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>Maybe Christian means the AGS which Johansson subsequently drove... NOT a
>good car by any stretch of the imagination. Onyx could have been a good
>solid midfield team had (A) van Rossem not run into difficulties and (B)
>the original management team been left to do it properly by Monteverdi.
I'd rate AGS 1987 as one of the worst equipes of the past 15 years.
Pascal Fabre was hopeless and only made grids because of less than 27
entrants and no maximum time rule. People make fun of Forti nowadays
for (not) qualifying at about 107.5% (Badoer was threatening to get
inside 105% at Montreal), but I think Fabre was usually around 115%.
I seem to have lost any 1987 reference books I had, so I can't check.
Next year, AGS had that neat little car that Streiff was pretty mighty
in. Then Tarquini did well in it after Streiff's paralysis in 1989. I
think Tarquini was still managing to qualify the AGS in 1991 when
Johansson wasn't, so I wouldn't rate it as low as some other no-hopers.
Thinking about Van Rossem and "Moneytron" reminds me of some of those
bizarre team ownership soap opera storylines from that period. Like
that Didier Calmels ***. Made that weird Formula One TV show look
pretty tame.
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