Forti
Forti Corse was an Italian motor racing team, who participated in 1970-1996 to race in Formula Ford, Formula 3, Formula 3000 and Formula 1.
History
The team was founded by businessmen Guido Forti Paolo Guerci 1970 in Alessandria, Italy. First, Forti involved in European race of the Formula Ford and Formula 3 A good quality Forti could quickly regular winner of the race will be. As a driver, Enrico and Gianni Morbidelli Bertaggia were other Franco Forini, used to have won multiple titles the Italian F3 series in the 1980s and later competed for various Italian teams in Formula 1.
In 1987, Forti in Formula 3000 and took until 1994 regularly in the championship races. The first year was unsuccessful. Forti used vehicle Dallara, the newly designed Model 3087, which proved to be difficult to drive in practice. The later years were more successful; Forti Corse has established itself as a solid force in Formula 3000. In 1990, the first racing victory by Gianni Morbidelli. However, the championship title was achieved in any season. Since 1992, Guido Forti dealt with the rise in the Formula 1, including with the press effectively, but hardly realizable idea of an exclusive women's teams with Giovanna Amati. Only in 1995 but the jump was daring. The main trigger was the Brazilian racing driver Pedro Paulo Diniz, whose father in his home country had a supermarket chain and was able to finance the race for the son generous.
1995 season
First, the team of decades of racing practice could benefit, however, it was with the need to develop their own car to build, and deploy overwhelmed financially and perhaps logistically. The 1995 car, the FG01 was basically a foreign development and pointed to old genes. Father of the car was Sergio Rinland who had developed in the late 1991 Brabham a vehicle for the 1992 season. Lack of money Brabham had this vehicle is not removed, so that Rinland its design with few changes sold to the Fondmetal team by Gabriele Rumi, where it was used for some races under the name of GR02. While Rinland already working on a follow-up model, Fondmetal collapsed in September 1992. The designs for the new car, which were based largely on the GR02, Rinland sold in late 1994 to Forti Corse, where they became the basis for Fortis own Formula 1 car. So it was that the Forti 1995 contributed some essential features of the 1991's and the 1992 Brabham - Fondmetal in itself, although the template at Forti by former Osella engineer Giorgio Stirano has been updated a bit. In any case, the undemanding car was technically outdated, underpowered and not competitive. It also changed further modifications in the summer of 1995, nothing that made a longer wheelbase, revised radiator and other little things. The Forti - pilot Roberto Moreno and Pedro Diniz were several times in every race, even nine times, lapped at the Grand Prix of Argentina of the top drivers. Championship points did not exist, but Forti came with a seventh place in the last race of the season once in the immediate vicinity of a point rank.
1996 season
When Pedro Diniz left the team in late 1995 to start in the coming season with Ligier, to catastrophic effect on the financial position of Forti Corse revealed. The team was basically barely able to finance another race. In addition, the completion of a new race car should not negligible delay, so that Forti had to use the well-known year-old car for the first race, which experienced gross modifications and had nothing gained in competitiveness. Another load was due to the so-called 107- percent rule, a new qualifying format, which excluded those drivers from the race entry, the lap times was more than 107 percent of the pole driver. This rule has been introduced directly in terms of the Forti team. Andrea and Luca Badoer Montermini, the year before at Minardi active and later long-time test driver for Ferrari, failed repeatedly to the new qualification scheme. The situation came to a head in May 1996 when Carlo Gancia left the team and also the chief engineers changed weekly: On Chris Radage followed again Giorgio Stirano, then came George Ryton.
To the GP of Spain, the situation seemed to improve: The new car, the Forti FG03 was ready, and also a new sponsor was presented. The company Fin First was new partner and wanted to invest $ 20 million annually. But nothing came. Fin First, an interwoven company with offices in Milan and Ireland and an opaque Hintermann, although advertised with allegedly owned companies such as Shannon and Sokol on the Forti cars, but paid the amount due or not for the full amount. The team was only able to do a few rounds to satisfy the compulsory attendance at the GP of Great Britain. During the subsequent GP of Germany was no longer left the box since Cosworth surrendered no more engines to the team. Then Forti Corse appeared at any other Formula 1 race.