10 of the worst f1 teams from 1990-2008 and why?

Question

10 of the worst f1 teams from 1990-2008 and why?

Answer 1

Can't argue with Rosbif. I will just throw in the 1999 BAR which was a year old Tyrrell with a 2 year old Renault engine, even Jacques Villneuve struggled to out qualify the Minardis and Arrows, poor considering the teams budget and they said they were going to challenge for wins....

Also the 1990 Life F1 team that entered 14 GPs and never qualifying. David Brabham and Bruno Giacomeli attempting to do so. I think they used a Subaru (?) engine for a while.

Answer 2

Andrea Moda: only ever qualified one car for one race, the 1992 Monaco GP...and even then Roberto Moreno started 26th and last before retiring after 11 laps with a blown engine.

Monteverdi: Only lasted two races after buying out the bankrupt Onyx team...only qualified for one of those races, with one driver spinning off and the other being so far behind the leader as not to be classified.

Eurobrun: horrible name, horrible car; they were useless already before 1990, but that year was really poor too, only getting one driver to qualify for two races...poor old Roberto Moreno again.

Lamborghini: they not only let Mauro Forghieri design the engine, but they let him do the chassis as well...mistake...his glory years at Ferrari were well behind him. The car only qualified six times, never scoring a point.

Forti: This team were so technologically backward that they were the last to use a manual gearbox, as late as 1996! It wasn't a surprise when they folded, pointless, in mid-season.

AGS: If they had entered F1 in the 1960s, they might have gone on to greatness. They weren't made for the modern era though, the team was simply too small...they actually had a pair of 6th places back in the 80s, but those heady days were long gone by the time they withdrew, bankrupt, after the 1991 Monaco GP.

Venturi: A re-badged and re-financed Larrousse Lola...it somehow finished where faster cars didn't at Monaco in  1992 to claim an unlikely 6th place, but when Katayama took his sponsors off to the more competitive Tyrrell drive, the writing was on the wall.

Simtek: Always to be associated with the accidents of Ratzenberger and Montermini. It was a project which only found financing because Sir Jack Brabham wanted to somehow get his son (David) in F1 and none of the serious teams would touch him, with sponsorship money or not. One and a half disasterous years later, the sponsors were done for fraud and the team folded.

Pacific: Another team which came into F1 at the wrong time. Their debut season was 1994, and with all the sudden technical and safety changes required to the cars after Imola, they never had the time or budget to develop the car...it just proved too much for a small team to cope with.

Fondmetal: You shouldn't expect much if you buy one of the least successful F1 teams in history and just change the name. At least everybody knew who Osella were...Fondmetal were as nondescript as their name, never scoring a point and only managing to finish 5 of their 19 GPs.

EDIT @JeffGordon Minardi were actually quite competitive for a time in the early to mid 1990s. Martini qualified second at Phoenix in 1990, finished fourth at San Marino the year after. Both cars qualified for almost every race (despite Martini usuallly having a rent-a-driver for his teammate), sometimes both cars qualified in the top ten. They might not have been overly successful (and in the period 85-88 they were even worse than Osella and Zakspeed), but for a while in the 90s they looked like they might have got the hang of F1.

Answer 3

THE worst team of that era?

Lola.

They entered the 97 championship as a works team for the first time and folded after one race.

Their car had never been wind tunnel tested.

Their F1 car turned out to be slower than their F3000 effort.

They were one of the best known chassis manufacturers in the world and almost went bankrupt as a result of this attempt.

Answer 4

What about Minardi???

Answer 5

For me its between at the top...

Life - awful W12 engine that didn't work AT all... ditched it for half-decent Judd V8 that showed how bad the chassis was as well... 14 DNQ's out of 14 attempts...

http://f1rejects.com/teams/life/large/90...

Andrea Moda - needless to say... the most badly run F1 team EVER!! Roberto Moreno would drive anything for the sheer fun of being in an F1 car.. but how he coped with this I do not know... and as for Perry McCarthy... the poor guy would never get another race seat (not that he did really here either...) due to this farce... they sent him out to qualify on wet tyres in the dry once!!!

http://f1rejects.com/drivers/mccarthy/la...

http://f1rejects.com/teams/andreamoda/la...

Mastercard Lola - had their car rushed into action a year early, with no wind-tunnel testing whatsoever.... it was a miracle they were only 11 seconds slower than the rest of the field... withdrew out of embarrassment and sponsor issues..who were the ones who pushed them into it in the first place... Lola went kaputt and are only recovering really now in sportscars...

http://f1rejects.com/teams/lola/large/97...

http://f1rejects.com/teams/lola/large/97...

Pacific - more pay-drivers than you could shake a chequebook at and equally awful cars to boot.... put the Lotus name to shame when they enveloped it in 1995... lack of money main problem, but they had bad drivers and slow cars too...

http://f1rejects.com/drivers/deletraz/la...

http://f1rejects.com/drivers/belmondo/la...