Teams winning on their debut

[DaveKillens]

Regardless of Brawn's history, I would love to see his team bag a win. That would be fantastic.

[Roland Ehnström]

You youngsters forget about Jody Scheckter in the 1977 Wolf. New team with a new car.

Damn, I knew that! But I mixed up Wolf with Shadow and convinced myself that I was wrong.

[xpensive]

As I remember things, Jody won again at Monaco and was actually challenging for the title for a while, no?

[donskar]

You youngsters forget about Jody Scheckter in the 1977 Wolf. New team with a new car.

Good one, xpensive. I'm old enough to remember Wolf (vaguely) !

Seriously, I like Brawn, but the team is very much a renamed Honda (IMHO, of course!)

[donskar]

As I remember things, Jody won again at Monaco and was actually challenging for the title for a while, no?

Correct.

[Belatti]

You youngsters forget about Jody Scheckter in the 1977 Wolf. New team with a new car.

Damn, I knew that! But I mixed up Wolf with Shadow and convinced myself that I was wrong.

Yeah, Shadow and Wolf both had black painted cars

Also, Shadow won in Osterreichring with Alan Jones.

The 1977 season opener was in Argentina. Jody won also in Monaco and in Canada to finish 2nd that year, behind Lauda.

Before that, the other team winning on their debut was Mercedes Benz in 1954 with Fangio first and Karl Kling second, but was not the first race of the season (was the fourth)

[siskue2005]

I'm not sure that Brawn would count as a new team in comparison to the Wolf debut in 1977, it's a really just a continuation of Honda under a new name, whereas Wolf left he Willaims operation and set up their own team.

Wolf in 77 was a customer car, buying their chassis from brahbam, who were winners already