Scirocco-Powell

The Scirocco Powell Racing Cars team was a Formula 1 team, which participated in the World Cup in 1963 and 1964.

In the early 1960s, it seemed to be easy to F1 to enter. Landing gear and engines were relatively easy to obtain, entry barriers exist not as good as. This bill, however, was deceptive. To have long term success in Formula 1, it took even then patience, technical knowledge and especially financial staying power.

1963 tried to put together with the British racing driver Tony Settember in the top single-seater class permanently foot of Americans Hugh Powell. Powell had already invested significant resources in 1960 in the British Emeryson team. After he had fallen out with designer Paul Emery, he retired but returned again.

Amazingly, it was Emery, who designed the Scirocco 01. The car had a simple tubular frame and a V8 engine of BRM.

The white and blue painted car appeared in 1963 in the World Cup. Regular driver Tony Settember debuted with the car at the Belgian Grand Prix. After an accident, he left five laps to go, at this time he was in eighth place. In the other race, the car remained completely unsuccessful, not only in the championship scoring Grand Prix of Austria was able to pull Settember against weak competition in second place. Also Ian Burgess, who joined the team prior to the Grand Prix of Great Britain, has made no countable results.

1964 Powell tried jointly with the Belgian André Pilette a fresh start. The car has been revised and now received the type designation Scirocco 02 Officially the car was reported under the team name team Scirocco Belge. In Belgium Pilette could qualify the car and drove in the race to engine damage in the rear box. As Pilette to qualify for the Grand Prix of Germany at the Nürburgring and missed the last money was consumed, Powell broke up the race team.

Outside the formula the team in 1962, with a Chevrolet Corvette and Tony Settember as one of the drivers, even at the 24 - hour race at Le Mans at the start was. The race ended for the team after 150 laps with a failure.