Maki F102A
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 Maki engineering
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| Predecessor: | Maki F101 | ||||||||
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| Chassis: | aluminum | ||||||||
| Weight: | 530 kg | ||||||||
| Tires: | Goodyear | ||||||||
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| Driver: |
 Tony Trimmer
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| First start: | 1976 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1976 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| World Cup points: | - | ||||||||
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| Leadership laps: | - | ||||||||
The Maki F102A was the second Formula 1 racing car from the Japanese Maki Engineering team . The car was registered for a Formula 1 World Championship race in 1976 and failed to qualify there.
background
The company Maki Engineering, founded in 1973, was an "amateur project" by the Japanese engineers Kenji Mimura and Masao Ono. When they built their first Formula 1 racing car in 1973 with the Maki F101, neither of them had any motorsport experience. The overweight F101, which was registered for individual races in 1974 and 1975 , was considered to be amateurishly constructed and potentially dangerous. Howden Ganley , Hiroshi Fushida and Tony Trimmer , who fielded the car one after the other, failed to qualify in each of the seven attempts. After the end of the 1975 season, Masao Ono left the team to construct a racing car for the rival Kojima team . Despite this, Mimura continued to pursue the goal of at least starting the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix with his own car. The Maki F102A was created for this race. After the car had proven to be just as unsuccessful in Japan as its predecessor, Maki stopped racing.
construction
While the F101 was developed by Maki engineers, the F102A was developed by an external company. Mimura hired KC Engineering , a design office founded by former Maki mechanics, to design the new car.
The technical design of the F102A was similar to that of its predecessor. The car again had an aluminum monocoque . An eight-cylinder Cosworth engine (type DFV) served as the drive . The body was redesigned. It was perceived as "less massive", but "very angled". The F102A had no side pods. The coolers were parallel to the chassis. The weight of the car was given as 530 kg. Maki purchased the tires from Goodyear .
According to his driver Tony Trimmer, the F102A was poorly designed and assembled. The entire front section was only attached to the monocoque with a single retaining clip. Overall, the F102 was "even worse than its predecessor"; the team bosses of other racing teams had advised him not to drive the F102A for safety reasons.
Racing use
Maki Engineering registered the F102A for the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix, which was held on October 24th of that year at Fuji Speedway . Tony Trimmer, who had not contested a Formula 1 race since his last race with Maki in the early autumn of 1975, was hired again as driver. For Trimmer, working at Maki was a chance to show himself again in Formula 1. The team received financial support from the Japanese conglomerate Fujita ; the car was painted black with yellow accent stripes.
In the free Friday practice session, a gearbox defect occurred after just one lap. In the qualifying training that followed, Trimmer only covered one timed lap. His lap time was over a minute and a half. He was 18 seconds slower than polesitter Mario Andretti ( Team Lotus ) and 13.5 seconds slower than Hans Binder , who finished 26th and last on the grid in the technically inferior Williams FW05 . Trimmer was not qualified in Maki.
The US team Shadow offered Trimmer a short-term assignment in a factory Shadow after missing qualification; Maki did not release Trimmer from his contract.
Race results in Formula 1
| driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | Points | rank |
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| Legend | ||
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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
- 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
- Doug Nye: The Big Book of Formula 1 Racing Cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Publishing house Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X .
Web links
- History of Maki Engineering on the website www.f1rejects.com
- Race statistics from Maki Engineering on the website www.racingsportscars.com
- Image: Tony Trimmer in the Maki F102 1976
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e history of Maki Engineering on the website www.f1rejects.com (accessed on May 15, 2014).
- ↑ a b David Hodges: Rennwagen from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 158.
- ^ A b David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 , p. 143.