Coloni C3C

**Coloni C3C**
	Coloni C3C ; (first chassis; Grand Prix of Germany 1990)
Constructor:	Coloni
Designer:	Christian Vanderpleyn
Predecessor:	Coloni C3B
Successor:	Coloni C4
Technical specifications
Engine:	Cosworth DFR V8
Wheelbase:	2850 mm
Tires:	Goodyear
Petrol:	Agip
statistics
Driver:	Bertrand Gachot
World Cup points:	-
Podiums:	-
Leadership laps:	-
	Status: end of season

The Coloni C3C was a Formula 1 racing car of the Italian motorsport team Coloni , which was entered for eight Grand Prix in 1990 , but did not take part in any races.

Team Coloni had started the 1990 season with the C3B model , which was powered by a twelve-cylinder Subaru engine. Alongside the Life L 190, the C3B was the most unsuccessful car of the first half of the season. After the connection between Coloni and Subaru had been dissolved in June 1990, the now independent Coloni team contested the second half of the season with the C3C, which no longer had Subaru components. The C3C was re-registered as Coloni C4 in the 1991 Formula 1 season after minor revisions .

The technology

Technically, the Coloni C3C largely corresponded to the Coloni C3 presented in June 1989 . Coloni had converted one of the two C3 chassis for the Subaru engine in early 1990 and reported the model as C3B. The second C3, also manufactured in 1989, was initially unchanged and unused in the factory. After the C3B was abandoned, it formed the basis for the C3C in the summer of 1990, which was a one-off.

Like the C3, the C3C was also equipped with an eight-cylinder Cosworth engine, which was more powerful and more stable than the Subaru engine manufactured by Motori Moderni . The British engine was prepared at Langford & Peck.

There have been few changes in technical terms. The C3C was first used at the 1990 German Grand Prix . Here the C3C was still completely the same as the C3 used in 1989. Before the Hungarian Grand Prix , the car underwent minor aerodynamic modifications, which were most noticeable in the area of the engine cover. The air scoop was longer now, and the hood sloped straight down toward the gearbox.

With the C3C, Coloni reverted to a yellow color pattern that had been used in 1987, 1988 and spring 1989.

production

With new engine cover: Coloni C3C-Ford in the revised form used since the Hungarian Grand Prix in 1990

Three chassis were created one after the other from the C3C, but they were rarely ready for use next to each other.

The C3C / 1 was only used at the German Grand Prix. Gachot seriously damaged the car in an accident at the Hockenheimring .
The C3C / 3 appeared at the subsequent race in Hungary. It was the rebuilt C3C / 1, which had been given a new chassis number. It differed from the C3C / 1 by minor modifications in the rear section. It was used at the Grand Prix of Hungary and Belgium, in the three remaining races it was registered as a replacement car.
The C3C / 5 made its debut at the Italian Grand Prix. This chassis was used here and in all other races of the year.

The races

The Coloni C3C made its debut at the German Grand Prix and was regularly entered for the last eight races in 1990. The team's only driver was Bertrand Gachot , who had already driven the C3B with a Subaru engine. The C3C was significantly faster than the C3B in view of the Cosworth engine, but was still not on par with the competition. In Germany and Hungary Gachot failed in the prequalification; When, in the course of the year, Monteverdi , Life Racing and EuroBrun withdrew the need for pre-qualification, Gachot was able to take part in qualifying, but then regularly failed at this hurdle.

Results

driver	Start number	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	WM
1990
Belgium Bertrand Gachot	31									DNPQ 0	DNPQ 0	DNQ 0	DNQ 0	DNQ 0	DNQ 0	DNQ 0	DNQ 0	0	-

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. Cars, tracks and pilots. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .
Alan Henry: Auto Course 1990/91 . Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991, ISBN 0-905138-74-0 .
David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars. Crowood Press, Marlborough 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English).
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 (French).

Web links

Image of a Coloni C3C (accessed August 29, 2012)

Individual evidence

↑ Motorsport news . Issue 32, 1990, p. 10.
^ ^A ^b Alan Henry: Auto Course 1990/91. Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991, ISBN 0-905138-74-0 , p. 89.
↑ History of the development of Cosworth engines on research-racing.de (accessed on February 15, 2011).
^ Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 75.
^ Alan Henry: Auto Course 1990/91. Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991, ISBN 0-905138-74-0 , p. 188.

[1] Motorsport news . Issue 32, 1990, p. 10.

[Henry-2] A ^b Alan Henry: Auto Course 1990/91. Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991, ISBN 0-905138-74-0 , p. 89.

[3] History of the development of Cosworth engines on research-racing.de (accessed on February 15, 2011).

[4] Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 75.

[5] Alan Henry: Auto Course 1990/91. Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991, ISBN 0-905138-74-0 , p. 188.