Formula 1 and Fashion Coming Together For a Team Effort

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Published: January 23, 2011

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The period between 1985 and 1995 is filled with some truly great names. Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Keke Rosberg and Niki Lauda to name just a few.

The ten years is filled with great drivers and some great racing. The ten years is also filled with some examples of the complete opposite of the this. Filled with drivers who only got in the sport to help teams that were in their death throws before bankruptcy.

Drivers such as Taki Inoue, Jean Denis-Deletraz, Hideki Noda, Giovanna Amati, Paul Belmondo and Pedro Chaves to name just a few. The time was also filled with the teams that employed them. The teams that had more passion for the sport than they had to back it up.

There were teams such as Life who I did a piece about before. They considered being 20 seconds off the pre-qualifying pace to be a great success. A team that existed purely to advertise an engine with around half the power off the others.

Teams such as Coloni, Eurobrun, Pacific, Simtek, Forti, Onyx and Rial. All teams that went into Formula 1 with high hopes of one day being world champions and all of which left the sport with nothing.

The main problem these teams had was financial. Whether it was due to the team owner not wanting to put money into the team or sponsers not paying or not existing in the first place the teams ended up folding after a few years at most.

In 1992 a new bar was set for poor teams, set by a team called Andrea Moda. One of the most amateurish outfits that has graced Formula 1 over the sports history, rivalling such efforts as the Kauhsen debacle. The team was began when Andrea Sassetti purchased the remains of the Coloni team at the end of the 1991 season.

To begin with Andrea Moda simply resprayed the old Colani C4 cars in a black paint. They bought a supply of Judd engines and a Dallara gearbox and fitted them to the car. They hired Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia as drivers ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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