EuroBrun ER188B F1 car
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Production period: | 1989 |
Class: | Race car |
Team: | EuroBrun |
Body versions : | F1 |
The EuroBrun ER188B was a Formula 1 race car of the Italian team EuroBrun Racing for 1989.
History
The EuroBrun ER188B was an interim model based on the ER188 used in the previous year , which should bridge the time until the appearance of the newly constructed successor model ER189 . The ER188B proved not to be competitive.EuroBrun had in 1988, in his first Formula 1 season, can not achieve success.
The EuroBrun ER188B was structurally identical to the ER 188 designed by Bruno Zava and Mario Tollentino. The monocoque , chassis and most of the bodywork corresponded to the predecessor model. New were only the engine and some details in his environment. While the car was powered by a Cosworth DFZ engine last year , it now received a Judd CV- type CV engine . Its use had its roots in the temporary connection between EuroBrun and Brabham: in late 1988, when both teams were led by Brun and Lüthi, the Swiss businessmen took over the contingent of Judd engines, which 1988 by Williamshad been used. Also new are the tires were finally: Did the team last year Goodyear based tires, it used 1,989 copies of Pirelli .
The car was difficult to tune. To make matters worse, that neither the driver nor the race engineer had enough experience in the coordination work. On the other hand, the team leader Gianpaolo Pavanello repeatedly gave voting recommendations that contradicted the work of the race engineer.
The ER188B was generally considered an outdated, non-competitive car. Critics noted that the ER188B still had no air scoop, which had been part of the state of the art for some time, even on smaller teams. Although at least one of the ER188B - unlike its predecessors - increased engine coverage; but she disguised only the massive roll bar and had no accumulation function, which could have led to a better air supply to the engine. The lack of competitiveness of the outdated cars was responsible for much that EuroBrun became the worst team of the season 1989
The outdated ER188, the cause of the lack of benefits. Team principal Walter Brun therefore commissioned the construction of a fundamentally new car for the second season. Initial plans had been made to use the resources of the British Brabham team, which Brun had taken over in late 1988 from Bernie Ecclestone in collaboration with the Swiss businessman Joachim Lüthi . However, since the regulations required each team to build their own car, the desired synergy effects could not be realized. Then Brun commissioned the British designer George Ryton with the development of the new car, which should receive the designation ER 189. Ryton began working on it in January 1989. Due to the late start was not completed the ER189 early in the season 1989 The difficult financial situation of the team led to further delays.
Until the completion of the new car EuroBrun denied the 1989 season with a slightly revised ER188 in the B specification, which was intended as a cost-effective stopgap, but contrary to expectations for more than half of the season became a deployment device.
The EuroBrun ER188B was announced to nine of 16 World Championship races of the Formula 1 1989 season. The driver was Swiss Gregor Foitek , who made his debut at EuroBrun this year. At the inaugural race in Brazil Foitek achieved the pre-qualification; later he retired, however, in the qualification. In all other attempts up to the Grand Prix of Great Britain , on the other hand, he failed already with some significant lag behind the prequalification.
Foitek and EuroBrun split up after the Belgian Grand Prix. Foitek's successor was Oscar Larrauri , who regularly used the ER189. Until the end of the season, a ER188B served as a replacement vehicle.
