EuroBrun ER188 F1 car
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Production period: | 1988 |
Class: | Race car |
Team: | EuroBrun |
Body versions : | F1 |
The EuroBrun ER188 was a Formula 1 race car of the Italian team EuroBrun Racing for 1988.
History
The EuroBrun ER188 was a racing car of the Italian Formula 1 team EuroBrun Racing . This was the first car of the newly founded racing team and was used in its original form in the 1988 Formula 1 season . A revised version called EuroBrun ER188B was used in 1989 .
The ER188 was developed by the Euroracing technicians in Italy. Responsible designers were Bruno Zava and Mario Tollentino, who had already designed the Alfa Romeo 184T . Gianpaolo Pavanello, the owner of Euroracing, described the vehicle as conventional.This was true, for example, the car's nose, the monocoque, the roll bar and the semi-circular motor cover. Eddie Cheever , who had driven the 184T himself, thought the EuroBrun ER188 was just a revision of the four-year-old Alfa design.Feature of the ER188 was his high, monocoque ,which reminded in its dimensions rather to the early 1980s and 1988 already stood out as unusual.
The suspension consisted of front thrust and rear struts. It was powered by an eight-cylinder Cosworth engine (type DFZ ), which was prepared by Heini Mader Racing Components in Switzerland. Power was transmitted through a six-speed gearbox developed by Eurobrun using Hewland components .During the year, three ER188 chassis were built.
EuroBrun Racing was a racing team that emerged in 1987 from a collaboration between Euroracing and Brun Motorsport . The Swiss entrepreneur Walter Brun , the owner of Brun Motorsport, took over the financing of the Formula 1 team, while the technical side including the racing missions was in the hands of Euroracing. Here also the development of the ER 188 took place. Euroracing already had Formula 1 experience: The company had organized between 1983 and 1985 on behalf of Alfa Romeo, the Formula 1 involvement of the Italian car manufacturer.
