Jaguar
In 1997 three-times world champion Jackie Stewart entered F1 as a team boss, partnered, unsurprisingly, by Ford, with whom he had enjoyed such spectacular success three decades earlier. The highlight for the fledgling team came with Johnny Herbert's victory at the 1999 European GP. A year later Ford bought Stewart out and entered the 2000 championship rebranded as Jaguar, which was a Ford subsidiary. There were high hopes for the Milton Keynes-based team as the blue-and-white livery of Stewart-Ford gave way to the green of Jaguar, but the next five years were to be fraught with disappointment. Personnel changes — including Stewart's departure as team principal before the start of the 2000 season — didn't help.
"Irvine delivers first podium"
Eddie Irvine, runner-up to Schumacher in 1999, arrived from Ferrari, but his 4 points represented the entire haul for the debut season. Irvine did give the team its first podium finish, at Monaco in 2001, and the Ulsterman repeated that achievement at Monza a year later, but the successes were few and far between; Jaguar's return for those two campaigns was just 17 points. Mark Webber and Christian Klien between them could manage just five sixth-place finishes in the following two seasons. That meant a five-year haul of just 49 points from 85 races. In September 2004 it was announced that the team was being sold to one of its sponsors, Red Bull, the energy drink company owned by Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz.
