ARROWS

:''This article is about a Formula One team. For other meanings of 'Arrow' and 'Arrows', see Arrow (disambiguation)''
'Arrows Grand Prix International' was a Formula One team active from 1977 to 2002. For a period of time, it was also known as 'Footwork'.

Contents

Origins of the team

Racing History

Arrows Grand Prix International

Footwork Arrows

TWR Arrows

Complete Formula One Results

Further use of Arrows chassis

External links

Origins of the team

The Arrows Grand Prix International team was founded in 1977, by Italian financier Franco Ambrosio (A), Alan Rees (R), Jackie Oliver (O), Dave Wass (W) and Tony Southgate (S) when Rees, Oliver, Wass and Southgate left the Shadow team.
The team was started in Milton Keynes, England and produced their first Formula One car in just 53 days. Arrows signed up Riccardo Patrese who scored points in the US West Grand Prix at Long Beach in the car's third race.
Ambrosio left the team due to being jailed for financial irregularities in Italy. Shadow sued for copyright infringement, claiming that the Arrows FA/1 was just a copy of the Shadow DN9. The team decided to build a new car called the A1. This was completed in 52 days and appeared the day after the High Court in London banned the team from racing the FA/1.

Racing History

Arrows Grand Prix International

In September 1978, in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Patrese was involved in an accident which claimed the life of Ronnie Peterson and he was banned from racing in America by his fellow drivers. In 1981, Patrese would score the team's only F1 pole position in Long Beach, which he led until retiring with mechanical problems. Arrows finished joint 8th in the Constructors Championship that year.

In 1984 with BMW turbo engines and sponsorship from cigarette company Barclay things got much better. That year they were 9th in the Constructors Championship and 8th in 1985. In 1987, BMW removed support and the engines were badged Megatron, but the British team had their best seasons yet, finising 6th in and 4th in (the final year for turbocharged engines) thanks to frequent points finishes by drivers Eddie Cheever and Derek Warwick.

Footwork Arrows

:''Main article: Footwork Arrows
Japanese businessman Wataru Ohashi invested in Arrows in 1990 and the cars started displaying the Footwork logo prominently. The team was officially renamed Footwork in 1991, and secured a deal to race with Porsche engines, with disastrous results, and in 1992 they switched to Mugen. Arrows retained the Footwork name until Ito pulled out before the 1996 season, whereupon the name of the team was changed back to Arrows. Regardless, Jackie Oliver had retained control throughout the entire period.

TWR Arrows

In March 1996, Tom Walkinshaw bought a stake in the team, and in September Walkinshaw signed up World Champion Damon Hill and hired wealthy Brazilian Pedro Diniz to help pay for the World Champion. The team nearly secured a maiden victory at the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix when a combination of race events gave Hill the lead but a gearbox failure in the final laps of the race saw him finish second. In the following years Walkinshaw would buy the rest of Oliver's shares. Brian Hart, who had been the engine supplier since 1995, was employed by the team, designing the Yamaha-badged engines, and later the Arrows-badged engine, in 1998.
In the 2000 Season, Jos Verstappen returned to Arrows where he had driven in 1996 alongside teammate Pedro de la Rosa. The chassis was a Arrows A21 with a Supertec engine. The Supertec engine was not the most powerful, but was still very good, and had been developed further for this season. Allied to an excellent aerodynamic package, and good rear end stability, it allowed the Arrows A21 to consistently set the best straight line speeds around the circuits. Generally, both Verstappen and de la Rosa were competitive within a close midfield.

A switch to Asiatech V10s in 2001 and the loss of a lot of staff left the team rather weaker in 2001 when Tom Walkinshaw decided to replace de la Rosa with F1 debutant Enrique Bernoldi.The team struggled through the season and Verstappen scored the team's only point in Austria.

For 2002, Tom Walkinshaw did a deal to use Cosworth V10 engines and retained Bernoldi (with support from Red Bull) but dropped Verstappen in favour of Heinz-Harald Frentzen who became available when Prost Grand Prix closed down. The team ran out of money in the midseason and failed to appear at all the races at the end of the year. As a result it went into liquidation at the end of the season, also forcing TWR to close.
A consortium fronted by Phoenix Finance - run by Charles Nickerson, a friend of Walkinshaw - purchased part of the team's assets, specifically the engines, believing that together with their purchase of old Prost Grand Prix assets, it would gain them entrance for the 2003 season. Unfortunately, they were barred from running by the FIA.
A painful detail is that Verstappen was offered a test contract that same year at Ferrari but turned that offer down because he respected his contract with Arrows.
In its checkered history, Arrows set the unenviable record of 382 races without a win.

Complete Formula One Results

() (results in bold indicate 'pole position')

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
	Arrows FA1 Arrows A1	Ford V8			ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	MON	BEL	ESP	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN		'8'	'10th'
				Riccardo Patrese		10	Ret	6	6	Ret	Ret	2	8	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	EX	4
				Rolf Stommelen			9	9	Ret	Ret	14	14	15	DNQ	DSQ	DNQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	16	DNQ
	Arrows A1 Arrows A2	Ford V8			ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA			'5'	'9th'
				Riccardo Patrese	DNS	9	11	Ret	10	5	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret
				Jochen Mass	8	7	12	9	8	Ret	6	15	Ret	6	Ret	6	Ret	DNQ	DNQ
	Arrows A3	Ford V8			ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA				'11'	'7th'
				Riccardo Patrese	Ret	6	Ret	2	Ret	8	9	9	9	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Jochen Mass	Ret	10	6	7	Ret	4	10	13	8	DNQ	Inj	Inj	11	Ret
				Mike Thackwell											DNQ
				Manfred Winkelhock												DNQ
	Arrows A3	Ford V8			USW	BRA	ARG	SMR	BEL	MON	ESP	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	LVS			'10'	'8th'
				Riccardo Patrese	'Ret'	3	7	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	11
				Siegfried Stohr	DNQ	Ret	9	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	12	Ret	7	DNQ
				Jacques Villeneuve														DNQ	DNQ
	Arrows A4 Arrows A5	Ford V8			RSA	BRA	USW	SMR	BEL	MON	USE	CAN	NED	GBR	FRA	GER	AUT	SUI	ITA	LVS		'5'	'10th'
				Marc Surer	Inj	Inj	Inj	WD	7	9	8	5	10	Ret	13	6	Ret	15	11	7
				Brian Henton	DNQ	DNQ	Ret
				Mauro Baldi	DNQ	10	DNQ	WD	Ret	DNQ	Ret	8	6	9	Ret	Ret	6	DNQ	12	11
	Arrows A6	Ford V8			BRA	USW	FRA	SMR	MON	BEL	USE	CAN	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	EUR	RSA			'4'	'10th'
				Marc Surer	6	5	10	6	Ret	11	11	Ret	17	7	Ret	8	10	Ret	8
				Chico Serra	9		Ret	8	7
				Alan Jones		Ret
				Thierry Boutsen						Ret	7	7	15	9	13	14	Ret	11	9
	Arrows A6 Arrows A7	Ford V8 BMW S4 (t/c)			BRA	RSA	BEL	SMR	FRA	MON	CAN	USE	USA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	EUR	POR		'6'	'9th'
				Marc Surer	7	9	8	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Thierry Boutsen	6	12	Ret	5	11	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	10	9	Ret
	Arrows A8	BMW S4 (t/c)			BRA	POR	SMR	MON	CAN	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	BEL	EUR	RSA	AUS		'14'	'8th'
				Gerhard Berger	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	11	Ret	8	7	Ret	9	Ret	7	10	5	6
				Thierry Boutsen	11	Ret	2	9	9	7	9	Ret	4	8	Ret	9	10	6	6	Ret
	Arrows A8 Arrows A9	BMW S4 (t/c)			BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	BEL	CAN	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	MEX	AUS		'1'	'10th'
				Marc Surer	Ret	Ret	9	9	9	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj
				Christian Danner							Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	8	11	9	Ret
				Thierry Boutsen	Ret	7	7	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	NC	NC	10	Ret	Ret	7	10	7	Ret
	Arrows A10	Megatron S4 (t/c)			BRA	SMR	BEL	MON	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	ESP	MEX	JPN	AUS		'11'	'6th'
				Derek Warwick	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	13	10	Ret	10	Ret
				Eddie Cheever	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	6	8	4	9	Ret
	Arrows A10B	Megatron S4 (t/c)			BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	CAN	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		'23'	'4th'
				Derek Warwick	4	9	4	5	7	Ret	Ret	6	7	Ret	5	4	4	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Eddie Cheever	8	7	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	11	7	10	Ret	6	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
	Arrows A11	Ford V8			BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		'13'	'7th'
				Derek Warwick	5	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Inj	9	6	10	6	Ret	Ret	9	6	Ret
				Martin Donnelly							12
				Eddie Cheever	Ret	9	7	7	3	Ret	7	DNQ	12	5	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	8	Ret
	Arrows A11 Arrows A11B	Ford V8			USA	BRA	SMR	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		'2'	'9th'
				Michele Alboreto	10	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	17	10	Ret	Ret	12	13	12	9	10	Ret	DNQ
				Bernd Schneider	12													DNQ
				Alex Caffi	Inj	Ret	DNQ	5	8	DNQ	Ret	7	9	9	10	9	13	Inj	9	DNQ
	Arrows A11C Footwork FA12 Footwork FA12B	Porsche V12 Ford V8			USA	BRA	SMR	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		'0'	'NC'
				Alex Caffi	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	10	15
				Stefan Johansson					Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
				Michele Alboreto	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNPQ	DNQ	15	Ret	DNQ	13
	Footwork FA13	Mugen Honda V10			RSA	MEX	BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	AUS		'6'	'7th'
				Michele Alboreto	10	13	6	5	5	7	7	7	7	9	7	Ret	7	6	15	Ret
				Aguri Suzuki	8	DNQ	Ret	7	10	11	DNQ	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	10	8	8
	Footwork FA13B Footwork FA14	Mugen Honda V10			RSA	BRA	EUR	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	AUS		'4'	'9th'
				Derek Warwick	7	9	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	16	13	6	17	4	Ret	Ret	15	14	10
				Aguri Suzuki	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	10	Ret	13	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7
	Footwork FA15	Ford V8			BRA	PAC	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	JPN	AUS		'9'	'9th'
				Christian Fittipaldi	Ret	4	13	Ret	Ret	DSQ	8	9	4	14	Ret	Ret	8	17	8	8
				Gianni Morbidelli	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	6	Ret	9	11	Ret	Ret
	Footwork FA16	Hart V8			BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	PAC	JPN	AUS	'5'	'8th'
				Gianni Morbidelli	Ret	Ret	13	11	9	6	14								Ret	Ret	3
				Max Papis								Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	12
				Taki Inoue	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	8	15	Ret	Ret	12	Ret
	Footwork FA17	Hart V8			AUS	BRA	ARG	EUR	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN		'1'	'9th'
				Ricardo Rosset	9	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	11	8	9	Ret	14	13
				Jos Verstappen	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	11
	Arrows A18	Yamaha V10			AUS	BRA	ARG	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	AUT	LUX	JPN	EUR	'9'	'8th'
				Damon Hill	DNS	17	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	12	6	8	2	13	Ret	7	8	12	Ret
				Pedro Diniz	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	13	5	13	Ret
	Arrows A19	Arrows V10			AUS	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	LUX	JPN		'6'	'7th'
				Pedro Diniz	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	9	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	5	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Mika Salo	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	4	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	DNS	Ret	14	Ret
	Arrows A20	Arrows V10			AUS	BRA	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	EUR	MAL	JPN		'1'	'=9th'
				Pedro de la Rosa	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	15	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	13
				Toranosuke Takagi	7	8	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	11	16	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
	Arrows A21	Supertec V10			AUS	BRA	SMR	GBR	ESP	EUR	MON	CAN	FRA	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	MAL	'7'	'7th'
				Pedro de la Rosa	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	DNS	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	16	16	Ret	Ret	12	Ret
				Jos Verstappen	Ret	7	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	15	4	Ret	Ret	10
	Arrows A22	Asiatech V10			AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	'1'	'10th'
				Jos Verstappen	10	7	Ret	Ret	12	6	8	10	Ret	13	10	9	12	10	Ret	Ret	15
				Enrique Bernoldi	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	8	Ret	12	Ret	13	14
	Arrows A23	Cosworth V10			AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	'2'	'11th'
				Heinz-Harald Frentzen	DSQ	11	Ret	Ret	6	11	6	13	13	Ret	DNQ	Ret
				Enrique Bernoldi	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	10	Ret	DNQ	Ret

Further use of Arrows chassis

The chassis and intellectual property rights for the chassis were later bought by Paul Stoddart, the then-head of the Minardi team as a potential replacement for his own team's chassis. The new Super Aguri F1 team bought the 2002 cars and ran them (with some modifications) as the SA05 during the first races of the 2006 season. An update still based on the same chassis was designated the SA06 and made its début at the 2006 German Grand Prix. The SA05 and SA06 did not score a single point in the 2006 season. They are also based at the former Arrows factory in Leafield.

External links

★ F1 Rejects article on Arrows from 1996 to 2002

★ Orange Arrows Karting