So here it is merry Christmas, everybody is having fun besides Team Lotus in December 1991! Look to the future now, it’s only just begun. Well, it is 1990, though 1991 rhymes better. Some of you might get wrapped up if not correcting directly after it. Anyway, it’s the 8th of December 1990. Probably a […]
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Many of you will probably say that politics can’t go hand in hand with Formula One. The global opinion around the globe is that there is no place for politics within any kind of sports. Well this might be the conception the reality is the opposite. Politics is part of the sport, this counts even […]
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There is something magical about the late 1980s and early 1990s about the Formula One. I usually describe it as the power outcome of the last victory of the real Turbo engine era. I would almost describe it as a mythical being. That appeared after the last Turbo engine sang it’s song on Australian soil. […]
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Henny Vollenberg saved the March team when he purchased it in 1992. While there was almost no money, though a warehouse full of spare-parts, the team did the impossible and Karl Wendlinger even scored three points with the outdated March CG911B in Canada! Jan Lammers and Emanuele Naspetti finished the season for the team. For […]
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Jean-Paul Driot and René Arnoux founded DAMS that stands for Driot-Arnoux Motorsports in 1988. From the early stages of their existence, in 1988 their drivers Erik comas and Éric Bernard finished second and third in the International Formula 300 Championship. A year later Comas would win the championship title. A result Olivier Panis equalled in […]
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I personally always liked the small Larrousse team. Besides their colourful liveries and sponsors like Kronenbourg/Tourtel, it are also the results on the circuits. Larrousse is one of those teams that came in the Formula One after the Turbo engines were forbidden. Their best year was 1990 when Aguri Suzuki managed to finish third during […]
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In the early 1990s there seemed to be two countries with countless drivers ready to race in the Formula One. At that time in France, the government was heavily involved with supporting French drivers. In Japan at that time, there was the highly competitive Japanese F3000 championship, which later better known as the Formula Nippon. […]
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Hurray, 1995 arrived! A new year, a new season, and the second year for Pacific Grand Prix on the grid. The team begins the team with new hope, a new car and with an alliance with Team Lotus. Indeed, Team Lotus did not appear completely from the grid this year. No, they are now with […]
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In 1991, several new teams appeared on the grid, one of them was Jordan Grand Prix. The team came with the beautiful Jordan 191 with 7UP sponsorship. Perhaps the team had one of the most successful debuts in the Formula One in history. With several fourth, fifth and sixth finishes the team managed to score […]
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