Dallara 3087

The Dallara 3087 was a racing car designed for Formula 3000 by the Italian manufacturer Dallara , which contested several races in this series in 1987 and 1988 . In addition, he was registered in 1988 by the team BMS Scuderia Italia for a race in the Formula 1 World Championship .

background

Dallara is a Parma- based racing car manufacturer that has been designing chassis for Formula 3 since 1978 and became the most successful chassis supplier in both the national championships of this series and the European Formula 3 championships in the mid-1980s. In the autumn of 1986, the company first developed a chassis for the Formula 3000 with the 3087, which was ready for use from 1987.

construction

The Dallara 3087 followed contemporary design principles: It had a monocoque made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic , a suspension with double wishbones , front tension and rear thrust struts. A 3.0 liter Cosworth eight-cylinder DFV engine, prepared by Heini Mader Racing Components , served as the drive .

Stakes in Formula 3000

1987: Euroventurini

For the 1987 season, Dallara made three copies of the 3087. They went exclusively to the Euroventurini team , which arose from a cooperation between the Formula 3 racing team Euroracing and its competitor Venturini Racing . Euroventurini received technical support from Dallara engineers when using the car.

In 1987 Euroventurini reported two vehicles of the type Dallara 3087. One car was driven by Marco Apicella in all races of the season . He only finished in the points once when he finished fifth in the race at Spa-Francorchamps. The second car was driven in succession by Jari Nurminen , Guido Daccò and Nicola Tesini . None of the three pilots could win a championship point. At the end of the season, Euroventurini gave up its Formula 3000 commitment.

1988: Forti Corse

For the 1988 Formula 3000 season, the Forti Corse competing team took over two copies of the 3087. Enrico Bertaggia and Fernando Croceri were drivers . Neither of them scored a championship point. Forti abandoned the 3087 before the end of the 1988 season.

Use in Formula 1

Euroracing

As early as the summer of 1987, Euroracing owner Gianpaolo Pavanello was considering returning to Formula 1 in 1988 with a modified Dallara 3087. This plan was abandoned after Euroracing entered into a cooperation with Walter Brun in the autumn of 1987 and founded the EuroBrun Racing team , which took part in the 1988 Formula 1 World Championship with its own cars financed by Brun.

BMS Scuderia Italia

The 3087 was reported for a Formula 1 race in April 1988. The report was made by the BMS Scuderia Italia racing team.

background

The Brescia- based team BMS Scuderia Italia was founded in autumn 1987 and entered the Formula 1 World Championship for the first time in 1988 . Due to the regulations, the team had to compete in a racing car that was not used by any other racing team in this class; Pure customer vehicles were then not allowed in Formula 1. Most Formula 1 teams designed their racing cars themselves with this in mind; In addition, it occasionally happened that a team had its car developed and built for an established racing car manufacturer on a commission basis. The French team Larrousse went this way from 1987 when it teamed up with the British manufacturer Lola Cars .

Since Scuderia Italia did not have an infrastructure that would allow it to develop its own competitive car, the team entered into a cooperation with the Italian racing car manufacturer Dallara, which had not previously developed a Formula 1 car, in the fall of 1987.

The completion of the planned Formula 1 car was delayed in the winter of 1987/88. In March 1988 it became apparent that the car would not be ready for the first race of the season in Brazil . For the team, however, there was an obligation to compete in each of the 16 races of the season; skipping a race would have excluded the team from the entire season. In order to meet the obligation to participate, Scuderia Italia registered the Dallara 3087 for the first race of the year. The British team March , which had contested its first race with the Formula 3000 car March 87P , had already done a similar thing a year earlier .

Racing use

The Dallara 3087 had not undergone any technical changes for use at the Brazilian Grand Prix. It was still equipped with the 3.0 liter DFV eight-cylinder engine, although the Formula 1 regulations had allowed naturally aspirated engines with 3.5 liters displacement since 1987. According to press reports, the 3087 in Brazil was still equipped with a rev limiter prescribed for the Formula 3000, which automatically cut the engine down at 9,000 revolutions per minute.

As a new team, Dallara was subject to Coloni , EuroBrun and Rial Racing in the prequalification in 1988 , which this year was held as part of the first free practice session on the Friday before the race. The driver who achieved the slowest lap time in this hour was not pre-qualified and excluded from participating in further training runs and the race itself.

The Dallara 3087 was looked after by just four mechanics at the Brazilian Grand Prix. The driver was Alex Caffi . As expected by the team, he missed the pre-qualification. In 17 laps he achieved a time that was 18.5 seconds longer than Ayrton Senna's pole time ; the time for a qualification he missed by 9 seconds.

There was no further Formula 1 use of the 3087 in Formula 1. One week after the Brazilian Grand Prix, the Dallara 188 debuted , a vehicle designed for Formula 1, with which Scuderia Italia regularly competed from the San Marino Grand Prix .

Results in Formula 1

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	-
Italy Alex Caffi	36	DNPQ																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 .
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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 72.
↑ Motorsport news . Issue 22, 1987.
↑ Euroracing was in charge of Alfa Romeo 's Formula 1 racing from 1983 to 1985 .
↑ One exception is the De Tomaso 308/505, which Giampaolo Dallara had developed in 1970 for the Italian sports car manufacturer De Tomaso and which was used by Frank Williams Racing Cars for Piers Courage .
↑ ^a ^b Motorsport news. Issue 15, 1988, p. 8.
↑ Motorsport news. Issue 16, 1988, p. 34.
↑ According to press reports, the team had already booked a return flight for Friday evening in advance. See Motorsport aktuell. Issue 15, 1988, p. 8.

[Hodges_1945-1] Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1994, p. 72.

[2] Motorsport news . Issue 22, 1987.

[3] Euroracing was in charge of Alfa Romeo 's Formula 1 racing from 1983 to 1985 .

[4] One exception is the De Tomaso 308/505, which Giampaolo Dallara had developed in 1970 for the Italian sports car manufacturer De Tomaso and which was used by Frank Williams Racing Cars for Piers Courage .

[ReferenceA-5] Motorsport news. Issue 15, 1988, p. 8.

[6] Motorsport news. Issue 16, 1988, p. 34.

[7] According to press reports, the team had already booked a return flight for Friday evening in advance. See Motorsport aktuell. Issue 15, 1988, p. 8.