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8 Jan 2005, 02:15 (Ref:1195651)
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Monterverdi/Onyx
having a little play finding some old f1 pictures I came acroos some pics of the Monterverdi Onyx team.
Now we all know they ran in 1989 and 1990 but I found THIS page with some photos of them on it and down the page is some pictures of a 1991 car. i know the team went broke and didnt run in 1991 but I didnt know they actually had a car planned for the season. does anyone know anything about these 1991 cars at all ?? (im obviously talking about the red cars) |
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8 Jan 2005, 02:19 (Ref:1195653)
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actually found some more pics at F1 rejects
 and even one of the car running with JJ Lehto testing it  is this just the 1990 repainted ? |
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10 Jan 2005, 10:42 (Ref:1197102)
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It looks very much like the original Onyx. I couldn't imagine Monterverdi were able to design and buld a new car, bearing in mind they couldn't run the old ones very effectively!
It is a sad end to a promising story. The Onyx was a good little car, and even managed a podium in its first year. By that measure, they had a better debut year than Sauber and Jordan, for example. However, the sale of the team to Monteverdi after the original backer Moneytron hit trouble was the end of the team, just 18 months after entering F1. |
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10 Jan 2005, 10:56 (Ref:1197119)
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Not quite sure but the car does posess more than a passing resemblnce to a Reynard F3000 car??
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10 Jan 2005, 11:07 (Ref:1197128)
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it does look like a 89 or 90 reynard doesnt it ???
But No apparently Ive done a bit of looking and this was a brand new 1991 chassis for the Onyx team. a shame they couldnt continue 
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14 Jan 2005, 15:55 (Ref:1200960)
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IIRC, the rear wing end-plate size was reduced in 1991 (change of regulations) and the red/white Onyx car's rear wing end-plate seems to fit that.
Also, the 1990 Onyx ORE-2 had a much smaller engine cover than the red/white one has. |
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