Petronas (acronym for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, National Petroleum Limited) is the government-owned national petroleum corporation of Malaysia. Petronas is a contraction of Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Malaysian National Oil Company Inc.). The company was formed in 1974, after Malaysia joined OPEC, and is one of the most profitable in the world.
Petronas has been heavily involved in motorsport in recent years. It had been the primary sponsor of all the Malaysian Grands Prix from 1999 to 2017, and is a co-sponsor of the Chinese Grand Prix. Petronas was the sponsorship partner of Sauber (and also BMW Sauber) from 1995 through 2009, and since then it has partnered Mercedes from 2010.
Formula One history[]
As a team sponsor[]
| Team | Years |
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| As a title sponsor | |
| Sauber | 1995-2005 |
| BMW Sauber | 2006-2009 |
| Mercedes | 2010-present |
| V T E |  Sauber F1 Team
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| Former drivers Bottas · Ericsson · Leclerc · Wehrlein · Nasr · Hülkenberg · Pérez · Kobayashi · Kubica · Heidfeld · Räikkönen · Zhou · more | ||
| Former Personnel Frédéric Vasseur · Pascal Picci · Alex Sauber · Eric Gandelin · Timothée Guerin · Axel Kruse · Beat Zehnder | ||
| Engine Suppliers Ilmor (1993) · Mercedes (1994) · Ford (1995-96) · Petronas (1997-2005) · Ferrari (2010-2018) | ||
| Cars C12 · C13 · C14 · C15 · C16 · C17 · C18 · C19 · C20 · C21 · C22 · C23 · C24 · F1.06 · F1.07 · F1.08 · F1.09 · C29 · C30 · C31 · C32 · C33 · C34 · C35 · C36 · C37 · C44 | ||
| See also BMW Sauber · Alfa Romeo | ||
| V T E |  BMW
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| Personnel Willy Rampf · Peter Sauber · Mario Theissen | ||
Drivers Ernst Klodwig ·  Marcel Balsa · Günther Bechem · Rudolf Krause · Nick Heidfeld ·  Robert Kubica · Sebastian Vettel ·  Jacques Villeneuve
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| Cars (as Constructor) Eigenbau · Special · 269 | ||
Cars (as Engine Supplier) Frazer Nash (1952): 421 AFM (1952–1953): 6 Klenk (1954): Meteor Lola (1967–1968): T100 · T102 Brabham (1982–1987): BT50 · BT52/BT52B · BT53 · BT54 · BT55 · BT56 ATS (1983–1984): D6 · D7 Arrows (1984–1988)*: A7 · A8 · A9 · A10/A10B Benetton (1986): B186 Ligier (1987)*: JS29B/JS29C Williams (2000–2005): FW22 · FW23 · FW24 · FW25 · FW26 · FW27 BMW Sauber (2006–2009): F1.06 · F1.07 · F1.08 · F1.09
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| Full Results BMW · BMW Sauber | ||
| * Indicates as BMW engines were re-badged as Megatron in 1987 and 1988. | ||
| V T E |  Mercedes Grand Prix
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| Current drivers 44. Lewis Hamilton · 63. George Russell
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World Champions Juan Manuel Fangio (1954, 1955) · Lewis Hamilton (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) · Nico Rosberg (2016)
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| Former Drivers Michael Schumacher · Juan Manuel Fangio · Nico Rosberg · Valtteri Bottas · Hans Herrmann · Karl Kling · Stirling Moss · André Simon · Piero Taruffi · Hermann Lang | |||
| Personnel Nick Fry · Bob Bell · Aldo Costa · Toto Wolff | |||
| Former Personnel Norbert Haug · Alfred Neubauer · Max Sailer · Rudolf Uhlenhaut · Paddy Lowe | |||
| Cars W154 · W196 · W01 · W02 · W03 · W04 · W05 · W06 · W07 · W08 · W09 · W10 · W11 · W12 · W13 · W14 · W15 | |||