Dallara 3087
The 3087 Dallara was a Formula 3000 race cars constructed for the Italian manufacturer Dallara, who played in 1987 and 1988 some races in this series. In addition, it was reported in 1988 by the BMS Scuderia Italia team to a round of the Formula 1 World Championship.
- 4.1 EUR Racing
- BMS Scuderia Italia 4.2 4.2.1 background
- 4.2.2 race
- 4.2.3 Results in Formula 1
Background
Dallara is a company based in Parma racing car manufacturer that has been designing for the Formula 3 since 1978 chassis and mid -1980s was both in the national championships this series as well as in the European Formula 3 Championship the most successful chassis supplier. In the fall of 1986, the company with the 3087 for the first time developed a chassis for Formula 3000, which was operational from 1987.
Construction
The Dallara 3087 followed contemporary design principles: He had a monocoque made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, a suspension with double wishbones, front train and rear push bars. She was equipped with a Mader Racing Components prepared, 3.0 -liter eight-cylinder engine Cosworth DFV type.
Operations in F3000
1987: Euroventurini
For the 1987 season turned Dallara three copies of the 3087 ago. They went exclusively to the team Euroventurini, which was the result of a collaboration between the Formula 3 Euro Racing team and its competitors Venturini Racing. Euroventurini received technical assistance from Dallara engineers in the use of the car.
Euroventurini 1987 reported two vehicles of the type Dallara 3087th A car was run in all races of the season by Marco Apicella. He came only once in the points to the finish when he finished fifth in the race at Spa- Francorchamps. The second car was sequentially driven by Jari Nurminen, Guido Daccò and Nicola Tesini. None of the three pilots was able to win a championship point. At the end of the season Euroventurini abandoned the Formula 3000 commitment.
1988: Forti Corse
For the 1988 Formula 3000 season, the competition team Forti Corse took two copies of the 3087th drivers were Enrico Bertaggia and Fernando Croceri. None of them scored a championship point. Forti gave up the use of 3087 before the end of the 1988 season.
For use in Formula 1
Euro Racing
Already in the summer of 1987 was considering the Euro Racing owner Gianpaolo Pavanello 1988 return with a modified Dallara 3087 in Formula 1. This plan was abandoned after Euro Racing had entered into a collaboration with Walter Brun in the fall of 1987, and the team had EuroBrun Racing founded, with the own, financed by Brun cars took part in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1988.
BMS Scuderia Italia
To a message of 3087 for a Formula 1 race there was in April 1988. The announcement was made by the BMS Scuderia Italia team.
Background
Based in Brescia Team BMS Scuderia Italia was founded in the fall of 1987 and reported in 1988 for the first time the Formula 1 World Championship. Regulations Because the team had to compete with a race car that was used by any other team in this class; pure customer vehicles were then not allowed in Formula 1. The most Formula 1 teams constructed with regard to this scheme their racing cars themselves; beside it happened occasionally that a team could develop and build his car with an established racing car manufacturer commissioned work. The French team Larrousse went from 1987 this way, when he teamed up with the British manufacturer Lola Cars.
Since the Scuderia Italia did not have an infrastructure that allowed her to develop their own competitive cars, the team co-operation with the Italian race car manufacturer Dallara was received in the fall of 1987, who had not yet developed a Formula 1 car.
In the winter of 1987/88, the completion of the planned Formula 1 cars delayed. In March 1988, it became apparent that the car would be for the first race of the season in Brazil is not ready for use. For the team, however, was the commitment to compete at any of the 16 races of the season; the omission of a race would have had the exclusion of the racing team of the season result. In order to meet the obligation to participate justice, announced the Scuderia Italia for the first race of the year the Dallara 3087th similar was a year previously the British team March processes that had contested his first race with the Formula 3000 car March 87P.
Race
For use in the Brazilian Grand Prix of the 3087 Dallara had experienced no technical changes. He was still equipped with the 3.0-liter DFV eight-cylinder engine, although the Formula 1 regulations allowed since 1987 naturally aspirated 3.5- liter engine. According to press reports was the 3087 still equipped in Brazil with a prescribed formula for the 3000 rev limiter that automatically abregelte the engine at 9,000 rpm.
As a new team in 1988 Dallara subject next Coloni, EuroBrun and Rial Racing 's previous qualification, which was held this year under the first free practice sessions on Friday before the race. The driver, who scored the slowest lap time in this hour, was not pre-qualified and excluded from participating in further training runs and the race itself.
The Dallara 3087 was only supervised the Grand Prix of Brazil by four mechanics. Driver was Alex Caffi. He missed, as expected from the team, the pre-qualification. In 17 rounds he achieved a time that was higher than the subsequent pole time of Ayrton Senna 18.5 seconds; the time for a qualification, he missed by 9 seconds.
Another Formula 1 using the 3087 there was not in Formula 1. A week after the Brazilian Grand Prix debuted the Dallara 188, a designed for Formula 1 car with which Scuderia Italia regularly took from the Grand Prix of San Marino.