EuroBrun
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Full name | EuroBrun Racing |
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Base | Senago,Milan,Italy |
Noted staff | Walter Brun Giampaolo Pavanello |
Noted drivers | Stefano Modena Oscar Larrauri Roberto Moreno Gregor Foitek |
Formula OneWorld Championship career | |
First entry | 1988 Brazilian Grand Prix |
Races entered | 46 (21 starts) |
Engines | Ford Judd |
Constructors' Championships | 0 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 0(best finish: 11th,1988 Hungarian Grand Prix) |
Pole positions | 0(best grid position: 15th,1988 Canadian Grand Prix) |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Final entry | 1990 Spanish Grand Prix |
EuroBrun Racingwas a Swiss-ItalianFormula Oneconstructor based inSenago,Milan,Italy.They participated in 46 Grands Prix between 1988 and 1990, with anItalian license,[1]entering a total of 76 cars.
Background
[edit]The team was a combination of two outfits – the mechanical manpower and skill of Giampaolo Pavanello'sEuroracingteam, who had also run the factory-backedAlfa RomeoFormula One team from 1982–85, and the financial muscle and organisational skill of Swissslot machinemagnate and former touring car driverWalter Brun,who owned and ran theBrun Motorsportsports carteam.
1988
[edit]For the team's debut season in1988,Mario Tolentino designed the ER188 chassis, to be powered by anormally-aspirated3.5-litreCosworthDFZengine.1987 Formula 3000championStefano Modenaand long-time Brun sportscar stalwartOscar Larrauriwere signed to drive. Despite a solid if unspectacular start to the season, EuroBrun were soon struggling as money ran low. There was internal trouble when Brun unsuccessfully tried to replace Larrauri withChristian Danner(the Argentine driver had gained the unwanted reputation among his fellow drivers of being a 'mobile chicane' in both qualifying and races) and Euroracing were showing disinterest in Formula One. Both drivers failed to qualify at certain events (Modena missing out four times and being excluded from another two races for technical infringements, and Larrauri failing seven times). Modena's 11th place at theHungarian Grand Prixwas the team's best result of the year.
1989
[edit]Before the1989season, Euroracing slimmed down to a nominal level of involvement, in the shape of a handful of engineers and mechanics. EuroBrun scaled back to a single car (being the only team to enter one car that year, as opposed to two) to be driven by Swiss driverGregor Foitek,while the ER188 was modified slightly to take aJudd V8 engineandPirellityres. The team would only make it through pre-qualifying once, in the opening race of the season inBrazil,and then Foitek failed to qualify. Even the introduction ofGeorge Ryton's new ER189 for theGerman Grand Prixdid not help. Foitek quit after theBelgian Grand Prix,to be replaced by the returning Larrauri, who was no more successful.
1990
[edit]Despite failing to start a single race in 1989, the team returned in1990with two cars once again. Euroracing had now left the partnership altogether and the team started the season with an upgraded version of the ER189 known as theER189B.Roberto Morenoled the team, withClaudio Langesin the second car. Langes would not make it through pre-qualifying once. A freak qualifying session at the opening race of the season in theUnited Statessaw Moreno start 16th on the grid and he eventually finished 13th. The capable Brazilian qualified again inSan Marinoand came close on other occasions, but as Brun lost enthusiasm, the EuroBruns fell further and further away from the grid. After 14 rounds the team withdrew from the Formula One Championship, having made only 21 starts from 76 entries. In 2021, Moreno claimed that the team purposely did not want to qualify for races so as not to spend funds they did not have on extra tyres and engine rebuilds, stating that the team gave him race-marked tyres to qualify on and the Judd engines went as long as four events without rebuilds.[2]
Complete Formula One results
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Year | Chassis | Engines | Tyres | No. | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Points | WCC |
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1988 | ER188 | Ford Cosworth DFZ3.5V8 | G | BRA | SMR | MON | MEX | CAN | DET | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | ESP | JPN | AUS | 0 | NC | ||
32 | Oscar Larrauri | Ret | DNQ | Ret | 13 | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 16 | DNQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | ||||||
33 | Stefano Modena | Ret | NC | EX | EX | 12 | Ret | 14 | 12 | Ret | 11 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | 13 | DNQ | Ret | ||||||
1989 | ER188B ER189 |
JuddCV 3.5V8 | P | BRA | SMR | MON | MEX | USA | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | ESP | JPN | AUS | 0 | NC | ||
33 | Gregor Foitek | DNQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | |||||||||||
Oscar Larrauri | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | ||||||||||||||||||
1990 | ER189B | JuddCV 3.5V8 | P | USA | BRA | SMR | MON | CAN | MEX | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | ESP | JPN | AUS | 0 | NC | ||
33 | Roberto Moreno | 13 | DNPQ | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | EX | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | ||||||||
34 | Claudio Langes | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ |
References
[edit]- ^"Eurobrun".StatsF1.Retrieved28 March2022.
- ^"Roberto Moreno's Incredible F1 Journey | Beyond The Grid | F1 Official Podcast".Formula OneonYouTube.2 May 2021.Archivedfrom the original on 2021-12-12.
External links
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- Formula One entrants
- Italian auto racing teams
- Swiss auto racing teams
- Italian racecar constructors
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- Auto racing teams disestablished in 1990
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