If my memory serves me well I believe McLaren did something similar in the late 70s when they ran Villeneuve but I thought he was under a 'separate' team..
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Yes it was possible up to I think 1981 when rules regarding all teams to be two cars were introduced, in the same way as single car teams were accepted.Picci wrote: ↑3 months agoHi, I was going through some historical results when I realised that actually Ferrari ran three cars on Lauda's return: Regazzoni, Lauda and Reutemann. Could anyone explain to me how this was possible? Was it still allowed to run more than two cars during that time? How were the Constructors' points calculated back then? Did running three cars affect it? I think this must also be the last ever time Ferrari has run three cars in a race?
If my memory serves me well I believe McLaren did something similar in the late 70s when they ran Villeneuve but I thought he was under a 'separate' team..
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At the 1988 Australian GP, there were 5 single entries.....Picci wrote: ↑3 months agoInteresting info, many thanks! Fascinating to think that the structure for fielding two car entries wasn't formalised that long ago. And do you know which team was the last to field out only one official car for the entire season? Was it Minardi in 1985 or were there more recent examples?
Wasn't Villota a private entry (and also F1's last private entrant)? He was sponsored by a Spanish bank, IIRC.Vassago wrote: ↑3 months agoI believe the two-car entries were only made mandatory in the early 90s since in 1991 we still had one-car teams (Fondmetal, Coloni).
Emilio de Villota was the last third-car entry who appeared in multiple GPs (March in 1982) then we had one-offs at the end of the season for test drivers (Jonathan Palmer/Williams/Brands Hatch 1983) and Philippe Streiff (Renault/Estoril 1984). The last official third car entry is Francois Hesnault for Renault in 1985 which carried the FOM-approved onboard camera at the Nurburgring (but the entry was ineligible for constuctors points).
Yeah, De Villota was a banker by profession, but he was sponsored in a privately entered Williams sponsored by Banco Occidental at the Spanish GP in 1982. He got knocked back because the car 'was not of his teams own construction'. I think his whole career was pretty much as a private entrant. Even his Iberian Airways McLaren was privately owned and entered. (He was from the Iberian Penisular in Spain)
That must have cost him a f*** load of money back then. I am sure being a privateer wasn't cheap in the 1970s either, but this was right at the end of the period where you could build your own Grand Prix car, or buy last year's and race it in a national F1/Libre championship.Everso Biggyballies wrote: ↑3 months agoYeah, De Villota was a banker by profession, but he was sponsored in a privately entered Williams sponsored by Banco Occidental at the Spanish GP in 1982. He got knocked back because the car 'was not of his teams own construction'. I think his whole career was pretty much as a private entrant. Even his Iberian Airways McLaren was privately owned and entered. (He was from the Iberian Penisular in Spain)
My memory seems to recall that yes Enzo had written Niki off as a returnee, contracted Reuteman as you said, but Niki's inclusion was from a pissed off Niki saying I have a contract to race a car provided by Ferrari and Enzo giving in to Nikis demands.uechtel wrote: ↑3 months ago
Back to Ferrari in 1976, indeed after Lauda´s accident I think the story was that they had already contracted Reutemann as replacement, so when Niki came back much earlier than expected (or maybe rather completely unexpected...) the pragmatic solution for the home race was to field three cars.