The Arrows A11 was a
Formula One
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car with which the
Arrows team competed in the and Formula One seasons, and at the start of the season (badged as a
Footwork).
Overview
1989
Designed by
Ross Brawn, the A11 was the first Arrows car following the ban on
turbocharged
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engines at the end of , being fitted with a
normally-aspirated 3.5-litre
Ford Cosworth DFR V8 engine
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Origins
The first known V8 was the Antoinette, designed by Léon Levavasseur, a ...
. It was raced to reasonably good effect by
Derek Warwick and
Eddie Cheever in 1989, Warwick finishing in the top six on five occasions and briefly challenging for victory in the
Canadian Grand Prix, and Cheever finishing third in the
United States Grand Prix, held in his home town of
Phoenix, Arizona
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. With 13 points, Arrows placed seventh in the Constructors' Championship.
1990
For 1990, the car received minor suspension upgrades and became the A11B, while Italian drivers
Michele Alboreto and
Alex Caffi replaced Warwick and Cheever. 1990 turned out to be far less successful than 1989, however, as the car failed to qualify seven times, and finished in the top six only once, when Caffi took fifth at an attritional race in
Monaco
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. Caffi was also forced to sit out the
United States
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and
Spanish races through injury, Germany's
Bernd Schneider deputising on both occasions. The two points from Monaco gave Arrows ninth in the Constructors' Championship.
1991
By the start of 1991, the team had been taken over by the Japanese Footwork concern and renamed accordingly, and had also secured a deal to run
Porsche
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V12 engine
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s, replacing the Fords. However, the team's car for that season, the
FA12, had to be redesigned when it was discovered that the large Porsche engine, the
3512, could not fit into it. The team therefore modified the A11B into the A11C to accommodate this engine, and used it in the first two races, as well as at
San Marino
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after Alboreto destroyed his redesigned FA12 during practice.
From these five attempts, the ageing car qualified only once (Alboreto in the
United States
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), before being finally retired.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
(
key)
References
{{F1 cars 1991
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