Drivers who have driven for multiple teams

[Antonov]

Topic title might be slightly misleading.

What I mean is: let's name the drivers, irrespective of series, who have driven for multiple teams (at least 4+).

The idea came after reading that, if Alonso wins the Monaco GP this weekend, he will be the first to do so for three different teams.

Drivers I can think of in the category of F1:

Alonso (4)
- Minardi (2001)
- Renault (2003-2006 & 2008-2009)
- McLaren (2007)
- Ferrari (2010-2013)

Raikkonen (4)
- Sauber (2001)
- McLaren (2002-2006)
- Ferrari (2007-2009, stated it would be his last)
- Lotus (2012-2013)

Patrese (6)
- Shadow (1977)
- Arrows (1978-1981)
- Brabham (1982-1983 & 1986-1987)
- Alfa (1984-1985)
- Williams (1988-1992)
- Benetton (1993)

[Cheeveer]

Topic title might be slightly misleading.

And completely stupid.

Anyways, you should buy The Complete Book Of Formula 1. Andrea de Cesaris may ring a bell?

[kals]

Title changed.

Is this just about F1, or can other forms of motorsport be considered?

On the subject of F1...

Mansell (4)
Lotus
Williams
Ferrari
McLaren

Prost (4)
McLaren
Renault
Ferrari
Williams

Senna (4)
Toleman
Lotus
McLaren
Williams

Button (7)
Williams
Benetton
Renault
BAR
Honda
Brawn
McLaren

Schumacher (4)
Jordan
Benetton
Ferrari
Mercedes

Brundle (8)
Tyrrell
Zakspeed
Brabham
Williams
Benetton
Ligier
McLaren
Jordan

Alesi (6)
Tyrrell
Ferrari
Benetton
Sauber
Prost
Jordan

Frentzen (5)
Sauber
Williams
Jordan
Prost
Arrows

[Cheeveer]

de Cesaris (10)
Alfa Romeo
McLaren
Ligier
Minardi
Brabham
Rial
Dallara
Jordan
Tyrrell
Sauber

Let's see, Hans Stuck was a factory driver for pretty much every manufacturer there was in sports car and touring car racing.

From racingsportscars.com:

Years of activity: 1969-2001, 2003-2004, 2009
Number of races: 476 (including 14 races where did not start)
Total entries: 516 (contains 296 finishes and 171 retirements, finishing ratio: 63%)

Most frequent makes: BMW (208), Porsche (154), March (37), Audi (21), Brabham (20), Shadow (20), ATS (18), Ford (17), Sauber (8), Riley & Scott (5), Sehcar (3)
Most frequent types: 962 (74), M1 (45), 3.0 CSL (38), 320i (30), 635 CSi (27), 956 (25), M3 E46 (23), BT45 (20), 911 Turbo (19), Capri (17), 761 (17), 911 GT1 (16)

Teams include Ford Werke AG, BMW Motorsport, BMW Alpina, Team Schnitzer, Brun Motorsport, Porsche AG, Joest Racing, Audi's works DTM team and many others.

[kals]

Barrichello (6)
Jordan
Stewart
Ferrari
Honda
Brawn
Williams

Boutsen (5)
Arrows
Benetton
Williams
Ligier
Jordan

Gachot (6)
Onyx
Rial
Coloni
Jordan
Larrousse
Pacific

Warwick (6)
Toleman
Renault
Brabham
Arrows
Lotus
Footork

[Everso Biggyballies]

Andrea de Cesaris may ring a bell?

I guess the one thing that surprises me with De Crasheris in the stat zone is that most know he drove for more teams than any other driver, but, given his record in having the odd physical contact with others, be it cars or objects, but he actually scored points for 9 of those 10 teams. In those days that means he finished top 6 to score those points.

No one has ever scored points for more different teams / constructors than Andrea. The same with engines.... he has scored points with more different engine makers than anyone else in WDC history. But also of course he tops the list of consecutive DNFs with 22

Going back to the whore angle then Sir Stirling Moss was a bit of a parlour favourite..... He actually I think matched the teams / constructors driven for number of De Cesaris. (10) Seeing as we have a few lists going here, lets have a list of the 10 for Moss:

Maserati
Vanwall
Lotus
Cooper
Mercedes
ERA
HWM
Connaught
BRM
Ferguson.


But no one scored more wins with different teams than Moss, (5)and no one has scored podiums with more teams (6) or WON GPs with more engine constructors (4 - Moss is matched by Fangio Berger, Prost and Lauda).

But if Moss is a whore then Fangio is the real Madame.....

Fangio managed to win World Championship titles with FOUR different constructors.

[Antonov]

thanks for the replies and indeed the rather wise change of topic title

naturally we don't have to limit ourselves to F1. I imagine some NASCAR drivers must border on the line of infinity

[EB]

Surely Moss only won WDC races with 4 teams?

Mercedes, Maserati, Vanwall and Rob Walker

"Makes of car" rather than "teams" would be the pedant's correction.

[SBan83]

First one that comes to mind is Fangio of course but Joe Weatherly drove for no less than nine different teams during the course of a single season to win his second championship in 1963.

http://racing-reference.info/wc.htm

[Everso Biggyballies]

Surely Moss only won WDC races with 4 teams?

Mercedes, Maserati, Vanwall and Rob Walker

"Makes of car" rather than "teams" would be the pedant's correction.

Hehehehe, of course you are right, and for my part I was clear to identify that I was talking more of manufacturers (Makers of cars) than teams. So I will raise your Mercedes, Maserati and Vanwall, adding a Cooper and a Lotus

I must admit that I thought that at some stage Moss had swapped his Walker Lotus for a works car, winning in the works car. I think it was probably Ireland's car he used....

In fact it was with 'I.I.', at the Italian GP of 1961 that Moss swapped a Walker Lotus 18 car that SSM could not get on with the works Lotus 21 of I.I.... Moss never won on that day, so that blows that possibility.

[Speedworx]

Casey Mears (7)

Ganassi
Hendrick
Richard Childress
Key Motorsports
Red Bull Racing
Tommy Baldwin Racing
Germain Racing

[Sam]

Mika Salo raced for seven teams in F1
Lotus
Tyrrell
Arrows
BAR
Ferrari
Sauber
Toyota


On the rallying side, Juha Kankkunen springs to mind... If you only count factory teams he raced for six different manufacturers (Toyota, Peugeot, Lancia, Ford, Subaru, Hyundai) and won World Championships for three of those makes (Toyota, Peugeot, Lancia).

As far as raw numbers go, though, Didier Auriol trumps that with factory entries for eight manufacturers (MG Rover, Ford, Lancia, Toyota, Subaru, Seat, Peugeot and Skoda).

Kenneth Eriksson also has six (VW, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Hyundai, Skoda).