Genuinely new teams are a rarity in 21st century Formula 1, given building up a new constructor from scratch is almost prohibitively difficult. Yet in 2010, four newcomers were granted a place as the grid expanded to 13 teams, meaning F1 should have hit 26 cars for the first time since 1995. Infamously, USF1 collapsed before it ever participated in an F1 race, although Lotus Racing, Virgin and HRT made it. Or at least, they did for a time, as all had vanished by 2017. So let’s look back at what led to that flurry of newcomers and why they failed to stick it out in F1. 00:00 An F1 rarity 00:38 The push for new teams 02:57 Shifting landscape 04:05 Tales of failure Subscribe: http://the-race.com/youtube_subscribe Website: http://the-race.com/ Twitter: @wearetherace Instagram: @wearetherace Facebook: http://facebook.com/wearetherace Podcasts: http://the-race.com/podcasts Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, please also hit subscribe to show your support so we'll keep do