Racecar Engineering

Car noir

When you like films, enjoy the story telling, good acting, pace and having a keen eye for the details, you will progress to enjoying films so bad they are unmissable. In the same vein, bad cars, by showing their flaws, make us understand the deeper complexity of crafting good ones.

The 1989 Eurobrun F1 could be an example. Let us examine it. In part, the team were ex-Alfa Romeo Racing, and results in 1988 were reasonable. Eleventh in the Hungarian GP, on the grid several times. But when part of the team left in 1988 and the budget was cut, they were in trouble.

Its best result during the 1989 season was

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