Grand Prix Rejects

Zakspeed is a motor racing team from Germany, founded in 1968 by Erich Zakowski and nowadays run by his son Peter Zakowski. Their home town of Niederzissen is located not far away from the Nurburgring race track. The engine was the basis for their Formula One entry from 1985 to 1988. In spite of the...

The 1984 season http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1984_Nurburgring_pileup_131084_Auto.jpg Motor 13th October 1984. The 1986 season [spoiler] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1985_Osterreichring_Ghizani_200386_.jpg Autosport 20th March 1986. http://img.photobucket.com/...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1988_Unknown_Modena_310388_AS_versi.jpg The 1987 season http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1987_EuroBrun_F1_030987_MN_version.jpg Motoring News 3rd September 1987. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1987_EuroBrun_Laurrauri...

As I have just shed some new light into the old Life Racing Engines and First Racing teams. I am going to continue my tread with the Onyx/Monteverdi team. I got a lot of information about this team from my Motoring News and Autosport archives. The Onyx team was formed by Mike Earle and Jo Chamberlai...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1987_Monza_Larini_100987_AS_version.jpg The 1987 season [spoiler] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1987_Coloni_Larini_180387_MN_versio.jpg Motoring News 18th March 1987. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1987_proposed_C...

Hopefully this might help! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1988_Dallara_3000_240288_MN_version.jpg Motoring News 24th February 1988. The 1988 season continues [spoiler] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1988_Dallara_noshow_300388_MN_versi.jpg Motoring News 30th March ...

Some information about the small French team in here . The 1986 season http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1986_PaulRicard_Capelli_test_280886.jpg Autosport 28th August 1986. The 1986 season continues [spoiler] http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1986_PaulRicaard_Pironi_tes...

Rial Racing was formed for the 1988 season by a fiery German called Gunther Schmidt (also the owner of the old ATS team) and he appointed ex-Ferrari designer Gustav Brunner to pen his new ARC 01 Rial Racing car with Andrea de Cesaris as his driver. The 1988 season [spoiler] http://img.photobucket.co...

After we have chuckled at the farcial ]Life Racing team we are going to roll back to the original builders of the car. It was Lamberto Leoni's FIRST Racing team that was running a F3000 team in the late 1980s and decided to dip into Formula One and built his own car in hopes to enter the 1989 F1 sea...

Yes, it is true! Originally they set up a partnership with Minardi but it fell through and they worked together with Coloni but it didn't bring any results... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/bigears/F1/1988_Robserg_for_Subaru_200488_MN_v.jpg Motoring News 20th April 1988. http://img.photobucke...

Did some more digging up for unknown F1 teams. I discovered an unknown team that was formed and designed a car but it never took part in a Grand Prix meeting or possible turned a wheel in anger under the name of GLAS ( G onzalez L una As sciates, financed by Mexican businessman Fernando Gonzalez Lun...

I will post a few more details about the backmarker teams in a minute.

I have been a lurker in this forum for a little while and I thought I would share some interesting scans about the Life Racing team... I will make some more threads about different backmarkers if there is any interest. http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8871/1988lifestruggle110888aqn0.th.jpg Autospo...