Who leads each IMS team into Season 7? The full TP line-up

Season 7's Team Principal grid is less a roll call than a study in radically different starting points. Five teams retain the leader already in place, four hand the role to a first-time principal and two begin new appointments with proven experience behind them.

That split matters before a wheel turns. Webbah87 arrives with 285 IMS races overseen; quenooo29, Charlotte, OGxFREED and L3on Tyl3r2500 arrive with none. Same job title, rather different first morning.

The old hands carry very different records

Webbah's record stretches across Williams and McLaren: 37 wins, 117 podiums and seven combined drivers' and constructors' titles before the Season 7 opener. Fredrumguit is the other genuine long-hauler, beginning at Alpine in Season 3 Round 5 and reaching Texas with 235 races and two titles on his ledger.

Ferrari's Sammy278 offers a shorter but denser résumé: 11 wins, 39 podiums and four combined WDC and WCC honours from 78 races in charge. Haas keeps Kaтю́shа Snowstorm, while Aardvark's late-Season 6 Red Bull appointment receives its first full campaign.

Audi and Cadillac hire experience under new badges

Jean_Claude04's Audi appointment begins at Round 1, but his TP career does not. Thirty races at Kick Sauber supplied two wins and four podiums before the move. TheShrizzzler brings the heavier handover to Cadillac: 66 races, 13 wins, 30 podiums and two titles from an Aston Martin spell.

They occupy the middle ground of this grid: neither debutants nor incumbents, but experienced principals beginning again with a different team name above the door.

Four rookies get no statistical shelter

Quenooo29 at Aston Martin, Charlotte at McLaren, OGxFREED at Mercedes and L3on Tyl3r2500 at defending BOTT champion VCARB all begin their first recorded TP appointments. Their zeroes in the dossier are not missing data; they are the point from which Season 7 starts judging them.

Texas begins a 12-round campaign across five divisions and a calendar that closes in Brazil. For the four first-time principals, it is a full season in which to build a record; for the other seven, a chance to extend or redefine one.