Theodore Racing
| Surname | Theodore Racing |
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| Companies | Theodore Racing Ltd. |
| Company headquarters | |
| Team boss | Teddy Yip |
| statistics | |
| First Grand Prix | UK 1977 |
| Last Grand Prix | Europe 1983 |
| Race driven | 53 |
| Constructors' championship | - |
| Drivers World Championship | - |
| Race wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Points | 7th |
Theodore Racing ( Chin . 徳 利 賽車 隊 香港) was a motorsport team that belonged to Hong Kong businessman Teddy Yip . The racing team was involved in Formula 1 as well as in the Aurora and CART series from 1977 to 1984 . In a few years the team designed its own racing cars. At times it was closely associated with the Formula 1 racing teams Shadow and Ensign . Theodore's white painted cars were often provided with unusual Chinese characters and, according to observers, brought a “mysterious Asian flair” to international motorsport. The traditional Macau Grand Prix , whose initiator is Yip, was of particular importance for the team .
Teddy Yip
Theodore Racing team was owned by Teddy Yip, a businessman of Chinese descent with Dutch nationality who was born in Indonesia in 1907. Yip had earned a considerable fortune through various businesses, but above all through the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM) he founded . The STDM temporarily held the monopoly on gambling in the Portuguese colony of Macau ; Yip also had other companies in the leisure and tourism industry. He is considered one of the central figures in the tourist development of Macau. The economic success of his companies enabled Yip to devote his free time to motorsport since the 1950s. Until 1963 he took part as a driver in automobile races, especially the Macau Grand Prix, which he finished third in 1963. Yip then concentrated on running his own racing team, which he regularly competed in Macau until the 1980s. Since the early 1970s, Yip expanded its involvement in international motorsport. From 1974 to 1976 he supported Alan Jones , Brian Redman and Vern Schuppan's Formula 5000 outings . In 1974 Teddy Yip first appeared in Formula 1, three years in the American cart series. In Formula 1, he drove on several tracks. In addition to supporting independent racing teams ( Ensign , Shadow and RAM ), Yip established its own racing team, which at times even constructed its own vehicles. Between the Formula 1 engagements, the racing team took part in the Aurora series , which was held according to Formula 1 rules . At the end of the 80s, Yip slowly ended his motorsport and business involvement and handed over his business empire to his son-in-law.
Theodore Racing in the Formula 1 World Championship
Theodore Racing has been involved in Formula 1 in various forms over the years. Theodore started as a sponsor ( 1974 to 1977 ), developed into a customer team ( 1978 ) and finally became an independent works team that constructed its own Formula 1 cars ( 1981 to 1983 ).
1974 to 1977: Theodore as sponsor
1974: Driver sponsorship
In 1974 Teddy Yip took part in Formula 1 for the first time. At that time, the Theodore Racing team did not yet exist as an organizational unit in Formula 1. Theodore Yip was only a sponsor of Vern Schuppans in 1974, who made his Formula 1 debut in the Ensign works team. The name Theodore did not appear in the entry list this year. Schuppan's commitment to Ensign was planned for seven races. The Australian qualified three times, but only crossed the finish line in his first race - the Belgian Grand Prix .
1976: A works March for Theodore Racing
Two years later the name Theodore Racing appeared for the first time in the Formula 1 World Championship: Yip acquired the right to register the second car of the March factory team driven by Ronnie Peterson for the Grand Prix of the USA West under the name Theodore Racing . Regardless of this name, March organized the race for the Peterson car, which crossed the finish line in 10th place on the Long Beach Grand Prix Circuit .
1977: Half a year with Ensign
For the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1977 , the team appeared Theodore Racing Hong Kong in Formula 1. This term was one Ensign N177 for the French racer Patrick Tambay reported, who made his first attempts here in F1.
In 1977 Theodore Racing did not yet have its own infrastructure. Theodore was only the name sponsor for the second car of the Ensign team, which had previously entered the Formula 1 World Championship with only one vehicle (for Clay Regazzoni ). Yip used a procedure that was not uncommon in the 1970s: In order to take due account of the sponsors of the drivers, different drivers from the same team could be registered under independent, different names. Ensign then organized racing for both Regazzoni and Tambay in the second half of the 1977 season. Regazzoni's car was registered as Team Tissot Ensign with Castrol , while Tambay's car entered the nominal for Theodore Racing Hong Kong .
Both Ensign pilots drove an N177; However, Tambay's car was more competitive than Regazzoni's works car. Teddy Yip provided Tambay with the funds for a powerful Cosworth engine, which was currently being processed, while Regazzoni in the financially troubled Ensign team could only fall back on less stable used engines. Yip also financed Tambay private test drives, which Regazzoni were denied.
The secure financing of his mission paid off for Tambay. In his very first race, the Frenchman in the Theodore-Ensign prevailed over the experienced Regazzoni: While the Ticino failed to qualify, Tambay qualified for 16th place on the grid, ahead of Patrick Depailler in the Tyrrell P34 and Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the turbo-powered one Renault . In the race itself he retired after three laps due to an electrical fault. In the following races, Tambay initially qualified repeatedly before Regazzoni; his best starting position was seventh in the Austrian Grand Prix . Towards the end of the season, however, the Ticino managed to consolidate his performance, so that he then usually started before Tambay. The only non-qualification of the Theodore-Ensign was at the Grand Prix of the USA East .
Tambay already scored his first World Championship point in his second race, the German Grand Prix , when he finished sixth in a Ferrari, just one and a half minutes behind the winner Niki Lauda . Two fifth places in the Netherlands and Canada allowed Tambay to complete the first World Cup with five points. Regazzoni had earned just as many over the course of the entire season.
1978: From factory to customer team
After three years of mere sponsorship in Formula 1, Yip founded his own racing team for the 1978 season, which had its own infrastructure. Theodore Racing was structured as a customer team, initially using an engine and a chassis that he bought from an established manufacturer. It was one of the last teams to follow this concept.
Theodore Racing initially ran a car in 1978 that Yip had taken over from Ralt and was called Theodore TR1 . After the car turned out to be non-competitive, Theodore switched to Walter Wolf cars , which brought no improvement.
The Theodore TR1 was developed by Ralt , a UK design office headed by former Brabham designer Ron Tauranac . Ralt had initially wanted to use the car in Formula 1 himself; when this plan could not be implemented for financial reasons, Tauranac sold the car to Teddy Yip. It was considered a “massive, entirely conventional car” that already looked outdated when it was presented.
Theodore registered the American racing driver Eddie Cheever for the first two races of the season . Cheever did not qualify in Argentina or Brazil . For the third race, Cheever switched to Team Hesketh Racing , whereupon the Finnish debutant Keke Rosberg took his place with Theodore.
In its first outing, the South African Grand Prix , Rosberg qualified the TR1 for 24th place on the grid (ahead of Cheever in the Hesketh). In the race itself, Rosberg only got 15 laps, then a technical component broke. The official statistics record a failure due to a defective clutch , other sources report that the brakes have collapsed. As a result of this mistake, Rosberg and Theodore crashed into a boundary wall. The car was badly damaged. Rosberg was uninjured, but inhaled escaping gasoline fumes and suffered irritation of the airways.
The team competed in the following World Championship races up to the Spanish Grand Prix in an unchanged line-up, but Rosberg regularly failed to qualify or to pre-qualify. The BRDC International Trophy in Silverstone , which was not part of the world championship, was an exception : Rosberg was the first to cross the finish line. It should be the first and only victory of a Theodore in Formula 1. However, this victory is due to special circumstances. On the one hand, some of the competition stayed away from this race; on the other hand, the race was characterized by heavy downpours, due to which the run-off areas muddy. Numerous pilots driving in front of Rosberg like Niki Lauda in Brabham got stuck in the mud. In total, only four drivers crossed the finish line.
After the Spanish Grand Prix, where Rosberg failed to pre-qualify, Teddy Yip gave up the TR1. The team left out the Grand Prix of Sweden , France and Great Britain in order to restructure itself.
Theodore appeared again for the German Grand Prix . The team now reported the Wolf WR3 and, in later races, the Wolf WR4 , each equipped with a Cosworth naturally aspirated engine. They were modifications of the Wolf WR1 developed by Harvey Postlethwaite , with which Jody Scheckter won the team's debut race in 1977 . The WR 3 was used three times in the Wolf works team in 1977 and once in 1978 , the WR 4 had only seen one race (Scheckter at the 1978 Grand Prix of Argentina ).
At the German Grand Prix, Keke Rosberg qualified for 19th place on the grid with the WR3 painted in Theodore colors. He finished the race in tenth place. At the subsequent Austrian Grand Prix he started the race from 25th place on the grid. He also crossed the finish line, but had only completed 47 of 54 laps and was not classified because the distance was too short.
When the Dutch Grand Prix Theodore first appeared with WR4. The car was worse than the WR3. In Zandvoort , Rosberg qualified again for 24th place on the grid, but retired from the race after an accident due to a jammed accelerator cable. The subsequent Italian Grand Prix was the last Formula 1 race in which the team took part this season. Rosberg missed pre-qualification with the WR4.
14 days after the Italian Grand Prix, Theodore Racing reported the Wolf WR3 for the first time for the national British Formula 1 championship, the so-called Aurora AFX series, in which the team remained involved until the end of 1980.
Theodore as a factory team
After a break of two years, Theodore returned to Formula 1 as a designer. The team’s Formula 1 involvement in the early 1980s was organizationally based on the Shadow team that Yip took over in 1980 shortly before its bankruptcy. After two difficult years, he also took over the financially troubled Ensign team, whose infrastructure was the basis for Theodore's participation in the 1983 Formula 1 season . Yip's Formula 1 approaches were ultimately unsuccessful. The takeover of established racing teams that were in economic difficulties was not a concept with which one could persist in the emerging turbo era. Teddy Yip saw this at the end of 1983 and, as he did not want to accept the financial challenges associated with the turbo engines, stopped racing in Formula 1.
1980: Interlude - Theodore-Shadow
1979 and 1980 , the Theodore team did not appear in the Formula 1 World Championship. During this time, Teddy Yip was only represented as a sponsor in the Formula 1 World Championship. Yip once again supported Mo Nunn's Ensign team; he largely financed the development and construction of the Ensign N179 .
In the spring of 1980, Teddy Yip had the opportunity to re-enter Formula 1. The British-American team Shadow , founded in 1971 , which had won a world championship race in the mid-1970s and had a number of smaller successes by 1977, had been in existence since then Loss of the main sponsor and part of the technical staff in economic difficulties and, after the Shadow DN11, which was newly constructed for the 1980 season , had proven to be unsuitable, faced bankruptcy.
In April 1980, Teddy Yip took over the Shadow team. From the Monaco Grand Prix , the racing team was reported as Theodore-Shadow . After the team with the completely new Shadow DN12 financed by Yip could neither qualify here nor at the subsequent races in Spain and France , Yip stopped racing Theodore-Shadow in June 1980.
In the second half of the 1980 season, Yip restructured the Shadow team with a view to a fresh start in the 1981 season. Jo Ramírez was hired as team manager, and former Shadow designer Tony Southgate came back to the team. On the basis of the Shadow team and with the involvement of his own racing team, which is involved in the Aurora series, a new racing team was created in autumn, which was launched under the name Theodore Racing in the 1981 Formula 1 World Championship.
1981: One point in the first race
The newly formed team Theodore Racing first appeared at the Grand Prix of South Africa , a race held in February 1981 that did not have world championship status. Since the new car designed by Southgate was not yet ready for use, the team reported the Theodore TR2 , a barely modified version of last year's Shadow DN12. The driver was Geoff Lees , who had already driven the car for Shadow and Theodore-Shadow the previous year.
With the first world championship run, the Grand Prix of the USA West , the newly designed Theodore TY01 appeared , a conventional naturally aspirated car with wing profiles in the side pods. Theodore only used one vehicle; Patrick Tambay first returned to the team as a driver , who finished sixth in the opening race in Long Beach and earned his team a world championship point. However, there were no other points. In the summer of 1981 Tambay moved to the Équipe Ligier . He was then replaced by the Swiss Marc Surer for the rest of the year . Surer crossed the finish line five times in eight races, but missed the points in each case.
1982: only one finish
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For the 1982 season , Tony Southgate designed a new vehicle, the Theodore TY02 . The TY02 was still a conservative modular car that was technically undemanding, but had more attractive lines than its predecessor. In a season when the popularity of turbo engines increased, Theodore remained a naturally aspirated team using a conventional Cosworth eight-cylinder. A total of two cars were built; the first copy was ready for use from March 1982.
Theodore Racing was dependent on the use of paydrivers in 1982 . Initially, the team signed the Irish Derek Daly . At the first race of the season, the South African Grand Prix , he finished in 14th place. It was Theodore's only finish for the entire season. It was achieved with the previous year's model TY01. The TY02, which was entered from the following race, never saw the finish line: the TY02 drivers missed qualification eight times and dropped out six times due to driving errors or technical defects.
The team suffered from high staff turnover and a high number of accidents throughout the 1982 season. After Derek Daly had contested the first three races of the season for Theodore, he switched to the established Williams team, where he replaced Carlos Reutemann . Daly's successor at Theodore was Jan Lammers , who was entered six times from the Belgian Grand Prix . In his first three appearances for Theodore, Lammers missed the qualification. Before the US East Grand Prix , Lammers was asked to replace Alain Prost on the French Renault team , who had been injured in the previous event. Lammers decided to stay with Theodore. Prost drove for Renault in Detroit despite his injury. Lammers had a serious accident during training in Detroit: His TY02 / 1 crashed into a concrete wall as a result of a driving error and was severely damaged. Lammers broke his wrist in the accident and had to skip the following race.
Instead of the Dutchman, the British Geoff Lees was entered for the Canadian Grand Prix ; For the first time, the emergency vehicle was the second TY02, which had been rebuilt for the North American races. Lees qualified for the penultimate starting position. On race Sunday, Lees was involved in the serious accident at the start in which the Osella driver Riccardo Paletti was killed: Lees, who started a row behind Paletti, drove into the Osella of the Italian, who shortly before had topped Didier Pironis at over 200 km / h struck Ferrari. Lees was uninjured, but his car was seriously damaged. Since the first TY02 was not yet operational again as a result of Lammers' accident, the Theodore team was no longer able to participate in the restart at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Theodore reported again Jan Lammers for the following three races. During this time he was only able to qualify once. In his home race, the Dutch Grand Prix , he was the last to start and retired after 31 laps due to an engine failure. Before the French Grand Prix , Theodore dissolved the contract with Lammers; his successor was the Irishman Tommy Byrne , who made his Formula 1 debut here. Byrne qualified twice in five events but never finished.
1983: Renewed collaboration with Ensign
In parallel with the use of his own racing team, Teddy Yip continued to support Mo Munn's Ensign team financially in 1981 and 1982. At the end of 1981, for example, Yip enabled the racing team to move to larger workshops and financed the construction of several Ensign cars. At the end of the 1982 season, which was just as unsuccessful for Ensign as it was for Theodore, Yip took over the Ensign team and merged it with his own racing team, as he had done with Shadow two years earlier. The new team operated from the former Ensign base and used the infrastructure there, but was registered for the Formula 1 World Championship in the 1983 Formula 1 season under the name Theodore Racing.
The team launched Theodore N183 in 1983 , which Nigel Bennett originally designed for Ensign. Unlike in previous years, Theodore registered a two-car team in 1983. The drivers were the Colombian Roberto Guerrero , who had already started for Ensign the year before, and the former motorcycle world champion Johnny Cecotto from Venezuela, who made his Formula 1 debut here. Cecotto scored a world championship point for Theodore at the Grand Prix of the USA West , but could not achieve any further successes afterwards. During the season he failed four times in the pre-qualification. Guerrero scored no points. After the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch , Theodore withdrew from Formula 1 due to the lack of success.
Theodore Racing in the Aurora F1 series
From 1978 to 1980 Theodore competed in the British Formula 1 Championship , which was named Aurora FX-Series. This was a series of young talents in which mostly young drivers were supposed to learn how to use Grand Prix vehicles on disused Formula 1 vehicles. Most of the races were held on British tracks.
1978
Fourteen days after Theodore's last world championship run in the 1978 Formula 1 season, the team reported for the first time for a race in the Aurora AFX Championship. It was the race at Snetterton, the last race of the season. The Irish driver Dave Kennedy , who drove the Wolf WR3, was registered as the driver . Kennedy was able to achieve an unusual success in this series: In his first race in a Formula 1 car, he overtook a. a. the established Tony Trimmer in the McLaren was ultimately able to win the race by superiority. Kennedy finished twelfth in the Aurora Championship with 22 points, despite having only driven one race.
1979
In the 1979 season, Theodore Racing appeared exclusively in the Aurora series. The team continued with David Kennedy at the start, a Wolf WR6 was reported that had occasionally been used by the Wolf factory team in the Formula 1 World Championship the year before . Kennedy was successful. He took part in 14 of 15 races in the championship and was able to win three races. Furthermore he reached u. a. a second place and five third places. With 63 points, he finished the season in second place behind Rupert Keegan , who had managed 65 for the Charles Clowes Racing team.
1980
In 1980 Desiré Wilson , Kevin Cogan , Geoff Lees and Kim Mather drove for Theodore Racing. Emergency vehicles were the Wolf WR3 and WR4, which now showed some signs of use and were no longer a guarantee of success. Desiré Wilson showed the best performance: she won the Easter race at Brands Hatch. This made her the first and so far only woman to win a Formula 1 race. Desiré Wilson finished the Aurora Championship in 1980 with 21 points from sixth; she was Theodore's best driver. Kevin Cogan and Kim Mather each achieved a podium position.
From the summer of 1980, Theodore Racing turned back exclusively to the Formula 1 World Championship.
Theodore in the CART series
In the first year of his engagement in the US CART series, Theodore focused exclusively on the Indianapolis 500 mile race . In contrast to the Theodore F1 commitment, success soon came up here too.
In 1977 , at Theodore's first outing in Indianapolis, Clay Regazzoni dropped out after 25 laps due to problems with fuel pressure.
In 1978 Theodore did not compete with his own team in Indianapolis, but instead sponsored the winner of the Al Unser race , a good friend of Yips, who also helped him with his Formula 1 involvement.
In 1979 Mike Mosley reached third place in Indianapolis and tenth place in the overall standings in an Eagle built by Dan Gurney and used by Theodore . The following year, Mosley fell in Indianapolis after five rounds and in 1981 reached Vern Schuppan , the Yip already in the Formula 5000 Compatible for Theodore at the wheel of a McLaren again finished third.
In 1982 Theodore competed for the first time the entire season in cooperation with Truesports . Bobby Rahal was hired as a pilot . Although only eleventh place was achieved in Indianapolis, Rahal achieved seven podium finishes and two victories during the season.
In addition, Theodore used an eagle in Indianapolis for the South African Desiré Wilson . However, she was unable to qualify for the race.
Despite the success, the cooperation with was True Sports disbanded at year-end and Theodore sponsored in 1983 the cars of the team Bignotti-Cotter to 1984 , according to Theodore's withdrawal from Formula 1 with its own team and a self-developed car in the CART series return.
However, the in-house development, the Theodore TY 184 , quickly proved to be uncompetitive and was only used sporadically , despite a fourth place for Jim Crawford at the Sainson start in Long Beach . So the pilots, in addition to Crawford, the Italian Bruno Giacomelli was used, denied major successes. At the end of the year, Yip stopped its CART activities and withdrew.
Theodore in Macau
Of particular importance to Teddy Yip was the Macau Grand Prix, a motorsport event that has been held every year since 1954 at the Guia Circuit in Macau in several motorsport classes. It is currently advertised for Formula 3 as well as for touring cars and motorcycles . Yip is considered one of the initiators of this race and was a regular driver in the event until 1963. His first use was planned for 1955 in the touring car class; Yip had to withdraw his report after he badly damaged his Jaguar XK 120 during training.
Since the 1960s, Yip has reported his team Theodore Racing to the Macau Grand Prix, primarily in the Formula 3 class. Theodore Racing was one of the most successful teams in Macau: Between 1975 and 1984 the team won the Formula 3 race on the street circuit six times. In the 1980s, Yip recruited Formula 1 stars to make the race even more attractive. Ayrton Senna , Nelson Piquet , Keke Rosberg, Rick Mears and Patrick Tambay competed for Theodore in Macau.
Numbers and dates
Formula 1 world championship
Statistics in Formula 1
| season | Team name | chassis | engine | tires | Grand Prix | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps | Points | World Cup rank |
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| 1977 | Theodore Racing Hong Kong | Ensign N177 | Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1978 | Theodore Racing Hong Kong |
Theodore TR1 Wolf WR3 Wolf WR4 |
Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1981 | Theodore Racing Team | Theodore TY01 | Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 |
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15th | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 12. |
| 1982 | Theodore Racing Team |
Theodore TY01 Theodore TY02 |
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15th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1983 | Theodore Racing Team | Theodore N183 | Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | 15th | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 12. |
| total | 67 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |||||
All race results in Formula 1
| season | chassis | No. | driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | 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 | |
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| 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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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
CART series
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Theodore's career in the cart series
| season | automobile | driver | run | DNQ | Starts | Victories | T Indy | R Indy | Points | position |
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| 1977 | McLaren Offenhauser TC | Clay Regazzoni | 1 | - | 1 | - | 29 | DNF | - | - |
| Overall result 1977 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1979 | Eagle Ford Cosworth TC | Mike Mosley | 12 | - | 12 | - | 12 | 3 | 1121 | 10. |
| Overall result 1979 | 12 | 12 | 1121 | |||||||
| 1980 | Eagle Chevrolet | Mike Mosley | 3 | - | 3 | - | 26th | DNF | 28 | 42. |
| Overall result 1980 | 3 | 3 | 28 | |||||||
| 1981 | McLaren Ford Cosworth TC | Vern Schuppan | 1 | - | 1 | - | 18th | 3 | - | - |
| Overall result for 1981 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1982 | March 82C Ford Cosworth | Bobby Rahal | 11 | - | 11 | 2 | 17th | 11 | 242 | 2. |
| 1982 | Eagle Ford Cosworth | Desiré Wilson | 1 | 1 | - | - | DNQ | - | - | - |
| Overall result 1982 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 242 | ||||||
| 1984 | Theodore TY184 Ford Cosworth | Jim Crawford | 4th | 1 | 3 | - | DNQ | - | 12 | 27. |
| 1984 | Theodore TY184 Ford Cosworth | Bruno Giacomelli | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | DNQ | - | - | - |
| Overall result 1984 | 7th | 3 | 4th | 12 | ||||||
| total | 36 | 4th | 32 | 2 | 1403 |
T Indy = Training Indianapolis, R Indy = Race Indianapolis, DNQ = Non-qualification
The scoring system changed several times between 1977 and 1984. In 1981 and 1982, the Indianapolis race results were not considered with points.
literature
- David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. 1st edition, Stuttgart 1993
- Heinz Prüller: "Bang and Fall: Big ideas burst like soap bubbles - the flops of Formula 1", in: auto motor und sport 6/1987.
- Graton, Jean : Michel Vaillant - Rendez-vous à Macao, Graton Editeur, Paris 1983 (German edition: Race for Billions, Ehapa , Stuttgart 1984)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The team registered for a total of 67 Grand Prix, but was only able to qualify for 53 races.
- ↑ Cf. Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 599.
- ↑ Some sources refer to him as a billionaire, e.g. B. Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 238, others speak of "a great fortune", e.g. B. the team biography on the website www.grandprix.com .
- ↑ Teddy Yips biography in the Macau Grand Prix Gazette , Vol. 1 Issue 1 2003.
- ^ Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 238.
- ↑ This sort of thing had already been practiced at March and other racing teams.
- ↑ Team biography on the website www.grandprix.com .
- ^ Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 239.
- ↑ Customer teams were an integral part of Formula 1 in the first two and a half decades and were even the norm in the beginning. At the beginning of the 1960s, the number of teams that manufacture their cars themselves (so-called works teams) increased steadily, and the private customer teams lost their importance: while in 1962 five private racing teams competed in each Formula 1 world championship run, ten years later it was only one with Frank Williams Racing Cars , the forerunner of the current Williams team. In the mid-1970s, customer teams usually only competed in individual races each year. The last customer team to contest every race of a season was Team Rebaque (1978).
- ^ Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 599.
- ^ Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars 1906-2001, p. 223.
- ↑ "The car was almost a decade behind its time". Heinz Prüller in: Auto Motor und Sport, issue 6/1987, p. 288.
- ↑ Auto Motor und Sport, issue 6/1987, p. 288.
- ^ Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, pp. 238 ff. (Description of Theodore activities in the section on Ensign Racing).
- ^ Hodges: Racing Cars from AZ after 1945, p. 89
- ↑ Some Shadow engineers founded the rival team Arrows in early 1978 with the support of the former Shadow sponsor.
- ↑ Hodges: Racing Cars from AZ after 1945, p. 245.
- ↑ Team biography on the website www.grandprix.com .
- ^ Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars 1906-2001, S: 224.
- ^ Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 599.
- ^ Hodges: Racing Cars from AZ after 1945, p. 87.
- ^ Hodges: AZ of Grand Prix Cars 1906-2001, p. 81.
- ↑ The five world championship points achieved by Patrick Tambay are counted for Ensign Racing, the designer of the vehicle used.
- ↑ The team registered for a total of 67 Grand Prix, but was only able to qualify for 53 races.