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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Keith Wiggins establish Pacific Racing a successful team in the International F3000, won the title with David Coulthard and finalised his dream. The dream to enter the Formula One, in a time with worldwide financial struggles. The very first talk about this was already in 1991 when Wiggins was linked in a take-over of a […]
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The late 1980s and the early 1990s is filled with stories about investment groups and individuals with money who were keen to appear on the grid with their own team. Some even managed to appear on the grid like Eddie Jordan. Many, obviously, never made it to the grid in these years. Some appeared on […]
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Not that long ago i found in my archive some small article about Lola in 1993. It wasn’t about their disappointing Lola T93/30 design as you may expect. It was about the team’s perspective for the future and their plans to appear once again as a team on the grid. They were ready or should […]
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The story about Simtek, Simulation Technology, goes beyond their two years they appeared on the grid. Established by Nick Wirth and Max Mosley in 1989 as Simtek Research. Initially born as a company that supported teams in the Formula One with developing programs, calibrate wind tunnels, assist teams and so on. The first time Simtek […]
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The 1970s was the last era in the Formula One where drivers and team could enter with a so called kit-car. Many examples are in existing of these teams and drivers that tried their luck. If it was only to taste the Formula One in those days. It is therefore interesting to understand that all […]
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The 1980s were some special era in the Formula One. We went from atmospheric towards 1200HP Turbo engines back to atmospheric. This all happened in period of ten years. An interesting era with lots of hard fighting, controversy and amazing battles on the grid. It is also the era of teams leaving like ATS only […]
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The 1990s it seems the booming era of unraced projects, rumours and wild-west stories. The list of projects in the late 1980s and the early 1990s is immense. There seems to be no end to the list. When you think you have them all, there is another long forgotten consortium that was peeking into the […]
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While March (nee Leyton House) was in 1990 positively about their future in the Formule One, this would change only a season later. When in September 1991 Akira Akagi was implicated in a financial scandal involving the Fuji Bank and his Marusho Kosan Company. Therefore, Akagi was arrested and Leyton House moved rapidly into bankruptcy. […]
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