Marussia Motors was a Russian sports car company founded in 2007. It is considered the first Russian company to produce a supercar.[1] It designed, and manufactured prototypes of both the B1 and the B2 sport cars. Marussia was led by former motor racer Nikolai Fomenko. The Marussia B1 was launched in December 2008 in the new Manege hall in Moscow.
In 2010, it acquired a "significant stake" in the Virgin Racing Formula One team,[2] which was later renamed Marussia F1. The team competed in F1 from to .[3]
In April 2014, the Marussia Motors company was disbanded, with staff leaving to join a government-run technical institute. The Marussia F1 team continued unaffected as a British entity, independent of the Russian car company. However, on 7 November 2014 the administrator announced that the F1 team had ceased trading.[4]