LBT Team March
| Surname | LBT Team March |
|---|---|
| Companies | LBT Team March |
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| First Grand Prix | Belgium 1982 |
| Last Grand Prix | Netherlands 1982 |
| Race driven | 1 (0 starts) |
| Constructors' championship | 0 |
| Drivers World Championship | 0 |
| Race wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Points | 0 |
The Spanish racing driver Emilio de Villota reported a March 821 for five races in the 1982 Formula 1 season under the name LBT Team March . Unlike most other Formula 1 teams , de Villota's project did not have its own infrastructure. Rather, de Villota based his commitment on two existing motorsport teams. LBT Team March is sometimes seen as the last private Formula 1 team.
background
Emilio de Villota was a Spanish banker who raced cars in his spare time in the 1970s. Some observers described de Villota as the "last gentleman driver". In 1976 he made his debut in Formula 1. The British customer team RAM Racing registered him for his home race, the Spanish Grand Prix . Here he failed to qualify. From the following season , de Villota competed as a private driver with his own racing team, which was named after its main sponsor Iberia Airlines . De Villota reported his McLaren M23 to seven world championship races, but could only qualify twice. In 1978 he entered the same car for the Spanish Grand Prix . He again failed to qualify. De Villota then switched to the Aurora AFX Formula 1 series , a purely British racing series in which competed for RAM Racing. In 1980 he won the championship in a Williams FW07 (chassis FW07 / 1) from the RAM team.
Based on this success, de Villota registered the Williams FW07 / 1 for the Spanish Grand Prix in 1981 . The report was not made in cooperation with RAM Racing, but as a purely private team. De Villota's report was not accepted: According to the Concorde Agreement that came into force two months earlier , all teams involved in Formula 1 were obliged to compete in racing cars they had designed themselves. Unlike in the 1970s, private drivers and customer teams using cars from other manufacturers were no longer permitted.
In the following year, de Villota tried again to participate in Formula 1 races. A cockpit in a works team was out of reach for him. De Villota then developed a network of relationships with which the general exclusion of private drivers should be avoided. De Villota was under contract for 1982 with Onyx Racing , a British racing team that was involved in Formula 2 as a quasi-works team from March Engineering . Onyx did not have its own Formula 1 car, so the team itself could not compete in Formula 1. Onyx shifted the message to RAM Racing instead. The RAM team was involved in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1982 under the name March Grand Prix and used vehicles of the March 821 type, which were considered to be RAM's own designs. Due to an agreement with Onyx, RAM reported a third March 821 for Emilio de Villota for some races alongside his regular drivers Jochen Mass and Raul Boesel . De Villota's report was made under the name LBT Team March , which was slightly different from the works team and referred to his personal sponsor LBT, a Canarian financial institution. In fact, the races on March 3rd were not organized by RAM. Instead, de Villota's car was prepared and looked after by Onyx Racing. In fact, the LBT Team March was a deployment of the Onyx team, which took place under the announcement of the competitor RAM Racing. The organizers recognized de Villota's report in this form.
De Villota was the last driver to start a Formula 1 world championship race without a contractual relationship with a works team.
Races
The LBT Team March debuted at the Belgian Grand Prix in May 1982 . As in all subsequent attempts, the race car was the March 821 RM07, a chassis that Raul Boesel had used at RAM at the start of the season. On the Zolder circuit , de Villota and Osella driver Riccardo Paletti failed in the prequalification.
The same applied to the subsequent race in Monaco : Here de Villota achieved a lap time of 1: 52.401 minutes. He was 21 seconds slower than the penultimate of the pre-qualification ( Chico Serra in Fittipaldi ). De Villota was almost 25 seconds short of the final qualifiers and was almost half a minute behind pole sitter René Arnoux ( Renault F1 ). De Villota's speed was 106 km / h; René Arnoux had reached a speed of 143 km / h.
De Villota's deficit was smaller on the Detroit street circuit: Here he only missed qualifying by 0.7 seconds; he was nine seconds behind pole sitter Alain Prost . De Villota was not the slowest driver here: Nelson Piquet , who raced the new, largely untested Brabham BT50 with a BMW turbo engine in Detroit , achieved a lap time that was 1.2 seconds longer than de Villota's. In Canada , de Villota was two seconds slower than the last qualifier and in the Netherlands he was last in qualifying.
After this race, de Villota gave up Formula 1 involvement. Mike Earle, the boss of Onyx Racing, was of the opinion in retrospect that de Villota could have won a regional Formula 1 championship with the Aurora series in 1980. “But his talent was not enough to establish himself with a mediocre car in the Formula 1 World Championship.” De Villota should have invested his money and talent better in sports car races. The March 821 went back to RAM Racing; it was mainly driven by Raul Boesel in the other races of the season.
Race results
| driver | Start number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | Points | rank |
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| 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 |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
literature
- Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing . 1st edition. 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 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7
- Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 .
- Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 , p. 143.
- ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , ISBN 3-613-01848-9 , S. 309th
- ↑ Statistics on the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on April 25, 2014).