HB Bewaking Systems
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| Surname | HB Bewaking Systems |
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| Companies | HB Bewaking Systems |
| Company headquarters | Bovenkerk ( NL ) |
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| statistics | |
| First Grand Prix | Spain 1976 |
| Last Grand Prix | Italy 1977 |
| Race driven | 7th |
| Constructors' championship | - |
| Drivers World Championship | - |
| Race wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Points | 0 |
HB Bewaking Systems is the name of a Dutch motorsport team that competed in Formula 1 races in 1976 and 1977 . The team is sometimes called " Boro " in the literature . This designation is incorrect; Boro was just the name of the car with which HB Bewaking Systems competed in Formula 1.
HB Bewaking is the only Formula 1 team that not only competed with a Dutch license, but also operated in the Netherlands.
The background
The company Hoogenbooms Bewakingsdienst BV has been active as a security and surveillance company in the Netherlands since 1958. Since 1969 it has been run by the brothers Bob and Rody Hoogenboom. In the 1970s, the company occasionally appeared as a sponsor in international motorsport. In 1976 and 1977, HB Bewaking finally came into possession of a Formula 1 car, more by chance than planned, for which a team was finally set up.
HB Bewaking as sponsor
Smaller motorsport classes
HB Bewaking supported the Dutch racing driver Roelof Wunderink since the early 1970s . From 1971 to 1972 Wunderink drove in the Formula Ford 1600 for two years ; in the second season he won the championship. 1973 Wunderink got promoted to Formula 3 with the support of HB Bewaking , but only took part in selected races and could not achieve any notable results. In the following season, the funds from HB Bewaking enabled the young Dutchman to play in the European Formula 5000 . The team was registered under the name HB Bewaking , but apart from sponsorship contracts had no legal relationship with the security company HB Bewaking. In fact, Wunderink and some mechanics did the job themselves. Wunderink moved a Chevron car from last year (type B24); it was the car with which Teddy Pilette won the Formula 5000 championship in 1973. Wunderink did not reach podium places. Nonetheless, HB made it possible to advance to Formula 1.
Sponsor in Formula 1
For the Formula 1 1975 season , the possibility of an alliance resulted with the team Ensign of Mo Nunn . The British team had a difficult 1974 season . After the long-time driver Rikky von Opel withdrew from Ensign at the end of 1973, leaving the team without a sponsor, it was able to compete with its drivers Vern Schuppan and later Mike Wilds in the 1974 season, but not in all world championship races. A sponsorship contract with HB Bewaking suggested an improvement in the situation for the 1975 season.
The team now called "HB Bewaking Ensign" appeared at the beginning of the European season in 1974 in Spain with Roelof Wunderink as the only driver and a car from last year, the Ensign N174. Wunderink qualified for his Formula 1 debut, but retired after 20 laps due to a broken suspension. At the second European race, the Monaco Grand Prix , Wunderink missed the qualification. For the following week, when there was no Formula 1 race, a Formula 5000 race was scheduled at Circuit Park Zandvoort , for which Wunderink registered with the “AGDean” team with a used Chevron . Before that, he did private test drives. He suffered a serious accident that resulted in several broken bones and tied Wunderink to the bed for several weeks. Ensign then left out the two subsequent Formula 1 races in Belgium and Sweden ; for the race in the Netherlands - again with the support of HB Bewaking - Gijs van Lennep was committed, who also drove in France and Germany . A new car was presented at the Dutch Grand Prix, largely financed by HB Bewaking and designed by former Lotus engineer Dave Baldwin . This model, the Ensign N175 , corresponded in many details to the very successful Lotus 72 from 1970 , which was also made by Baldwin, and was therefore conceptually not up to date in the opinion of some observers. The N175 was first used at the French Grand Prix. There van Lennep finished sixth in Germany and scored the first world championship point for Ensign. From the Grand Prix of Great Britain Wunderink drove again. At the Italian Grand Prix , “HB Bewaking Ensign” entered two cars once, with the regular driver Wunderink receiving a previous year's N174 , while Chris Amon , the new driver, was allowed to compete with the current N175, which was still a one-off. Wunderink could not qualify with the old vehicle.
After the last race of the 1975 Formula 1 season, Wunderink ended his motorsport career. With regard to the further use of the Ensign N175, a hard-fought legal battle ensued between HB Bewaking and Mo Nunn, which ended with HB Bewaking receiving the rights to the N175. Nunn handed the car over to the former sponsor, which was to remain unique. In 1976, Ensign initially competed for Chris Amon with old N174 cars, before a new car called the N176 was completed in the spring of 1976 , which of course had many of the N175 features.
HB Bewaking with its own Formula 1 team
1976
Now in possession of the only N175 produced, Bob and Rody Hoogenboom, the owners of HB Bewaking, decided to use the racing car on their own. For this purpose, a small workshop was set up in the Dutch municipality of Bovenkerk , which was to become the headquarters of the young Formula 1 team. A few mechanics operated here - some newspaper reports speak of no more than three mechanics - who made individual changes to the Ensign N175. The car was then named Boro 001; the name was derived from the first syllables of the first names of the team owners Bob and Rody Hoogenboom. A conventional Cosworth DFV engine served as the drive .
As a driver, the Australian was Larry Perkins obliged in 1973 with its own car under the name "Team Cowangie" had been active in the European Formula 3 Championship and 1975 European Formula 3 championship with a factory Ralt had win can . His only Formula 1 appearance to date was the 1974 German Grand Prix for Chris Amon's team, for which he had not been able to qualify.
HB Bewaking, Larry Perkins and the white painted Boro 001 with start number 37 made their racing debut at the 1976 Spanish Grand Prix in Jarama . Perkins qualified last, 3.0 seconds behind James Hunt's pole time in the McLaren ; the difference to Chris Amon, who drove the new factory Ensign N176, was 1.7 seconds. He finished the race 13th and last, three laps behind, while Amon was fifth. At the Belgian Grand Prix, Perkins started the race in 20th place and finished in eighth place. This respectable result should be the final finish for HB Bewaking. At the Monaco Grand Prix, Perkins missed the qualification, in Sweden he dropped out with engine failure. The team did not participate in the four following races in France, Great Britain, Germany and Austria ; It only appeared again at the home race in Zandvoort (this time with start number 27). Perkins started 19th, but retired after a driving error in the middle of the race. There was another use at the Italian Grand Prix, where Perkins qualified for a sensational 13th place on the grid, three places behind the works Ensign under Jacky Ickx and 14 places ahead of the eventual world champion James Hunt. In the race, however, Perkins retired with engine failure.
After this race there were three more races overseas (the Grand Prix of Canada , USA East and Japan ), in which HB Bewaking could not take part for financial reasons. Larry Perkins managed to switch to the Brabham team for these overseas races, where he replaced Carlos Reutemann, who had migrated to Scuderia Ferrari . HB Bewaking, however, left his work on hold for the time being.
1977
In the coming season, the HB Bewaking team appeared at two events: the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort and the subsequent Italian Grand Prix in Monza . In both cases the Boro 001 was reported as an emergency vehicle. The driver was Brian Henton , who had already driven a few races for Team Lotus in 1975. In 1977 Henton had contested the Grand Prix of Spain, Great Britain and Austria in a privately entered March 761 with his own British Formula One Racing Team , albeit without being able to qualify on these occasions.
At the Circuit Park Zandvoort , Henton appeared for the first time with the two-year-old Boro 001 for the HB Bewaking Team. He qualified for 23rd place on the grid, 2.4 seconds behind pole setter Mario Andretti in the Lotus. He was disqualified in the race after being illegally pushed back onto the track by marshals after a spin. Henton was unable to qualify on his last appearance in Monza. This would be Brian Henton's last Formula 1 race in the years to come; It wasn't until 1980 that he drove again, this time for the newly founded Toleman team.
Follow-up: one last attempt in 1978
Following the Italian Grand Prix, HB Bewaking ended his motorsport involvement. The Boro 001 and the team's equipment were sold to Mario Deliotti Racing . The British team fielded the car alongside older March and Hesketh Racing cars for Geoff Lees and Bruce Allison in the 1978 Aurora series .
Once the car, which had long been known under the name Boro 001, was entered for a race in the Formula 1 World Championship: At the 1978 British Grand Prix , Mario Deliotti Racing competed with the now three-year-old car under Geoff Lees ; this time, however, the car was again referred to as the Ensign N175. A Cosworth DFV motor served as the drive. However, Lees missed qualification by 0.4 seconds on this occasion. Neither Mario Deliotti Racing nor the N175 or Boro 001 appeared again in a Formula 1 race.
literature
- Pierre Ménard: La grande encyclopédie de la Formule 1 . 2nd edition, St.-Sulpice, Switzerland, 2000, ISBN 2-940-125-45-7 (French)
- Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing . 1st edition, Verlag Motorpresse, Stuttgart 1997
- David Hodges: Racing cars from AZ after 1945 . 1st edition, Verlag Motorpresse, Stuttgart 1993