Coloni FC187

**Coloni FC187**
Constructor:	Coloni
Designer:	Roberto Ori
Successor:	Coloni FC188
Technical specifications
Chassis:	Monocoque
Engine:	Cosworth DFZ V8
Wheelbase:	2800 mm
Weight:	510 kg
Tires:	Goodyear
Petrol:	Agip
statistics
Driver:	Nicola Larini
First start:	1987 Portuguese Grand Prix
Last start:	1987 Portuguese Grand Prix
World Cup points:	-
Podiums:	-
Leadership laps:	-
	Status: 1987

The Coloni FC187 was a Formula 1 car of the Italian motorsport team Coloni , which was entered for two races in the 1987 Formula 1 season and took part in one race. With him Coloni made his debut in the Formula 1 World Championship. The FC187 was the first car that Coloni developed and built itself; In previous years Coloni had regularly used customer vehicles from other manufacturers in Formula 3 and Formula 3000. The FC187 was the basis for the models FC188 and FC188B , with which Coloni contested the races of the 1988 season and the first half of the 1989 season .

The technology

The Coloni FC187 was designed by Roberto Ori, a then 25-year-old engineer who had previously worked at Dallara . The model is described in the literature as a conventional construction. The monocoque was made of plastic. The dimensions of the car and the overall layout were designed in such a way that they already complied with the regulations for improving driver safety that came into force in 1988. The wheelbase was comparatively long at 2800 mm. The suspension consisted of double wishbones and tension struts on all wheels. The body was also conventional. The car did not have an airbox, but a flat engine cover, which was omitted entirely in some missions.

A naturally aspirated eight-cylinder Cosworth DFZ engine , which was prepared by Novamotor in Italy, served as the drive . As with most other small teams, the power was transmitted by a six-speed transmission from Hewland. The weight of the FC187 was given as 510 kg; This made it the heaviest naturally aspirated car in the starting field in 1987, based on the correctness of the information provided by other manufacturers.

Test runs

The Coloni FC187 was completed in early summer 1987. It remained a one-off; a second copy was not built in 1987. The car was painted bright yellow, a color that would become Coloni's trademark for the next two years.

Enzo Coloni, a former Formula 3 champion and founder of the racing team, took the first outing with the FC187 himself in the summer at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola , while the following test drives were carried out by Nicola Larini , who in 1986 drove the Formula with Coloni's team 3 championship.

Races

The Enzo Coloni Racing Car Systems team made their debut with the FC187 on the occasion of the Italian Grand Prix in September 1987 in Monza . Nicola Larini was reported as the driver after Coloni's attempts to report Franco Scapini failed due to the lack of a super license. The car was not yet completely finished at this race, but Coloni as an Italian team wanted to make its debut at a national event. Larini clearly missed the qualification in the opening race. He was almost two seconds short of qualifying and twelve seconds of Nelson Piquet's pole time .

Coloni skipped the following race in Portugal to make the car race-ready. Among other things, the aerodynamics and the position of the cooler were revised.

In the race after that in Spain , Larini was the last to qualify for the race, where he managed to leave the two turbo-powered Osella of Alex Caffi and Franco Forini behind. Larini did not finish the race, however; The suspension broke on the eighth lap, so that he was the first driver of the race to retire. Coloni again skipped the subsequent overseas races in Mexico , Japan and Australia , as the costs for the journey were too high.

The FC187 was revised in the winter of 1987/88 and reported in 1988 under the name Coloni FC188.

Results

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
1987 Formula 1 season																		0	16.
Italy Nicola Larini	32											DNQ		DNF				0	16.

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 .
David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars. Crowood Press, Marlborough 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English).
Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1st 2nd edition. Chronosports, St. Sulpice 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 (French).

Web links

Pictured Nicola Larini in the Coloni FC187 at the 1987 Spanish Grand Prix.

Individual evidence

↑ Hodges: Rennwagen von A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 57, in Ménard: La Grand Encyclopédie de la Formule 1. 2000, p. 604, he is incorrectly referred to as Mauricio Ori.
^ Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars. 2001, p. 60: "a wholly conventional car."
↑ Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. 1997, p. 378.
↑ Motorsport news . Issue 27, 1987, p. 9. These included u. a. the positioning of the pedals, which from 1988 had to be placed behind the (imaginary) front axle line.
↑ Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. 1997, p. 382. The wheelbases of the most competitive vehicles were sometimes significantly shorter in 1987; only the less powerful cars from AGS , Ligier , Osella and Zakspeed had longer wheelbases.
↑ ^a ^b Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 57.
↑ http://www.inside-racing.de/ Model history of the Coloni FC187 on the website www.inside-racing.de (accessed on February 16, 2011).
↑ Overview of the engines used in Formula 1 and the tuning companies on the website forix.autosport.com (accessed on February 16, 2011).
↑ Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. 1997, p. 382.
↑ See Hodges: Rennwagen von A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 57.

[1] Hodges: Rennwagen von A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 57, in Ménard: La Grand Encyclopédie de la Formule 1. 2000, p. 604, he is incorrectly referred to as Mauricio Ori.

[2] Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars. 2001, p. 60: "a wholly conventional car."

[3] Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. 1997, p. 378.

[4] Motorsport news . Issue 27, 1987, p. 9. These included u. a. the positioning of the pedals, which from 1988 had to be placed behind the (imaginary) front axle line.

[5] Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. 1997, p. 382. The wheelbases of the most competitive vehicles were sometimes significantly shorter in 1987; only the less powerful cars from AGS , Ligier , Osella and Zakspeed had longer wheelbases.

[Hodges_1945-6] Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 57.

[7] ttp://www.inside-racing.de/ Model history of the Coloni FC187 on the website www.inside-racing.de (accessed on February 16, 2011).

[8] Overview of the engines used in Formula 1 and the tuning companies on the website forix.autosport.com (accessed on February 16, 2011).

[9] Cimarosti: The Century of Racing. 1997, p. 382.

[10] See Hodges: Rennwagen von A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 57.