Shell Arnold
| Surname |
Shell Arnold Écurie Arnold Shell Meubles Arnold |
|---|---|
| Companies | |
| Company headquarters | Phalsbourg |
| Team boss | Marcel Arnold |
| statistics | |
| First Grand Prix | Italy 1971 |
| Last Grand Prix | Italy 1971 |
| Race driven | 1 |
| Constructors' championship | 0 |
| Drivers World Championship | 0 |
| Race wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Points | 0 |
Shell Arnold (also: Écurie Arnold or Shell Meubles Arnold ) was a French motorsport team that participated in the Formula 2 championship from 1971 to 1973 and took part in two Formula 1 races in 1971 .
history
The founder of the racing team was the entrepreneur Marcel Arnold, who ran a furniture manufacturing company in Phalsbourg, Lorraine . Arnold, together with the French branch of the mineral oil company Shell, has been supporting several national racing drivers in smaller motorsport classes since the mid-1960s. In 1969 the mere sponsorship became an independent team: Arnold bought a van and two racing cars. In 1969 he made it possible for Jean-Pierre Jaussaud to take part in the French Formula 3 championship with a Tecno racing car ; and José Dolhem , Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Jean-Pierre Jarier were supported by Arnold. At the end of 1970 Arnold gave up most of his equipment, but continued to finance the motorsport activities of Dolhem, Jaussaud and Jarier until 1973.
Races
Formula 2
The first mention of Écurie Arnold in a Formula 2 race took place in 1969 . Arnold registered a Tecno 68 for Jean-Pierre Jarier for the Grand Prix de Pau , but ultimately did not compete. There were no further reports from the team in 1969 or 1970 .
1971
It was not until the Formula 2 European Championship in 1971 that the racing team, now known as Shell Meubles Arnold , regularly took part in races . The team had leased two March 712 chassis powered by Cosworth FVA engines that Hart Racing Engines was preparing. The drivers were Jean-Pierre Jarier and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud. The team reached six finishings during the season. The best result was Jaussaud's third place at the Grand Prix de Pau, which was not part of the championship. The most successful championship race was the Greater London Trophy at the Crystal Palace Circuit , which Jaussaud finished in fourth. At the end of the season Jarier was eighth with ten points and Jaussaud was ninth with nine points.
1972
From the fourth race of the 1972 season , the team appeared again in the Formula 2 championship. Shell Arnold now used a March 722 vehicle powered by a Ford BDE engine. Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who was a regular driver in the BRM Formula 1 team this season, was reported in Pau . He had to give up prematurely after an accident. The other races of the season were mostly played by José Dolhem, who crossed the finish line four times in ten starts. His best result was eighth place at the Grand Prix de Rouen-les-Essarts . A week later, the Lotteria di Monza , a Formula 2 race that was not part of the championship, took place at the Italian Autodromo Nazionale Monza . At this event, Jean-Pierre Jarier competed for Meubles Arnold in March 722. He finished third behind Graham Hill and Silvio Moser . Dolhem finished 27th in the year-end ranking with two championship points.
1973
In 1973 , the Arnold team joined forces with the French racing car manufacturer Pygmée . The Annecy- based company has been producing monoposti for formulas 3 and 2 since 1965, which were primarily driven by Patrick Dal Bo , the son of the owner Marius Dal Bo. For the 1973 season, Pygmée constructed the MDB18, a Formula 2 vehicle that was powered by a Ford BDA engine. Meubles Arnold registered two MDB18s for seven races in the 1973 Formula 2 championship; Patrick Dal Bo and François Migault were registered as drivers . Using Pygmée's Formula 2 cars was unsuccessful for the team. There was only one finish: Migault finished the race in Rouen-les-Essarts . In all other attempts, the drivers either failed to qualify or they retired from the races prematurely. That was the last time a Pygmée was used in Formula 2.
At the eleventh championship run of the year, the Mantorp Grand Prix in the Swedish Mantorp Park , the Meubles Arnold team appeared in a new composition. The team reported a Chevron B25 for the Northern Irish racing driver John Watson , who had contested his first Formula 1 race for Brabham two weeks earlier . Watson finished third behind Jean-Pierre Jarier, who drove a works March 722, and Jochen Mass in Surtees . The Mantorp Grand Prix was Watson's only Formula 2 race of the year. With the four points achieved here, he finished 20th in the year-end ranking. The other drivers in the Arnold team were not classified.
After this race, Arnold ended his motorsport sponsorship. Marcel Arnold's name no longer appeared on the entry lists for formula races.
formula 1
1971 joined Shell Arnold to two of Formula 1 racing. The driver was Jean-Pierre Jarier, who, with Marcel Arnold's support, had rented a March 701 . It was the 701/9 chassis, which Hubert Hahne had reported unsuccessfully for a Formula 1 world championship race the year before .
Jarier and the March 701/9 first appeared at the end of August 1971 at the International Gold Cup in Oulton Park , UK , which was held outside of the Formula 1 World Championship and was Jarier's first Formula 1 race. The name under which the report was made is unclear. Some sources cite Goodwin Racing Services , others Hubert Hahne . Jarier did not receive any technical assistance from March for this race. In qualifying, he achieved a lap time of 2:14 minutes with the poorly prepared car. He was 48 seconds slower than Peter Gethin in the factory - BRM P160 , who took pole position . Jarier was the last to start. He crossed the finish line in both races, but had only completed 16 and 18 of 20 laps each.
At the Italian Grand Prix held two weeks later in Monza , Jarier made his debut with the 701/9 in the Formula 1 World Championship. The car was registered by the Shell Arnold team; However, there were also stickers from Hubert Hahne Racing on the car . Jarier qualified for last place on the grid in Monza; his gap to Chris Amon's pole time in the Matra MS120B was 5.7 seconds. In the race, Jarier covered 47 of 55 laps. He crossed the finish line in twelfth place, but was not classified because he was too late.
Jarier contested the Formula 2 championship for the March factory team in 1972, and in 1973 he was promoted to the March Formula 1 team.
Formula 1 race results
| driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | Points | rank |
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| Automobile World Championship 1971 |
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J.-P. Jarier
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26th | NC |
| 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 | |
Individual evidence
- ^ Transporters and vehicles of the Meubles Arnold team (1970) (accessed April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Image: Jean-Pierre Jarier (right) and Jean-Pierre Beltoise (left) next to Marcel Arnold ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Accessed April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Overview of the races of the European Formula 2 Championship 1971 on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Overview of the history of Automobiles Pygmée on the website www.f3history.co.uk (accessed April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Description of March 701/9 on the website www.ultimatecarpage.com (accessed on April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Statistics of the International Gold Cup 1971 on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Statistics of the International Gold Cup on the website www.racingsportscars.com (accessed on April 28, 2013).
- ↑ Statistics of the International Gold Cup on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on April 28, 2013).
- ^ Illustration of March 701/9 at the 1971 Italian Grand Prix (accessed on April 28, 2013).
