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Full name | Footwork Arrows |
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Base | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom |
Noted staff | Jackie Oliver Alan Jenkins |
Noted drivers | Michele Alboreto Christian Fittipaldi Gianni Morbidelli Aguri Suzuki Taki Inoue Ricardo Rosset Jos Verstappen |
Formula One World Championship career | |
First entry | 1991 United States Grand Prix |
Races entered | 97 (91 starts) |
Constructors' Championships | 0 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 0 |
Podiums | 1 |
Pole positions | 0 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Final entry | 1996 Japanese Grand Prix |
Footwork Arrows was a British Formula One motor racing team which competed from 1991 to 1996. Japanese businessman Wataru Ohashi, who was the president of Footwork Express Co., Ltd., a Japanese logistics company, began investing heavily in the Arrows team in 1990 (having sponsored a Japanese Formula 3000 team), the deal including requiring the cars to display the Footwork logo prominently. The team was officially renamed Footwork in 1991, and secured a deal to race with Porsche engines. Results were poorer than expected, and after just six races, Footwork dropped the Porsche engines and continued with Hart-built Ford engines.
For the 1992 season they switched engine supplier to Mugen. Arrows retained the Footwork name until Ohashi withdrew his financial backing before the 1996 season, whereupon the name of the team reverted to Arrows. Regardless, Jackie Oliver had retained operational control throughout the entire period.
Arrows was officially renamed Footwork for 1991. The season began with the A11C chassis with Porsche engines, but after neither Michele Alboreto or Alex Caffi qualified in Brazil there was a reshuffle with Alan Rees being made financial director and John Wickham named team manager. The prototype FA12 appeared but was then destroyed when its suspension failed at the notorious Tamburello turn at Imola. Alboreto suffered a broken foot which required several stitches and Caffi damaged a second new car at Monaco. Caffi was then hurt in a road accident a week later, and was replaced by Stefan Johansson for several races.
In June the team decided to replace the unsuccessful Porsche engines with Hart-prepared Cosworth DFR engines. Having failed to score points for a year the team was forced to pre-qualify from the half-way point of the season and appeared in the races only rarely in the second part of the year. Despite the problems the team opened a 40%-scale windtunnel at Milton Keynes.
For 1992, Caffi was dropped and Aguri Suzuki joined, bringing a supply of Mugen V10s (derived from the 1990-spec Honda V10s that Mugen serviced for Tyrrell the previous year). The FA13 chassis, designed by Alan Jenkins, was a conventional, straightforward car and Alboreto scored four times, 5th in both the Spanish and San Marino Grands Prix and 6th in both the Brazilian and Portuguese Grands Prix, the team finishing with six points and equal 7th with Ligier in the Constructors' Championship.
For 1993, Alboreto was dropped to make way for Derek Warwick who joined Suzuki with Mugen engines and a new FA14 chassis. It was a disappointing year, however. Warwick scored all the four points with a 6th place in the 1993 British Grand Prix and a 4th in the 1993 Hungarian Grand Prix, which remained the best Footwork result in history until late 1995. The team finished 9th in the Constructors' Championship with four points. At the end of the season Ohashi withdrew his sponsorship, but continued to maintain shares in the team. The team lost its Mugen engines as a result, and had to return to Ford V8s for 1994.
Although the Footwork logos were gone from the cars, the team continued to be recognised as Footwork by the FIA, as Ohashi still owned shares in the team and as such did not apply for a name change until 1997. For 1994, Jenkins designed the Footwork FA15 for young drivers Gianni Morbidelli and Christian Fittipaldi but money was short. The neat car drew a number of admiring glances, with Fittipaldi taking 4th place at the Pacific Grand Prix, before being one of the stars of the Monaco Grand Prix, running third at one point until his gearbox failed. Initially the car was fragile, but just as the team began to solve the problems, the revised regulations that followed the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna robbed the cars of their neat aerodynamics. Further points were scored in the German Grand Prix where the cars came 4th and 5th out of eight finishers Thanks to Michael Schumacher's disqualification from the Belgian Grand Prix, Morbidelli was promoted to 6th, which was some compensation for team-mate Fittipaldi being disqualified from 6th in the parc fermé at the 1994 Canadian Grand Prix. That allowed Footwork to finish 9th in the Constructors' Championship, with nine points. At the end of the year there was a setback when Fittipaldi quit Formula One and headed to the IndyCar World Series in the United States. Wickham also departed, with Alan Harrison replacing Wickham's role for 1995.
With an increasingly difficult financial situation the team picked pay driver Taki Inoue to partner Morbidelli in the Jenkins-designed Arrows-Hart FA16. In the mid-season there was so little money that Morbidelli had to be replaced by Max Papis, although he returned for the last three races and scored Footwork's first and only podium in Adelaide. That result, plus a 6th place in the Canadian Grand Prix allowed Footwork to finish 8th in the Constructors' Championship, equal on points with Tyrrell but claiming the higher position due to better results (the best results for Tyrrell were two fifth places). At the end of the year, Jackie Oliver and Alan Rees bought back the shares from Ohashi thanks to assistance from finance house Schwäbische Finanz & Unternehmensberatung AG.
In March 1996, Tom Walkinshaw acquired a controlling interest in the team by buying out Rees. Walkinshaw controlled 40% of the shares with an associate Peter Darnbrough buying 11% and Oliver retaining 49%. The team was renamed TWR Arrows for the remaining part of the 1996 season (but continued to be recognised as Footwork by FIA until 1997 as mid-season constructor name changes are not permitted). Jos Verstappen scored with a 6th place in the Argentine Grand Prix, the last ever point for Footwork in Formula 1. The team finished 9th in the Constructors' Championship, as they had done in 1993 and 1994.
In 2001, Ohashi's company was involved in a fraud scandal that bankrupted the company; [1] [2] one year later, the TWR-operated Arrows team also collapsed due to financial problems.
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position)
Year | Chassis | Engine(s) | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Points | WCC |
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1991 | A11C FA12 | Porsche 3512 3.5 V12 | G | USA | BRA | SMR | MON | CAN | MEX | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | ESP | JPN | AUS | 0 | NC | ||
Michele Alboreto | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | Ret | Ret | |||||||||||||||||
Alex Caffi | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||
Stefan Johansson | Ret | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||||
FA12C | Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8 | Michele Alboreto | Ret | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | DNPQ | DNQ | 15 | Ret | DNQ | 13 | 0 | NC | |||||||||
Stefan Johansson | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Alex Caffi | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | DNPQ | 10 | 15 | |||||||||||||||
1992 | FA13 | Mugen-Honda MF-351H 3.5 V10 | G | RSA | MEX | BRA | ESP | SMR | MON | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | AUS | 6 | 7th | ||
Michele Alboreto | 10 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | Ret | 7 | 6 | 15 | Ret | |||||||
Aguri Suzuki | 8 | DNQ | Ret | 7 | 10 | 11 | DNQ | Ret | 12 | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | 10 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
1993 | FA13B FA14 | Mugen-Honda MF-351 HB 3.5 V10 | G | RSA | BRA | EUR | SMR | ESP | MON | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | AUS | 4 | 9th | ||
Derek Warwick | 7 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 13 | Ret | 16 | 13 | 6 | 17 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 15 | 14 | 10 | |||||||
Aguri Suzuki | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | 10 | Ret | 13 | 12 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 7 | |||||||
1994 | FA15 | Ford HBE7/8 3.5 V8 | G | BRA | PAC | SMR | MON | ESP | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | EUR | JPN | AUS | 9 | 9th | ||
Christian Fittipaldi | Ret | 4 | 13 | Ret | Ret | DSQ | 8 | 9 | 4 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 8 | 17 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
Gianni Morbidelli | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 5 | Ret | 6 | Ret | 9 | 11 | Ret | Ret | |||||||
1995 | FA16 | Hart 830 3.0 V8 | G | BRA | ARG | SMR | ESP | MON | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | EUR | PAC | JPN | AUS | 5 | 8th | |
Gianni Morbidelli | Ret | Ret | 13 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 3 | |||||||||||||
Max Papis | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 7 | Ret | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
Taki Inoue | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 12 | 8 | 15 | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | ||||||
1996 | FA17 | Hart 830 3.0 V8 | G | AUS | BRA | ARG | EUR | SMR | MON | ESP | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | 1 | 9th | ||
Ricardo Rosset | 9 | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | 11 | 8 | 9 | Ret | 14 | 13 | |||||||
Jos Verstappen | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 11 |
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