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     The GP was the Fench GP 89 in Paul Ricard. Car #27 is the
Ferrari of Nigel Mansell and the car up in the air is #15, the
March-Judd of Mauricio Gugelmin. Gugelmin took the second start in the
spare car and set his only fastest lap of his GP career in this GP.

       Jan
"Wait for me, I wont be long", Gilles Villeneuve

John L. Pereira asked:

The Barnard designed Ferrari 640 was driven by Mansell and the Leyton House
March (yep, the one with BP sponsorship) was piloted by Maurico Gugelmine
(sp?), now a CART driver.
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Edwin Solheim, Norway

Life begins at 7.000 r.p.m

Can anyone tell me what the upside-down car is and who the drivers involve
are? That is, what car had British Petroleum as a sponsor? Also appreciated
is the race and year in which it occurred.

Please send me the answers via email.

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| Can anyone tell me what the upside-down car is and who the drivers
| involve are? That is, what car had British Petroleum as a sponsor?
| Also appreciated is the race and year in which it occurred.

  The drivers was Nigel Mansell (in Ferrari) and  Mauricio  Gugelmin
  (in March).

KMJ

| Can anyone tell me what the upside-down car is and who the drivers
| involve are? That is, what car had British Petroleum as a sponsor?
| Also appreciated is the race and year in which it occurred.

  That's right.

JM

Re the 1990 French Grand Prix, if I remember correctly for a long time it
looked like a Leyton House 1-2. I can't remember how Gugelmin went out;
Capelli was caught by Prost very near the end.

Funny to think that in 1990 Capelli was definitely one of the coming men.
Unfortunely it was Ferrari he arrived at and he went again very quickly.

Simon

The race prior to that, Canada, Gugelmin failed to qualify, and
Capelli was 24th and qualified, ran steadily and finished 10th (ahead
of Nakajima's Tyrrell, Suzuki's Lola-Lambo and Grouillard's Osella).
This was the teams best result up to that point.

At the French GP they ran very well, in what was described by
Autosport as "the greatest comeback since Lazarus". The improvement
was described by Simon Keeble (the team manager) as being down to
"[The] work Adrian [Newey] had started, because underbodies take a
long time to come through it was only then that we got the
improvements". Newey had left the team just before the French GP, and
was replaced by Chris Murphy.

The report about LH is interesting and makes you think about Mr Hat
meeting Mr Mouth. "Basically Adrian Newey and Tim Holloway have gone
and we appointed Chris Murphy as the design director. [Mr Akagi and
Chris Murphy] knew what we needed to go racing and it was very much a
meeting of like minds..... Adrian was very good at aerodynamics but
Chris is more of an all-rounder and hopefully he will be able to put
together a good team of people."

The team qualified 7th and 10th. In warmup C. was 10th, G. 14th.
Capelli was in 6th by lap 27, 4th on 29, 3rd on 31, 2nd on 32 and
then took the lead on 33, which he kept till lap 78 (out of 80) when
Prost took the win. At the end the engine started to falter and only
just made it to the line, and only just ahead of Senna. The
problem with the engine was a lack of fuel pressure. The key was that
the set up on the car allowed the team to run the distance on one set
of tyres. This only came about because of Newey's new aerodynamic
package, which Brunner freely admitted "[The] changed aerodynamics
were from Adrian Newey -not from me".

The reason I remember it well was I had 25p each way on Capelli....

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Stephen M Baines

F1/TouringCars http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/stephen.baines

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Angus Gulliver


Question every piece of information that enters your mind...
...and it might grow bigger.