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THE PAST: ARROWS
The Arrows Grand Prix International team was founded in 1977 by Italian financier Franco Ambrosio, Alan Rees, Jackie Oliver, Dave Wass and Tony Southgate when Rees, Oliver, Wass and Southgate left the Shadow team.
The team was started in Milton Keynes, England and produced their first Formula One car in just 53 days.
Arrows signed up Riccardo Patrese who scored points in the US West Grand Prix at Long Beach in the car's third race.
Ambrosio left the team due to being jailed for financial irregularities in Italy. Shadow sued for copyright infringement, claiming that the Arrows FA/1 was just a copy of the Shadow DN9. The team decided to build a new car called the A1. This was completed in 53 days and appeared the day after the High Court in London banned the team from racing the FA/1
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| ARROWS A4 |
In September 1978, in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Patrese was involved in an accident which claimed the life of Ronnie Peterson and was banned from racing at the following race (the United States Grand Prix) by his fellow drivers.
In 1981, Patrese scored the team's only Formula One pole position in Long Beach, which he led until retiring with mechanical problems. Arrows finished joint eighth in the Constructors Championship that year.
In 1984 with BMW M12 turbo engines and sponsorship from cigarette company Barclay things got much better. That year they were ninth in the Constructors Championship and eighth in 1985. In 1987, BMW removed support and the engines were badged Megatron, but the British team had their best seasons yet, finising sixth in 1987 and fourth in 1988 (the final year for turbocharged engines) thanks to frequent points finishes by drivers Eddie Cheever and Derek Warwick.
Japanese businessman Wataru Ohashi invested in Arrows in 1990 and the cars started displaying the Footwork logo prominently. The team was officially renamed Footwork in 1991, and secured a deal to race with Porsche engines, with disastrous results, and in 1992 they switched to Mugen. Arrows retained the Footwork name until Ito pulled out before the 1996 season, whereupon the name of the team was changed back to Arrows. Regardless, Jackie Oliver had retained control throughout the entire period.
Tom Walkinshaw |
In March 1996, Tom Walkinshaw bought a stake in the team, and in September signed World Champion Damon Hill and hired wealthy Brazilian Pedro Diniz to help pay for Hill's salary. The team nearly secured a maiden victory at the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix where Hill started in third position and passed Michael Schumacher to take first place. |
A component failure in the final laps of the race saw him finish second. In the following years Walkinshaw would buy the rest of Oliver's shares. Brian Hart, who had been the engine supplier since 1995, was employed by the team, designing the Yamaha-badged engines, and later the Arrows-badged engine, in 1998.
In the 2000 Season, Jos Verstappen returned to Arrows where he had driven in 1996 alongside teammate Pedro de la Rosa. The chassis was a Arrows A21 with a Supertec engine. Allied to an excellent aerodynamic package, and good rear end stability, it allowed the Arrows A21 to consistently set the best straight line speeds around the circuits. Generally, both Verstappen and de la Rosa were competitive within a close midfield.
During the 2000 season, the Arrows team took part in a 13-part TV series named 'Racing Arrows' which followed the team and drivers throughout the year.
A switch to Asiatech V10s in 2001 and the loss of a lot of staff left the team weaker in 2001 when Walkinshaw decided to replace de la Rosa with F1 debutant Enrique Bernoldi. The team struggled through the season and Verstappen scored the team's only point in Austria.
Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Enrique Bernoldi deliberately failed to qualify at the 2002 French Grand Prix as the team's financial problems worsened.
For 2002, Tom Walkinshaw did a deal to use Cosworth V10 engines and retained Bernoldi (with support from Red Bull) but dropped Verstappen in favour of Heinz-Harald Frentzen who became available when Prost Grand Prix closed down. This caused Verstappen to successfully sue for breach of contract. That year also saw a costly payout to Pedro Diniz after unsuccessfully suing the Brazilian, who had taken his funding to Sauber for 1999. The team faced a third litigation from Frentzen, who was on contract by a race-by-race basis and who had not yet been paid.
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Arrows ran out of money in the midseason and did not appear at all the races at the end of the year, their drivers deliberately failing to qualify for the French Grand Prix. As a result it went into liquidation at the end of the season, also forcing TWR to close.
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| 58th Coppa Intereuropa - Monza. Kinch takes the lead off the line in the Arrows A4 |
A consortium fronted by Phoenix Finance - run by Charles Nickerson, a friend of Walkinshaw - purchased part of the team's assets, specifically the engines, believing that together with their purchase of old Prost Grand Prix assets, it would gain them entrance for the 2003 season. However, their application was rejected by the FIA.
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In their chequered history, Arrows set the unenviable record of 382 races without a win. (Although, since at 97 of those races the car was officially named "Footwork," Minardi holds the record for most races for a single marque without a win, with 349).
DID YOU KNOW THAT NEARLY ALL THE CARS WE FEATURE ON THE RETRO FORMULA 1 WEBSITE ARE STILL COMPETING?
Below you will find the full list of 2011 events. Do not think just because the cars are worth £300,000 plus, drivers hold back. This is 'on the edge' racing at it's best. |
| MAY 13-15 |
RED BULL RING Austria, HFO Rd 2 & 3 |
| MAY 29-30 |
BRANDS HATCH UK, Masters Series
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| JUN 3-5 |
MONZA Italy, HFO Rd 4 |
| JUN 17-19 |
PORTO Portugal, Masters Series |
| JUL 1-3 |
BRANDS HATCH UK, HFO Rd 5 |
| JUL 22-24 |
SILVERSTONE UK, Silverstone Classic |
| AUG 12-14 |
NURBURGRING Germany, Masters Series |
| SEPT 2-4 |
DONINGTON UK, Masters Series |
| SEPT 9-11 |
NURBURGRING Germany, HFO RD 6 |
| SEPT 23-25 |
SPA Belgium, Masters Series |
| OCT 7-9 |
PAUL RICARD France, HFO Rd 7 & 8 |
| OCT 21-23 |
ALGARVE Portugal, HFO Rd 9 & 10 |
The FIA Historic Formula One Championship ™ is at the pinnacle of historic motorsport. Its fans get a taste of classic old school Formula 1 and thrill to the sights and sounds of the cars driven by legends such as Gilles Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Keke Rosberg.
The Championship features the great Grand Prix cars raced between 1966 and 1985 re-creating the spectacle of the legendary 3 litre Formula 1 era on the great Race Circuits of the World. |
The Masters Historic Car Series is for 3 litre F1 Cars built between 1968 and 1978. From the pre-ground effects and pre-turbo era of F1 racing, Grand Prix Masters promises fast racing and close competition. Running in four distinct classes, providing a series of double-header races, emotive grids from the likes of Tyrrell, Lotus, Matra, McLaren, Cooper, Surtees and BRM, compete over two separate races per weekend.
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