It’s that time of the week again: time for us to look at the past teams that made an exit from the sport of Formula One, having scored no points. This week, we remember First Racing.
First Racing was an Italian team founded by Lamberto Leoni. The team started in the Formula 3000 series with cars driven mainly by Leoni himself and Gabriele Tarquini. The team was mildly successful and Leoni decided that he wanted to run a car in the 1989 Formula One season and asked Tarquini to drive it.
However, the team’s Formula One life was extremely short lived. The chassis, which was extremely poorly executed and was even disowned by its designer Richard Divila who said it was unsafe, failed the mandatory crash tests ahead of the start of the season.
The team withdrew from the season opening race in Brazil and the team was planning to redesign the chassis and strengthen it so that it would pass the crash tests. However, such work as never done and the team ended up folding without having ever entered into a race.
The chassis was later purchased and modified by Life Racing the following season, but their Formula One season was dreadful and the chassis never started a Grand Prix.
Points are a difficult thing to obtain in Formula One. In this weekly series, we will look back the past teams who gave it their all, but fell short.
Points are a difficult thing to obtain in Formula One. In this weekly series, we will look back the past teams who gave it their all, but fell short.
