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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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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The Future looked bright for Leyton House Racing at the start of the 1991 season. Akira Akagi acquired March Engineer including the F1 Team, their Formula 3000 operations and their wind tunnel in 1989. The entire operation was renamed Leyton House Racing, an operation that had more than enough money it seems. While the CG901 […]
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The champagne drops dried up on the streets of Monaco, where only hours ago an amazing Grand Prix was seen by millions. Roberto Moreno managed to qualify his unqualifiable Andrea Moda S921, with the help of Elf they say, the race finished for the team in lap 11 when he spun-off. Bertrand Gachot finished sixth […]
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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 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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It’s a hot, sunny and humid day when the drivers parked their cars on the starting grid for the 1993 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami. Fans next to the track are enjoying a cold cola or a cold Beer while discussion random Formula One. On that same starting grid, two drivers are missing Jan […]
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In modern Formula One there are only twenty cars on the grid and everything becomes more and more tightened regulated. There is room for three more teams on the grid. However, due to the ridiculous amount of money you have to pay just to be even granted access to the circus there will never be […]
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Where are the days in the Formula One, when shady team owners appeared on the grid? Mostly to burn their money in a team that would fail on forehand. It were those teams that brought the atmosphere and the vibes in the paddock. Well that is, if you ask me of course. One of these […]
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Leyton House Racing appeared on the grid in 1990, it was of course the March F1 Team that re-appeared on the grid in 1987. Sponsored by Leyton House a Japanese real-estate company. Where 1990 eventually was a good season, 1991 began badly. Financial struggle, and eventually the arrest of Akira Akagi in September was the […]
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