AGS JH15
The AGS JH15 was a Formula 2 racing car that was developed and built by AGS in 1978 . The car ran in individual races until 1981.
technology
The JH15 was a racing car with a shell construction , undemanding and conventional. Christian Vanderpleyn was the designer . As an engine came a BMW - M12 machine used. The gearbox came from Hewland . AGS made two copies of the JH15; they had the chassis numbers 021 and 022.
Races
Formula 2 European Championship
The car made its racing debut at the Easter race in Thruxton . At the wheel sat the French Richard Dallest , who brought the car to the finish but was not classified. The JH15 was a cumbersome and, above all, slow car. Dallest and the second AGS driver, José Dolhem , struggled with the racing car the entire season. AGS's financial resources were limited and further development of the vehicle through test drives was only possible to a limited extent. Therefore, the successes were almost predictable. The best place for the JH15 remained the eleventh place of Dallest at the Grand Prix de Nogaro . The JH15 remained as a replacement car until 1981. The JH15 contested its last Formula 2 race in July 1981 at the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo in Enna, Sicily . Richard Dallest finished eighth here.
Aurora AFX Formula 1 Series
In 1979 the JH15 appeared in a race in the Aurora AFX Formula 1 series . The AGS works team registered the car in July 1979 under the name Motul Nogaro for Alain Couderc for the Nogaro Grand Prix at the Paul Armagnac Circuit . Couderc qualified to participate in the race and held out against the strong competition, which was largely equipped with Cosworth DFV eight-cylinders, for 42 laps in the race. Then the clutch broke, a defect that AGS repeatedly encountered in the 1979 season. Couderc had to end the race early. It was the AGS team's first contact with Formula 1 and the only attempt that an AGS driver made in the Aurora series.
literature
- David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
- Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1st 2nd edition. Chronosports, St-Sulpice 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 .
