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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Life Racing Engines emerged in the Formula One in 1990, their original plan was to debut in 1989. A year before Ernesto Vita convinced retired Ferrari engineer Franco Rocchi to come out of retirement and continue to develop his W12 concept. The plan behind it was to sell the engine concept to a well-funded team […]
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A mouth full of a title to make the statement that the time is ripe for the Historical Formula One Championship to bring in the 90s cars. Ten years or even longer ago there were already the beast of the 80s on the historical grids. Growling their atmospheric engines before the Turbo’s kicked in. Also […]
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There was once a time in the Formula One when no one said Alive like he Life F190. The true art of Formula One, the passion is the forgotten beauty we can’t remember, we won’t remember or simply because it never happened. It is the Life F190 that symbolised todays confusing times in the Formula […]
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Formule Hopeloos, ik voel me best hopeloos bevooroordeeld nu. Hoe schrijf ik een review over dit prachtige boek, waarin ik op voorhand al positief in ben bevooroordeeld, een boek waar mijn naam na drie pagina’s al te lezen is, toch neutraal? Nou dat is nogal een opgave. Ik schrijf deze review dan ook vanuit een […]
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There were decades in the Formula One that there were more teams and drivers than places on the grid. Forty entrants for a Grand Prix was no exception, it was the reality in the 1980s and 1990s. While we all known the ill-fated teams as Pacific, Coloni, Osella, EuroBrun, Zakspeed and so on. There is […]
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1990 was in all aspects not that spectacular. Zakspeed and Rial disappeared from the grid due financial issues and Life Racing Engines made its debut, note this is basically the First team, powered by their controversial V12 engine concept. Besides a season that was dominated by McLaren it was also an season with interesting Unraced […]
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