Jordan 192
 Jordan 192 |
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 Jordan Grand Prix
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| Designer: | Gary Anderson | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | Jordan 191 | ||||||||
| Successor: | Jordan 193 | ||||||||
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| Engine: | Yamaha OX99 V12 | ||||||||
| Wheelbase: | 2925 mm | ||||||||
| Weight: | 505 kg | ||||||||
| Tires: | Goodyear | ||||||||
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| Driver: | 32. Stefano Modena 33. Maurício Gugelmin 
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| First start: | 1992 South African Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1992 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| World Cup points: | 1 | ||||||||
| Podiums: | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps: | - | ||||||||
The Jordan 192 was a Formula 1 racing car for the British motorsport team Jordan Grand Prix , which was used in 16 world championship races in the 1992 season . The car suffered from technical unreliability. It only scored one world championship point.
background
Eddie Jordan Racing was founded in 1980 by Irish bank clerk and amateur racing driver Eddie Jordan . The team initially took part in the British Formula 3 Championship and from 1988 onwards in the Formula 3000 . The Jordan team won several races in its first year, and in 1989 Jordan's top driver Jean Alesi , who was making his Formula 1 debut with Tyrrell at the same time , became Formula 3000 champion. From 1990, Jordan was involved in advancing to Formula 1 which was realized in 1991 . With the compact Jordan 191 designed by Gary Anderson , the team became the best newcomer in recent years: it achieved 13 world championship points and finished fifth in the constructors' championship at the end of the season. The first Formula 1 year was a heavy burden on the team financially. To reduce costs, Jordan took over large, heavy twelve-cylinder engines from Yamaha for the 1992 season instead of the eight-cylinder engines from Cosworth used in the debut year , which were made available to the team free of charge. Jordan went from being a customer to a factory supported team.
The collaboration between Jordan and Yamaha was initially planned for four years. After the unsuccessful course of the 1992 season, it ended prematurely. In the years that followed, Jordan exclusively used Hart motors , the development and construction of which Sasol financed. Yamaha joined forces with Tyrrell for four years from 1993 and used engines under their own name that were actually built by Judd .
technology
Design features
The designer of the Jordan 192 was Gary Anderson.
The Jordan 192 was not a completely new design. Rather, it was considered a mere further development of the 191. It was longer than its predecessor to accommodate the larger space requirements of the Yamaha engine. The cooling holes were enlarged as the engine developed higher temperatures than the Cosworth eight-cylinder used last year. The front suspension was revised, the suspension of the rear wheels corresponded to that of the 191.
The most important innovation of the 192 was the engine. It was a twelve-cylinder V-type OX99 engine. It had been newly developed for the 1991 season. That year the Brabham team used it exclusively in the BT60Y and scored three world championship points in the process. The engine was only revised in detail for use at Jordan. The bank angle of the OX99 was 70 degrees. It had four overhead camshafts that were driven by gears. In addition to the twelve-cylinder Scuderia Ferrari (type 037), the OX99 was the only engine of the 1992 season with five valves per cylinder. The fuel injection and the ignition system came from Bosch . The engine output was estimated by observers at 650 hp. This put the OX99 just 5 hp above the Ford HB engine used by Jordan the year before and 50 hp below the most powerful engines from Ferrari and Honda ( McLaren ). The maximum speed was 13,200 revolutions per minute. There is no information on the weight of the engine.
The engine power was transmitted to the rear wheels via a sequentially shifted seven-speed gearbox. At its core, it was a proprietary design by Jordan that used components from X-Trac and was modified by Hewland over the course of the season .
The total weight of the car including the engine was 505 kg.
Deficits
The car suffered multiple overheating problems over the course of the season, which caused repeated failures. Jordan initially responded by installing larger coolers, which impaired aerodynamics. It was not until late summer 1992 that Gary Anderson realized that the cooling water pump had been designed incorrectly. According to Gary Anderson, the tall and heavy engine did not harmonize with the chassis: The OX99 has "a very sharp performance curve": The 192 was fast in corners; on the subsequent straights, however, he was unable to build up further performance quickly enough.
production
Five of the 192 were made during the year. They were installed in Jordan's new facility in Silverstone .
Sponsors
In contrast to the 191, which was painted in the basic shade green, the 192 appeared in the colors white and red as well as light and dark blue. The main sponsors were the South African oil company Sasol and the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , which advertised the Barclay cigarette brand. Also Philips supported the team.
driver
Unlike in his debut year, when Jordan fielded a total of five drivers, only two drivers competed for the team in 1992. Eddie Jordan signed the Italian Stefano Modena , who had driven for Tyrrell the previous year, and the former March driver Maurício Gugelmin . You contested all races for Jordan in 1992.
Races
Compared to their debut year, the racing results achieved by the Sasol Jordan Yamaha Team in its sophomore year were a disappointment. Observers rated the course of the 1992 season as a "disaster". Modena missed qualification in the opening race in South Africa ; the same applied to the races in Spain, Germany and Italy. Failure to qualify in Italy meant Modena was banned from his home race for the third time in five years (in 1988 he was slower in the EuroBrun ER188 than Brit Julian Bailey in the Tyrrell, and in 1989 he scored a time for Brabham that made him sixteenth However, he did not follow the request to weigh in and was disqualified according to the rules of the time). According to Gary Anderson, the non-qualifications were demotivating for Modena: “Due to his temper, Modena was unable to mentally overcome the problems. They built up and increasingly worsened his motivation. ”Modena only crossed the finish line four times, the first time at the Belgian Grand Prix in early September . With his sixth place in the last race of the season , he scored the only world championship point for Jordan that year. Gugelmin qualified for every race. He failed eleven times for technical reasons. His best result was seventh place in the San Marino Grand Prix .
literature
- Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9
- Alan Henry: Autocourse 1992/93 London 1992 (Hazleton Securities Ltd.), ISBN 0-905138-96-1 .
- 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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945 , Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 123 f.
- ↑ a b c d e Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , p. 441.
- ^ David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 , p. 115.
- ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , motor book publisher Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , S: 443rd
- ↑ a b c d e Alan Henry: Autocourse 1992/93 London 1992 (Hazleton Securities Ltd.), ISBN 0-905138-96-1 , p. 86.
Racing car from the 1992 Formula 1 World Championship
