear in the red cars. In this 2022 there is a great novelty, and it is the return of Banco Santander , who were already linked at the time of Fernando Alonso.

The Spanish company is joined by other historic Prancing Horse , such as Shell , a hydrocarbon company, Puma , as a supplier of clothing, or Velas, dedicated to the cryptocurrency market and which has experienced an exponential boom in the category.

Others are personal sponsors of the drivers, but have been added to the team as one more, such as Estrella Galicia thanks to Carlos Sainz or Richard Mille with Charles Leclerc. In addition, Pirelli appears in all the groups of the grid for being the only official tire supplier of Formula 1.

Red Bull

Red Bull surprised before presenting its new RB18 by signing with Oracle , a company specializing in the development of cloud and database solutions, that is, a software company. This agreement is one of the largest in the history of the Great Circus, as they contribute nearly 450 million euros over the five-year contract they enjoy, that is, they meet almost the total budget limit only with this sponsorship .

Added to this are others such as TAG Heuer , dedicated to luxury watches and who named Red Bull power units a few years ago, Tezos and Bybit , other cryptocurrency companies, or the most striking, HRC , its biker , from which they separated but returned after a few months.

Mercedes

The Germans have had Petronas for many seasons, and it is their main sponsor, giving the team its name. Another important part is that of INEOS , which owns a third of the team, so its sponsorship is evident, and it stands out with that red color on the gray of the Lewis Hamilton and George Russell car.

More major companies listed among Mercedes sponsors are UBS , a Swiss bank, TeamViewer , a software for technological remote access, or IWC , a luxury watch company.

Alpine

The French team reached an agreement before the presentation of the A522 for BWT , a water treatment company, to become the main partner of the team, giving way to the official name of BWT Alpine F1 Team. In addition, as a principle of this sponsorship, the Gauls, for the first two races of the 2022 season, wear a totally pink decoration, to later leave the usual blue colors of Enstone.

The presence of BWT in the car is evident, but also that of Castrol , which works with lubricants for vehicles, and that last year they added some green for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on the occasion of the 100 grands prizes together. Also noteworthy is the advertising of Mapfre , a Spanish multinational dedicated to insurance.

For clothing, Alpine left Le Coq Sportif behind to use Kappa , an Italian brand, although for their blue and pink suits and gloves, obviously sponsored by BWT, they use Alpinestars .

McLaren

Those from Woking have presented several decoration changes in their cars in recent seasons, but have maintained the presence of A Better Tomorrow , an advertisement for electronic cigarettes. However, the company that actually advertises with these stickers is BAT (British American Tobacco), dedicated to the tobacco industry, something prohibited in Formula 1 since 2006 after a compromise reached by the FIA in 2001.

The collaboration between McLaren and BAT began in 2020, but the harsh regulations against tobacco advertising have made them try to circumvent the laws in different ways with sponsorships such as Vype , Velo or Vuse , all as a reference to electronic cigarettes or vapers, but it is a form of covert sponsorship, in the style of what Ferrari was doing with Mission Winnow and Philip Morris until the end of 2021.

The most recent additions are Android and Chrome , an operating system and a web browser, both managed by Google , so in a way it is a single company that sponsors the British team.

AlphaTauri

Those from Faenza have the clear support of Red Bull, hence they do not have so many sponsors, but the Italians have been able to carve out a niche in the grid market to attract companies and add a few million more to their budgets.

Fantom , a cryptocurrency company appears on several stickers in the 2022 season AT03, so they are sure to contribute a good amount, as does Randstad , an insurance company, or Epicor, an American business dedicated to enterprise software.

DAZN has also chosen AlphaTauri to have a presence at the Grand Circus, and one of the team’s drivers, Yuki Tsunoda, is the ambassador for the sports streaming platform in Japan.

Alfa Romeo

The Swiss of Sauber adopted the Alfa Romeo name from the course of 2018, so the Italian car manufacturer is well present in the team. In addition, its reserve driver, Robert Kubica, contributes several million to the budget thanks to the sponsorship of PNK ORLEN , a Polish oil refining company, and that is why we have seen the Krakow driver get into the car on several occasions without being a starter.

They also have other partners, such as Puma , which supplies the clothing, or Ferrari Trento , which despite having the same name as the other team on the grid, is not a manufacturer of luxury vehicles, but is dedicated to the production of wine and spirits in the city of Trento. This brand may sound like more than one, and it is that they are the ones who provide the bottles that are uncorked on the Formula 1 podiums thanks to an agreement that lasts until 2023.

Aston Martin

Lawrence Stroll’s team moved from Racing Point to Aston Martin for the 2021 season, bringing one of motorsport’s legendary names back to the Grand Circus. The British enjoy a juicy agreement with Aramco , which became their main sponsor and appears in the official nomenclature.

This Saudi company is one of the richest in the world, and works in the oil refining sector, in addition to having more than 76,000 employees on the planet and another contract to be one of the most important partners in Formula 1, hence that its logo appears in many of the great prizes on the posters or in the pitlane itself.

Williams

The legendary team founded by Sir Frank Williams has been in decline for a few years in the Great Circus due to its poor results, which has caused many of its sponsors to leave. However, their journey to recovery seems to be on the right track, and they have managed to reach some interesting agreements for 2022, such as the one they have with Duracell , a company dedicated to the production of batteries and flashlights.

Known for their famous rabbit, they have joined others such as Sofina , an international holding company for investments in various sectors based in Brussels. It is not uncommon to see this company at Williams, as the owner of the company is the father of one of the drivers, Nicholas Latifi.

Haas

The American team has a curious history with its sponsors in the short time they have been on the grid, and their legal dispute with Rich Energy is well known, who did not pay what they had in the contract but managed to paint the car with their black colors and gold throughout 2019.

The lack of results in 2020 caused many to leave the team, and in 2021 it was even worse, as they did not score a single point with Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin, although they attracted 1&1 and Uralkali respectively.

In the case of the German, the communications company of his country joined Haas thanks to his arrival, although from the group they affirm that this had nothing to do with it and that Schumacher earned the seat on his own merits, and there is no need to forget that he was F2 champion in 2020.

For the Russian, it was a bit more eventful, and Uralkali became Haas’ main sponsor in 2021. The deal evidently came from the purchase of Dmitry Mazepin’s seat from his son Nikita, but this only lasted a year, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine caused ties to break and the chemical company said goodbye to the Great Circus.