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View Poll Results: Which Team Was The Worst In Formula 1 History? | |||
Andrea Moda | 12 | 32.43% | |
Colini | 1 | 2.70% | |
EuroBrun | 0 | 0% | |
Kauhsen | 1 | 2.70% | |
Life | 16 | 43.24% | |
MasterCard Lola | 7 | 18.92% | |
Onyx | 0 | 0% | |
Pacific | 0 | 0% | |
Simtek | 0 | 0% | |
Other (Please State) | 3 | 8.11% | |
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17 Aug 2006, 12:21 (Ref:1684963) | #1 | ||
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Worst Team In F1 History
I'm coming up with a lot of 'in F1 history' things... sorry if its annoying anyone.
Who could forget... The classical years of Andrea Moda, possibly the worst team in Formula 1 history. I read their profile on f1rejects.com, and I can recall some of their glorious outings in F1... Like poor Perry McCarthey getting about 20 metres from the pit bay when his engine retired... What's your say? |
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17 Aug 2006, 12:39 (Ref:1684985) | #2 | ||
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Andrea Moda is the obvious example, purchasing Coloni's assets but not their entry and then after numerous calamaties before being thown out of F1 for bringing the sport into disrepute. However, Moreno somehow managed to qualify for Monaco.
For what its worth, I think that Life can probably claim to be F1's worst team; a substantial overweight car and a W12 engine that had a reported 450bhp and never come close to qualifying for a race. They disapeered befoe the end of '90 and haven't been heard of since. |
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17 Aug 2006, 13:19 (Ref:1685019) | #3 | |
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17 Aug 2006, 13:21 (Ref:1685023) | #4 | ||
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Life are especially comical in that the team's raison d'etre was to promote their unique engine concept and get a big team to run it in future, when in practice the engine was even worse than the functional chassis they ran (originally designed for the planned FIRST team in 1989, I believe).
F1Rejects has a lot of them covered - Token, Peter Monteverdi's time in charge of Onyx, Rial, Eurobrun, but there are probably more in the past. |
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17 Aug 2006, 13:29 (Ref:1685030) | #5 | ||
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Has to be Life. For perennial outrageous underachievement that would have required a 300% rule to qualify. At least Andrea Moda got to the grid once.
Honourable mentions to Kauhsen, who had the sense to give up after 3 hapless DNQs (and the early prototypes of that car were downright odd; very short, TG183esque rear wing, no front nosewings avant l'heure), and to Broadley Lola who were somewhat screwed by a ludicrous sponsorship agreement that took me about 2 seconds to consider hopeless when I heard about it. |
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17 Aug 2006, 14:20 (Ref:1685078) | #6 | ||
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I was at Phoenix, standing in the pits right by the Life garage. I swear this is true - I saw a Life mechanic go into the garage next door (another team) to ask if he could borrow a tyre pressure gauge just before a practice session!
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17 Aug 2006, 14:32 (Ref:1685087) | #7 | ||
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No doubt in my mind, Lola. Only attempted to qualify once and failed. Certainly statistically the worst team ever. However it did save the firm from dissapearing...
Coloni were pretty dire and Forti Corse too. |
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There is one worse statistical make - McGuire. Brian McGuire modified his Williams FW04 so much he named it for himself. His one F1 World Championship attempt ended in a failure to pre-qualify. Loris Kessel also created his own car from a Williams and called it an Apollon (after a sponsor), which as a make has a record of entries 1, DNQs 1. |
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17 Aug 2006, 15:02 (Ref:1685109) | #9 | |||
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How about ATS (as in 'Automobili Turismo E Sport', not 'Auto Technisches Zubehor'!!) from 1963, considering the team was founded by disaffected Ferrari personnel fresh from winning the 1961 world title, and featured Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti as drivers, its results were very poor. I remember readng somewhere that the team simply turned up unannounced at the Belgian Grand Prix, stopping the transporters outside the paddock and then simply driving the race cars into the pits! I also seem to recall that if an engine change was required the chassis tubes had to be cut apart and then rewelded in order to fit the new engine! See here for more... Carlo Chiti (an ATS founder) later designed the disasterous Subaru Flat 12 engine that 'powered' Coloni in 1990... |
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17 Aug 2006, 15:49 (Ref:1685127) | #10 | ||
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I cannot immediately remember the name of the car, but someone will recall the one-off car entered for the British Grand Prix in the '60's that caught fire in the paddock one night and was never heard of again.
Beat that! |
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17 Aug 2006, 16:15 (Ref:1685171) | #11 | ||
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17 Aug 2006, 16:24 (Ref:1685181) | #12 | ||
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Life and Andrea Moda take some beating though. Wasn't the owner of Andrea Moda an Italian footwear magnate who was arrested and had the teams assets confiscated by the police when they showed up at Imola ? |
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17 Aug 2006, 16:33 (Ref:1685194) | #13 | ||
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The Pearce-Martin to be driven by Tony Lanfranchi was burnt out in the transporter at the 1967 Silverstone International Trophy, not the GP.
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Worst must be an italian device called a Dwya which I think failed to quaify for a Aurora F1 race.-never entered a WC race.
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17 Aug 2006, 16:55 (Ref:1685224) | #18 | ||
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You should have Allen! They were all the rage back then, I had a pair myself, I could not understand how at 6ft tall all my mates started towering over me till I caught on, I looked like lurch from the Munsters in them! One night returning from a nightclub I ran out of petrol about 5 miles from home and nearly crippled myself walking home in the sodding things, I binned them after that. I digress, sorry Allen started it! :-)
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17 Aug 2006, 17:46 (Ref:1685272) | #19 | ||
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Doe's anyone remember the Eiffeland. Basically it was a March 721 (I think) but the team were sponsored by the Eiffeland, the Caravan Manufacturer. They thought as they built it would be a good idea to gain advantage by building new bodywork around the driver (using Caravan Technology?) and it had a big mirror on a post in front of the driver, which basically blocked his view.
Was it any good - no it was total rubbish!!!! http://www.racingsportscars.com/f1/1...-06-04-006.jpg |
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17 Aug 2006, 20:54 (Ref:1685452) | #22 | ||
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I suppose the CTA-Arsenal would have been a contender had it been a year later. The car appeared in practice for the French GP in 1947 and reappeared in 1948. On both occasions its performance was abysmal. As Formula 1 started in 1948 it was just too early.
But the V12 OSCA and the Arzani-Volpini weren't. Moving on a bit we have the DB which proved that 750cc supercharged was not the way to go. But putting the obscure makes to one side there is the Aston Martin . A manufacturer of successful sports cars produced a car that just yhadn't got it. OK it was front engined when Cooper had shown theat rear engines were the answer, but it was still far slower than the other front-engined cars. And finally how about Arrows - 382 starts yielded 1 pole and 1 fastest lap. Ok, Minardi never even scored a pole, but they never had Arrows level of budget or quality of drivers. |
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On a ratio of budget v performance, BAR must be the worst ever...
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