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12th April 2008, 15:24 #1
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F1 teams that never raced
Does anyone have a list of Formula One Teams that built a car, but never raced? I don't mean teams or groups that were planning to enter F1, I mean teams that built an F1 car, but it never raced for whatever reason.
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12th April 2008, 16:33 #2
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12th April 2008, 16:42 #3
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Originally Posted by wedge
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12th April 2008, 19:50 #4
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An interesting car that never raced was the 1989 car built by the First F3000 team to graduate to F1, they decided against it and the car was taken over a year later by the Italian Life team, but instead of using the Judd engine that the chassis was intended for they used a rather unique (in F1 circles anyway) W12 derived from 2x 1.5 litre V6's with the overall capacity enlarged to meet the 3.5 litre formula. An interesting concept, unfortunately it was pathetically slow and never got close to pre-qualifying, hence the same F1 car that was never raced by 2 separate teams!!!
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12th April 2008, 20:47 #5
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Originally Posted by philipbain
Here's more Life's woeful attempt at F1:
http://www.f1rejects.com/teams/life/profile.htmlTeam Super Friends the new factory Honda team.:D
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12th April 2008, 22:21 #6
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12th April 2008, 23:53 #7
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The Lola MasterCard team never really raced, the furthest they got was to DNQ on the 97 Australian Grand Prix
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13th April 2008, 01:17 #8
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Yeah they weren't quite as bad as this Life team though. You'd think that even with running a F3000 car they would be able to put something together that worked. What's more amazing is that they almost did a whole season of 'racing' before they pulled out.
I'm interested to know whether or not the slow times were due to problems with the car, or whether they really were going as fast as they could. I doubt it.
The Lola team at least had decent drivers. Sospiri and Badoer if I'm right?
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13th April 2008, 10:58 #9
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17th April 2008, 14:46 #10
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Did Jan Solans get 3 points for his 8th place at the end of saturday? Wikipedia and WRC site shows he didn't, eWRC shows he did.
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