GRS Motorsport

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GRS Motorsport was a German racing team that briefly competed in the Formula 2 European Championship with a self-designed racing car .

Team history

GRS Motorsport was founded by Günther Richter, a German mechanic who worked for ATS in Formula 1 in the late 1970s and temporarily looked after the racing cars of the Formula 2 team Maurer Motorsport in 1980. In the course of 1980 Richter designed his own Formula 2 car, which was influenced by Gustav Brunner's designs for ATS and Maurer, but had much simpler solutions in detail. The car called GRS TC001 was powered by a BMW engine prepared by Mader , which was the most widely used engine in Formula 2 at the time. The vehicle was manufactured in Great Britain by the specialist company John Thompson, who had already built the MM1 mason, which Richter was looking after, the previous year. The TC001 was presented in early 1981 in the Perkins Park discotheque in Stuttgart . At this presentation date the steering collapsed in public, so that a planned test drive had to be canceled.

GRS Motorsport appeared for the first race of the 1981 Formula 2 season . Harald Grohs was initially planned as the driver ; At the beginning of the event, however, he was replaced by Jochen Dauer , who had driven four Formula 2 races in 1979 and two in 1980 for private German teams.

Overall, GRS Motorsport should only appear in two Formula 2 races. At the season opener, the International Trophy in Silverstone , Duration took part in training; the team withdrew it before the start due to technical problems. At the Jim Clark Memorial Race held a week later in Hockenheim , Duration was able to qualify with the TC001. He drove 15 laps of the race before retiring due to an engine failure.

After this race, GRS no longer competed. Usually this is attributed to financial constraints.

literature

  • David Hodges: Racing Cars from A to Z after 1945 . 1st edition Stuttgart (Motorbuch Verlag) 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
  • Jochen von Osterroth: Formula 1 “Half and Half”. Overview of the history of Maurer Motorsport in: Motorsport aktuell, issue 14/2004. Note on GRS TC 001 (referred to there as GRS01) on p. 15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Motorsport aktuell, issue 14/2004, p. 14 f.
  2. ↑ Note on the TC001 on www.atlasf1.com
  3. ↑ a b David Hodges: Racing Cars from A to Z after 1945 . 1st edition Stuttgart (Motorbuch Verlag) 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 112.