With India’s Vijay Mallya, the liquor and airline baron, picking up a 50 per cent stake in struggling Formula One team Spyker, here’s a quick glance at the profiles of the current teams and how they have been faring this year:

McLAREN

Base: Woking, UK

Team Principal: Ron Dennis

Drivers: F. Alonso, L. Hamilton

Test Drivers: P. de la Rosa, G. Paffett

Points this year: 148

FERRARI

Chairman and President: Luca di Montezemolo

CEO: Jean Todt

Base: Maranello, Italy

Drivers: F. Massa, K. Räikkönen

Test Drivers: L. Badoer

Points this year: 137

BMW SAUBER

Team Principal: Mario Theissen

Base: Munich, Germany/Hinwil, Switzerland

Drivers: N. Heidfeld, R. Kubica

Test Drivers: T. Glock

Points this year: 77

RENAULT

Team principal: Flavio Briatore

Base: Enstone, UK

Drivers: G. Fisichella, H. Kovalainen

Test Drivers: N. Piquet, R Zonta

Points this year: 36

WILLIAMS

Team principals: Frank Williams, Patrick Head

Base: Grove, UK

Drivers: N. Rosberg, A. Wurz

Test Drivers: N. Karthikeyan, K. Nakajima

Points this year: 22

RED BULL

Team Principal: Christian Horner

Base: Milton Keynes, UK

Drivers: D. Coulthard, M. Webber

Test Drivers: M. Ammermuller, R. Doornbos

Points this year: 16

TOYOTA

Base: Koln, Germany

Team principal: Tadashi Yamashina

Drivers: R. Schumacher, J. Trulli

Test Drivers: F. Montagny

Points this year: 12

SUPER AGURI

Team principal: Aguri Suzuki

Base: Leafield, UK

Drivers: T. Sato, A. Davidson

Test Drivers: J. Rossiter

Points this year: 4

HONDA

Team principal: Nick Fry

Base: Brackley, UK

Drivers: J. Button, R. Barrichello

Test Drivers: C. Klien

Points this year: 1

TORO ROSSO

Team principal: Franz Tost

Base: Faenza, Italy

Drivers: V. Liuzzi, S. Vettel

Points this year: 0

SPYKER

Team Principal: Colin Kolles

Base: Silverstone, UK

Drivers: A. Sutil, S. Yamamoto

Test Drivers: F. Fauzy, A Valles, M. Winkelhock

Points this year: 0