Maki Engineering

Maki Engineering was a Japanese Formula 1 team, the 1974, 1975 and 1976 attempted to gain a foothold in the World Cup.

In 1974, the Japanese sports car brand Maki entry into the Formula 1 World Championship known. Team Manager Kenji Mimura and vehicle designers Masao Ono, who later worked for Kojima, presented an ambitious program. Within two years, the team should be established so far that regular placements could be made in the World Cup points.

The first police car, the Maki F101, this project could not even be done in piecemeal fashion. Even on closer inspection of the cars in the pits at Brands Hatch, where the race car debuted at the Grand Prix of Great Britain, came to doubt the competitiveness of the car. Howden Ganley, the factory driver at B.R.M. and had been in the sports car world championship went to the start for the team of John Wyer, had no chance to qualify for the race the F101 in training. When training for the Grand Prix of Germany Ganley had a serious accident when the F101 suspension broke. Therefore the season went ahead to end up with a cacophony.

In this vein, it also went further in 1975. The F101 has been revised, but a further qualification was not thinking. The new driver Tony Trimmer managed not to the World Cup scoring Grand Prix of Switzerland in Dijon -Prenois the only start for a Maki in a Formula 1 race. In the race he was Thirteenth and Last.

In 1976, the Maki F102, but when the team also failed at the Grand Prix of Japan in exercising, Maki retired from racing.