Constructors abortions

The Grand Prix world has many faces. Alongside the blissful moments of the winners, it knows also moments of failures and losses. Constructors always tryied to build a car that would win through the championship. Although some of them missed the technical sense, a spirit of organizers or even both, still they tried hard with the passion of a gamster. Creating thus a colorouring of Formula 1 racing scene, that did not consist solely of successes, but of the ridiculous constructors abortions, too.

Kauhsen

An german attempt to break with ground effect car into Formula 1. The car was built by Kurt Chabek. Gave him the original aerodynamics concept with a huge wing about the engine. It looked comically. "If this will ever run then all others must be idiots." It was a comment of Niki Lauda. The car driven by Gianfranco Brancatelli appeared at two 1979 Grands Prix events, and failed to qualify. Then Kauhsen gave up.

Driver
1978 Gianfranco Brancatelli

Andrea Moda

The mystery purchaser Andrea Sassetti buys out Coloni and was renaming the team after his fashion business, he had lined up a Judd engine and enters World championship in 1992 with fanfare. In Kyalami without having paid the entrance fee, Andrea Moda was scratched from the event. The team withdrew the entry from the Mexican GP before pre-qualifying began, citing extenuating circumstances caused by freight delays. In pre-qualifying at Barcelona, Roberto Moreno failed to complete even one lap before his engine broke. But then came Monaco and Moreno does the impossible, he puts the Andrea Moda S921 on the grid! In Montreal, the team discovered that the two S921 chassis were there - but the Judd V10 engines were not. Eventually they borrowed an engine from Brabham, but Moreno was about 15 seconds off pre-qualifying time. In Silverstone set the second driver Perry McCarthy a time over 16 seconds slower than what Moreno eventually managed before his clutch exploded, but time of Moreno was still not good enough to make it into the main qualifying sessions. Then through the weekend in Spa, Belgian police came and arrested Sassetti on allegations of fraud. The team was banned from the rest of the championship for bringing the sport into disrepute. The most idiotic Formula 1 team entry ever.

Drivers
1992 Roberto Moreno, Perry McCarthy

Life

Entered in 14 events in 1990, never pre-qualified for a single one. When it comes about the value of uncompetitive, nothing in history can not keep up to the Life Racing team of Ernesto Vito. At the season opener in Phoenix, was Gary Brabham almost 30 seconds behind the next slowest pre-qualifier, Claudio Langes with EuroBrun. In Brazil, Brabham was forced to park the Life having driven no more than 400 metres out of the pits, and recorded no time. The best performance of the season was at Silverstone when the car driven by Bruno Giacomelli was only 14 seconds off the time set by Olivier Grouillard with Osella, the fourth fastest pre-qualifer. When the car did get on track in Spain, now with the Judd engine, it was still 18 seconds off pre-qualifying time, and that was the last attempt for this amateurish outfit. We have never heard of Life Racing ever again.

Drivers
1990 Gary Brabham, Bruno Giacomelli

Coloni

In 1987 Enzo Coloni team leaving F3000 and logical he turned his eyes to Formula 1, working on a development F1 chassis. By the end of the year, the first Coloni F1 car, was ready, having been build by designer Roberto Ori. With Goodyear tyres and a obligatory Ford Cosworth engine. Coloni was ready to enter the big time. But in next pathetic 4 years Coloni became the most DNPQ team in history. 67 failures to make the grid between 1987 and 1991, that is 83% of their entries! As always, money, or the lack of it, would prove to be a major stumbling block as more than ever Coloni struggled simply for survival. In Portugal 1991 Enzo Coloni had already announced that he was selling his team to shoe magnate Andrea Sassetti, who would go into infamy with his Andrea Moda effort in 1992. Coloni had had enough of trying to compete with a small team, no money and sub-standard machinery, which wasn't for a lack of enthusiasm. Not to mention a distinct lack of results.

Drivers
1987 Nicola Larini
1988 Gabriele Tarquini
1989 Enrico Bertaggia, Pierre-Henri Raphanel, Roberto Moreno
1990 Bertrand Gachot
1991 Pedro Chaves, Naoki Hattori
1992 Alex Caffi, Enrico Bertaggia

Eifelland

Eifelland company has been a well-known caravan manufacturer in Germany for several decades. In 1970, the man in charge of this profitable business was Günther Henerici, who thought he would put his money to good use and began sponsoring German racer Rolf Stommelen, an established and versatile driver who had put in some promising drives in F1 in 1970 and 1971. In 1971, Henerici decided to use his Eifelland sponsorship to run a concerted tilt for Stommelen for 1972. But what about a chassis? Luigi Colani turned his mind to F1 bodywork design, guided more by sci-fi and instinct than technical know-how. All-embracing one-piece front wing with additional cooling ducts. But, most noticeably, sticking out like a sore thumb was a one-piece periscope-inspired mirror rising up smack-bang in front of the cockpit. Inspired aerodynamics or flawed fantasy? But there were miserable reliable performance and no results.

Driver
1972 Rolf Stommelen