If there is one thing really interesting about the late 1980s and early 1990s it is the amount of drivers that had a chance to drive in the Formula One. Many of them did not had the needed financial support or were just simply refused by, back then, the FISA for a super license. What […]
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The fans who are interested in the obscure and forgotten Formula One know the Life Racing Engines team for sure. Entering the Formula One in 1990 with an one-year-old car that failed to pass the FIA crash test in 1989. Fitted with their own in-house designed W12 engine it became a recipe for failure. The […]
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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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There was a possibility that in 1990 over twenty teams could appear on the grid. After the ban of Turbo engines the amount of teams on the grid exploded with the peak in 1989 and 1990. For 1990 EuroBrun announced they would enter two cars while Life Engineering made it’s debut on the grid with […]
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March Racing Team underwent a name change during the winter of 1989/1990. Leyton House was the teams’ title sponsor for a couple of seasons and from 1990 onwards, it became Leyton House Racing. The car kept its Miami Blue colour scheme while Adrian Newey was working on their new challenger the CG901. However, the CG901 […]
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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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The 10th of December 1990 a day, that would backfire eight months later in the face of Bertrand Gachot. That day Bertrand on his way to the Carlton Towers in London to negotiate with Eddie Jordan and 7UP he came bumper to bumper with a cab driver. After he and Eddie were speaking to each […]
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What you may not know is the fact that Pirelli has been in the Formula One since 1950. Not since 2011. Besides Pirelli, also Dunlop, Firestone and Englebert were active as supplier in 1950. The manufacturer would stay In the Formula One until 1958 when they supplied the Maserati’s on the grid. With a brief […]
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Andrea de Cesaris is one of the Formula One drivers that appeared on the grid for fifteen seasons! Debuting in 1980 for Alfa Romeo in Canada, only to retire 14 years later after the European Grand Prix for Sauber. An interesting career that delivered him the nickname already in 1981 when he managed to crash […]
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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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