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Brabham Brabham () is the common name for Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Brabham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, the team won fo ...

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship ...

Loris Kessel Loris Kessel (1 April 1950 – 15 May 2010) was a racing driver from Switzerland. Biography He was born in Lugano and died in Montagnola following a long illness. He participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on ...

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Boy Hayje Johan Gerard "Boy" Hayje (born 3 May 1949, Amsterdam) is a former racing driver from the Netherlands. He participated in seven Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 29 August 1976. He scored no championship points. After time spent racing saloo ...

drove a RAM-entered

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with little success, and a second "rent-a-car" did no better later in the year when driven by Andy Sutcliffe, Mikko Kozarowitzky or Michael Bleekemolen. However, they had some success running

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in the Shellsport Group 8 Championship in

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, finishing 2nd overall. For 1978 the team switched to the British

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series, with Edwards placing 4th overall that year in a March, and 5th overall the following season in a Fittipaldi F5A. For 1980, RAM made an investment in a pair of 1979-spec Williams FW07s, with Emilio de Villota winning the title. Sponsorship included American men's magazine '' Penthouse''. They then entered one of these cars for

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in the

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. Kevin Cogan and Geoff Lees would guest in another car in the last two rounds, but their best finish was Keegan's 9th place at the

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. 1981 saw RAM manage and run the returning

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Grand Prix team, with Derek Daly and

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driving. However, non-qualifications were frequent, and the team failed to score any points, Daly's 7th place at the

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being their best result. The combination stayed together for 1982, landing backing from Rothmans, and the new

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821 saw design work from a young

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. With veteran

Jochen Mass Jochen Richard Mass (born 30 September 1946) is a German former racing driver. Life and career Born in Dorfen, Bavaria 50 km (31 mi) from Munich, Mass participated in 114 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 Ju ...

to lead the team, backed up by Raul Boesel, hopes were high, but it was another disappointing year. Mass took 7th place at the Detroit Grand Prix, but as the car proved to be slow he lost motivation, and focused more on sports car racing with Porsche. From the

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, Keegan took over the car, but RAM

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once again failed to score points. RAM 01

1983 saw the RAM name make itself onto the chassis for the first time, with Dave Kelly's RAM

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01 design. Salazar returned to drive the main entry, while a second car for

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was fielded at the

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as a one-off. Salazar scored a 15th place in the season opener, but the bulky car struggled to qualify. Financial reasons saw the team skip the Detroit Grand Prix, while they only made the

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due to fielding local driver Jacques Villeneuve, Sr. and attracting some Canadian sponsorship.

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then took over for the rest of the season, only qualifying once, at the season-closing South African Grand Prix, where he took the team's best result of the year, 12th and last. Astonishingly, the team pressed on into 1984. The partnership with

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was dissolved, and RAM attracted sponsorship from

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. Two RAM 02 cars, with Hart turbo engines, were entered for

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champion

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and

Philippe Alliot Philippe Alliot (born 27 July 1954) is a former racing driver who participated in Formula One from to and from to . He raced for RAM, Ligier, Larrousse and McLaren. Early career Prior to his career in Formula One he competed during 1976 and ...

. Kelly's new design was disappointing, and the cars were frequent back-markers, and Palmer's 8th place in the opening

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was their best result of the year (and of all time). Indeed, the team drew more notices for the crashes their drivers were involved in. WinkelhockM1985

Alliot remained for 1985, with

Manfred Winkelhock Manfred Winkelhock (6 October 1951 – 12 August 1985) was a German racing driver. He participated in 56 Formula One Grands Prix (with 47 starts) between 1980 and 1985, driving for Arrows, ATS, Brabham and RAM Racing, with a best finish of fif ...

entered in the second car, and a new RAM 03 designed by

Gustav Brunner Gustav Brunner (born 12 September 1950, in Graz) is an Austrian Formula One (F1) designer and engineer. He started his career in racing car design at the German-based constructor McNamara. He first entered F1 in a brief spell working for the ATS ...

. Winkelhock put in some improved qualifying performances, but actual results were still thin. Winkelhock's death in a sports car event in Canada in the summer was a blow to the team, and Acheson was recalled briefly, before the team slimmed down to a single entry. They missed the final two rounds altogether. Skoal withdrew their backing at the end of the year, the team's best result having been Alliot's 9th place, again at the opening

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. The team planned to enter a single updated RAM 03 for

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(who had stood in for Palmer at the 1984 Canadian Grand Prix) for the season, but the funds could not be found, and the team folded over the winter of 1985. The team would have raced as car #9 for 1986 otherwise, per the FIA entry list.

Complete Formula One results

;Notes * – Not entered as a Constructor.

References

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