ATS HS1

**ATS HS1**
	ATS HS1
Constructor:	ATS Racing Team
Designer:	Robin Herd ; John Gentry
Successor:	ATS D1
Technical specifications
Chassis:	aluminum
Wheelbase:	2720 mm
Weight:	585 kg
Tires:	Goodyear
statistics
Driver:	9. Jochen Mass Michael Bleekemolen 10. Jean-Pierre Jarier Alberto Colombo Keke Rosberg Hans Binder Harald Ertl ; ; ; ; ; ;
First start:	1978 Argentina Grand Prix
Last start:	US Grand Prix East 1978
World Cup points:	-
Podiums:	-
Leadership laps:	-

The ATS HS1 was the first self-constructed racing car of the German Formula 1 racing team ATS Racing . The vehicle was created in three copies and was used by seven drivers in the 1978 Formula 1 season . The ATS HS1 did not score world championship points.

background

Auto Technical Special Accessories (ATS) , founded in 1969, is a manufacturer of automotive accessories that primarily produces light alloy wheels. In the early 1970s, under the leadership of its co-owner Günter Schmid, ATS began sponsoring motor sport events for advertising purposes. In 1975 ATS financed a season in Formula Vee for the Finnish racing driver Mikko Kozarowitzky . The following year, ATS Wheels appeared with Kozarowitzky and Reinhold Joest as their own racing team in Formula 2 , but was not successful there. At the beginning of 1977 , ATS took over the material from the UK-based Formula 1 team Penske . ATS reported last year's Penske PC4 for Jean-Pierre Jarier this year and scored a world championship point in his first race. Apart from that, the season was "chaotic" and brought no further successes. For the Formula 1 season, ATS took over the material from the former Formula 1 works team from March Engineering , which had withdrawn from Formula 1 at the end of the 1977 season, and relocated the headquarters of the racing team to the old March facilities in the UK Bicester . Former March employees constructed their own car there for Schmid: the ATS HS1. With this, ATS went from a customer team to an independent designer. With the HS1, the team reached only a few target arrivals, all of which were outside of the points. The car was replaced by the new, short-lived ATS D1 before the 1978 season ended .

construction

The designers of the ATS HS1 were Robin Herd , one of the founders of March Engineering, and John Gentry . Some observers consider the HS1 to be a completely new design; According to other sources, however, it was merely a revised version of the Penske PC4 designed by Geoff Ferris in 1976, which in turn was strongly based on the March 751 of 1975.

The HS1 had a full aluminum monocoque . The front and rear tracks were slightly enlarged compared to the PC4 (1500 mm to 1422 mm at the front and 1525 mm to 1473 mm at the rear), the suspension corresponded to that of the PC4 and its predecessor Penske PC3 . Compared to the PC4, the HS1 had a flatter front section and a less rugged engine cover. A Cosworth DFV suction engine with a displacement of 3.0 liters served as the drive. A five-speed transmission from Hewland (type FG400) took over the power transmission . Goodyear supplied the tires .

In the 1978 Formula 1 season, the Lotus team dominated , having "revolutionized Formula 1" with the consistent implementation of the ground effect . Some teams copied this technique during the season. ATS, on the other hand, did not initially recognize the advantages of the ground effect. The ATS HS1, which was considered obsolete in its conception, could not be converted in such a way that a suction effect could have arisen under the side pods.

Critics complained about the poor handling of the car. The technical support of the car by the mechanics was also inadequate. Jochen Mass primarily blamed team boss Günter Schmid for this deficit: Schmid interfered in many details without knowing it and even prescribed the mechanics “how to hold a wrench”.

production

Three copies of the ATS HS1 were made during the year. The team competed with the chassis HS1 / 1 and HS1 / 2 for the vast majority of the season; the third chassis only appeared at two Grand Prix.

The individual chassis were used in 1978 as follows:

Grand Prix	ATS HS1 / 1	ATS HS1 / 2	ATS HS1 / 3
Argentina Argentina	Jochen Mass	Jean-Pierre Jarier
Brazil Brazil	Jochen Mass	Jean-Pierre Jarier Jochen Mass
South Africa South Africa	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Jochen Mass
United States USA West	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Jochen Mass
Monaco Monaco	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Jochen Mass
Belgium Belgium	Jochen Mass Alberto Colombo
Spain Spain	Jochen Mass	Alberto Colombo
Sweden Sweden	Jochen Mass	Keke Rosberg
France France	Jochen Mass		Keke Rosberg
United Kingdom Great Britain	Jochen Mass	Keke Rosberg
Germany Germany	Jochen Mass	Jean-Pierre Jarier
Austria Austria	Jochen Mass	Hans Binder
Netherlands Netherlands	Jochen Mass	Michael Bleekemolen
Italy Italy		Harald Ertl	Michael Bleekemolen
United States USA East		Michael Bleekemolen
Canada Canada		Michael Bleekemolen

Races

The ATS team entered two cars for each race in 1978. Schmid signed a total of seven drivers who were “good, bad and somewhere in between”. Most of them were considered paydrivers . Initially it was planned that Robin Herd would look after the cars as a race engineer on the race weekends. Herd left the team, however, after disagreements with Schmid before the first race of the season. John Gentry was his successor.

Achieved the best race result of the HS1: Jochen Mass

The regular driver was Jochen Mass , who was used from 1974 to 1977 in the established British team McLaren, which is much larger than ATS, as the second man alongside Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt . He was considered an experienced pilot who should give the team stability. Mass justified his move to ATS with the person of Robin Herd, whom he trusted to design high-performance racing cars.

Mass competed in the first 13 races of the year for ATS. He finished six times; his best result was seventh place in the second race of the year in Brazil . However, this race caused some unrest in the team. Mass had badly damaged his car in a training accident. Günter Schmid then assigned him his teammate's car for the race, who was unable to take part in the race even though he had achieved a significantly better starting position than Mass. In both Austria and the Netherlands , Mass missed the qualification. In the week after the Zandvoort race, Mass had a serious accident in a test accident at Silverstone ; he then had to end his Formula 1 involvement for the rest of the season. His successor was Michael Bleekemolen from the Netherlands , who only qualified once in four appearances for ATS. At the Grand Prix of the USA East in Watkins Glen he started the race 25th and penultimate, but had to give up prematurely after 43 of 59 laps due to a defect in the oil pump.

Bruno Giacomelli was initially planned for the second car, but after initial negotiations with ATS, he decided in favor of the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team, which was currently being built . Instead, Jean-Pierre Jarier drove in the first five races of the year , who had already been a regular at ATS the previous year. Jarier finished three times; his best result was eighth place at the third world championship run of the year in South Africa . He returned to ATS for the German Grand Prix . Here he missed the qualification.

The Italian racing driver Alberto Colombo made his debut in the second ATS at the Belgian Grand Prix . Without ever having sat in HS1 before, he survived the pre-qualification in Zolder ; here he prevailed against Arturo Merzario and Héctor Rebaque . In qualifying, Colombo missed qualification by more than a second; he was over five seconds slower than polesitter Mario Andretti (Lotus). In the following race in Spain Colombo was eliminated in the qualification.

At the following race in Sweden , Colombo was replaced by the Finn Keke Rosberg , who was actually under contract with Theodore Racing , but was without a cockpit for the early summer races after his team had temporarily withdrawn from Formula 1. Rosberg started in Sweden, France and Great Britain in the second ATS. He qualified for every race and finished twice - 15th in Anderstorp and 16th in Paul Ricard . After that, Theodore was back to racing. For the last two races of 1978, Rosberg returned to ATS; but here he drove the newly designed ATS D1.

For the last four European races, ATS registered four different drivers for the second HS1: Jarier for the German Grand Prix, Hans Binder for the race in Austria , Michael Bleekemolen for the Dutch Grand Prix and Harald Ertl for the race in Italy . Neither of them could qualify.

Race results in Formula 1

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
Automobile World Championship 1978																		0	-
Germany J. Mass	9	11	7th	DNF	DNF	DNQ	11	9	13	13	NC	DNF	DNQ	DNQ
Netherlands M. Bleekemolen	9														DNQ	DNF	DNQ
France JP. Jarier	10	12	DNS	8th	11	DNQ						DNQ
Italy A. Colombo							DNQ	DNQ
Finland K. Rosberg									15th	16	DNF
Austria H. Binder													DNQ
Netherlands M. Bleekemolen														DNQ
Germany H. Ertl															DNQ

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	^P / bold	Pole position
	_SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

literature

Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing . 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .

David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001. Crowood Press, 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2 . (English)

David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .

Ferdi Krähling, Gregor Messer: Sieg or Selters. The German drivers in Formula 1 . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3686-9 .

Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1st 2nd edition. St. Sulpice 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 . (French)

Doug Nye: The Big Book of Formula 1 Racing Cars . The three-liter formula from 1966. Rudolf Müller publishing company, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X .

Web links

Commons : ATS HS1 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Racing history of the ATS HS1 on the website www.oldracingcars.com

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Doug Nye: The great book of Formula 1 racing cars . The three-liter formula from 1966. Rudolf Müller publishing company, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 167.

↑ ^a ^b Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing. 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 289.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1st 2nd edition. St. Sulpice 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 , p. 136.

↑ ^a ^b David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 23 f.

^ David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 208.

↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing. 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 283.

↑ ^a ^b David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001. Crowood Press, 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2 , p. 26.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ferdi Krähling, Gregor Messer: Sieg or Selters. The German drivers in Formula 1 . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3686-9 , 57.

↑ ^a ^b racing history of the ATS HS1 on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on May 23, 2014).

^ Biography of Alberto Colombo on the website www.f1rejects.com (accessed on May 23, 2014).

[Nye-1] Doug Nye: The great book of Formula 1 racing cars . The three-liter formula from 1966. Rudolf Müller publishing company, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 167.

[Cimarosti-2] Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing. 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 289.

[Ménard-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1st 2nd edition. St. Sulpice 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 , p. 136.

[Hodges_D-4] David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 23 f.

[5] David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 208.

[6] Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing. 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 283.

[Hodges_UK-7] David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001. Crowood Press, 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2 , p. 26.

[Selters_57-8] Ferdi Krähling, Gregor Messer: Sieg or Selters. The German drivers in Formula 1 . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3686-9 , 57.

[oldracingcars-9] racing history of the ATS HS1 on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on May 23, 2014).

[10] Biography of Alberto Colombo on the website www.f1rejects.com (accessed on May 23, 2014).