Lola T93/30
The Lola T93/30 was a Formula 1 racing car, the BMS Scuderia Italia, the 1993 started in the Formula 1 World Championship.
Development history and technology
Since entering the Scuderia Italia in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1988, entrusted the leadership team of the Italian racing team on constructions of Dallara. For the racing season 1993 you entered into an agreement with the British race car builder Lola Cars, who was commissioned to develop a new racing car. The heart was the unit that had the 3.5-liter Ferrari engine with the type designation 040 Scuderia started racing engines 1992 to deliver to competing teams and paid Minardi current race cars, the M191 with engines off. After just one year, ended this agreement and the Scuderia Italia now got the contract.
The T93/30 was developed by Eric Broadley at Lola in Huntingdon, where in addition to the chassis, the gearbox was. The T93/30 was a conventional formula 1 car. For cost reasons, mainly due to lack of technology access Broadley dispensed with traction control and active suspension, which were common in other vehicles this year. The racing car was struggling to start the season with weight problems and was only vote bad. The two works driver Michele Alboreto and Luca Badoer complained the whole year, the poor handling of the car.
The T93/30 was the slowest race car of the season and was elected in 2009 in a survey of the British car magazine Autosport for fifth worst Formula 1 racing cars motor sports history.
Racing history
His racing debut of Lola T93/30 at the Grand Prix of South Africa on the circuit of Kyalami. In qualifying, Michele Alboreto and Luca Badoer achieved only grid positions 25 and 26 and complained about this poor driveability of the car; on the 24 placed Minardi M193 by Fabrizio Barbazza missing Alboreto almost a second. With a time of 1.21,893 minutes he was 6.1 seconds slower than the fastest qualifier Alain Prost in the Williams FW15C. Badoer was slower still by three seconds. In the race, both T93/30 failed. Badoer had after 20 laps off a gearbox failure and Alboreto had his car after 55 laps because of the Ferrari engine was completely overheated.
Before the second race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix, there was a precarious for the Scuderia rule change. From this race should only be allowed to start out the training of the respective races, the 24 fastest cars. For the slow Lola T93/30 would have can have fatal consequences. Finally, the FIA agreed on 25 Sartre, so that at least one car from each team was able to attend the races. Amazingly, both Lola could qualify for the race in Interlagos. First non- qualifier this new scheme was Ivan Capelli in the Jordan 193 Both vehicles crossed the finish line. Alboreto classified as eleventh; Badoer was twelfth.
The third race of the season was the European Grand Prix at Donington Park. While Luca Badoer was first affected by a non- qualifying, Michele Alboreto finished the race in eleventh place again; However, he had the target a backlog of six rounds on the winner Ayrton Senna, who drove a McLaren MP4 / 8. After the first three races it was clear that the Lola T93/30 was the slowest car in the field and under normal racing conditions, it seemed impossible a place among the top six binned vehicles to reach and to achieve world championship points.
Including the Grand Prix of San Marino Michele Alboreto missed six attempts to qualify, five times the qualification. In this phase, Badoer achieved his best season placement with the seventh rank in Imola.
The lowest residue on the top had the Scuderia Italia Lola at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza. Ferrari had the 040 engines equipped with pneumatic valves, which has an advantageous effect on the response of the engines. Badoer finished the race with a gap of 2 rounds on the winner Damon Hill in tenth.
The last race was the T93/30 in September 1993 at the Grand Prix of Portugal. At this time had Giuseppe Lucchini, the owner of the Scuderia Italia, announce the merger of his team with Minardi from the Formula 1 1994 season and did not start at the last two World Cup races of the year.