Coloni FC188B

The Coloni FC188B in the livery from 1989

The Coloni FC188B was a Formula 1 car of the Italian motorsport team Coloni , which was entered in the second half of the 1988 season in the first half of the 1989 season for eleven Grand Prix. The car was unsuccessful; the team could only qualify for three races with him and reached the finish line. During 1989 the FC188B was replaced by the Coloni C3 .

The technology

The Coloni FC188B was a further development of the FC188 introduced in 1988 . The FC188B was not a newly built vehicle; rather, Coloni had retrofitted the two youngest copies of the three FC188 produced in 1988 to B-models. The basic structures of the FC188, which in turn could be traced back to the FC187 from 1987 , remained unchanged: The chassis, the suspension and the drive technology were adopted unmodified for the B-model; the same applied to numerous parts of the body. New elements of the B-model were above all redesigned, shorter side pods in which the radiators were given a different position, as well as a modified exhaust system and new front and rear wings. Externally, the FC188B was mainly recognizable by the smaller and further back air outlet openings in the side pods. Before the 1989 season began, there were other small improvements. The FC188B was a heavy car. According to Pierre-Henri Raphanel , the excess weight was around 50 kg in early 1989.

An eight-cylinder Cosworth engine continued to serve as the drive . In 1988 the team used a DFZ engine prepared by Novamotor, in 1989 it was a DFR prepared by Mader.

The races

The Coloni FC188B entered the 1988 season with five and in the spring of 1989 six grand prizes.

1988 Formula 1 season

The yellow painted FC188B made its debut at the 1988 Italian Grand Prix in Monza . As in the entire 1988 season, Coloni's only driver was Gabriele Tarquini . In Monza, like later in Australia , Tarquini missed the qualification, in Spain and Japan he already failed due to the pre-qualification. Tarquini only took part in the Portuguese Grand Prix . He finished the race in eleventh. That was the last finish in Coloni's Formula 1 involvement, which lasted until 1991.

1989 Formula 1 season

In 1989 Coloni reported two yellow-green painted vehicles of the type FC188B. They should bridge the time until the C3 designed by Christian Vanderpleyn was ready for use. The FC188B turned out to be the weakest cars in the field alongside the cars from EuroBrun and AGS .

In 1989, the drivers of FC188B were Roberto Moreno and Pierre-Henri Raphanel. Moreno was exempt from pre-qualification in the first half of the 1989 season, while Raphanel was subject to pre-qualification. Both drivers could only qualify for one race each - the Monaco Grand Prix . Here, however, both retired early after engine damage. Coloni had installed old, worn transmission parts in the two cars because new transmissions were reserved for the upcoming C3.

From the Canadian Grand Prix , the team used the new C3 for both drivers. In the pre-qualification for the Hungarian Grand Prix , however, the FC188B appeared again with Pierre-Henri Raphanel, who two weeks earlier had damaged his C3 so badly that it could not be used in Hungary. Here, too, Raphanel failed due to the pre-qualification.

Results

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
1988 Formula 1 season																		0	-
G. Tarquini	31												DNQ	11	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNQ

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
1989 Formula 1 season																		0	-
R. Moreno	31	DNQ	DNQ	DNF	DNQ	DNQ
P. Raphanel	32	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNF	DNPQ	DNPQ					DNPQ

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)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	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 , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9
• David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English)
• David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7
• Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars 1906-2001, p. 60.
2. ↑ Auto Course 1988/89, p. 37.
3. ^ Ménard, p. 604.
4. ↑ Auto Course 1988/89, p. 157.
5. ↑ Hodges: Racing Cars from AZ after 1945, p. 57.
6. ↑ Motorsport aktuell, issue 20/1989, p. 7.
7. ↑ Overview of the engines used in Formula 1 and the tuning companies on the website forix.autosport.com (accessed on February 17, 2011).
8. ^ NN: My Only Grand Prix: 1989 Monaco - Pierre Henry Raphanel . In: Motorsport Magazine, June 2004, p. 31.