F1 Team Facts and Figures: Arrows

LONDON (Reuters) -- Following are facts and figures about the Arrows team ahead of the 2002 Formula One season:

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     Based: Leafield, England.
     Team principal: Tom Walkinshaw
     Drivers:
     Enrique Bernoldi (Brazil) 23 (October 19 1978)
     Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Germany) 34 (May 18 1967)
     Test driver: To be announced
     Car: Arrows A23, powered by Ford Cosworth V10 engine.
     Tyres: Bridgestone.
     Technical director: Mike Coughlan.
     Formula One record:
     Starts 371, poles 1 (Riccardo Patrese (Italy), USA-West,
1981), wins 0, points 165.
     First GP entered: Brazil 1978.
     Arrows hold the Formula One record for number of races
contested by a team without a single win.
     2001 season (Jos Verstappen/Bernoldi): 10th, one point.
sixth x1, seventh x1, eighth x2, ninth x2, 10th x4, 12th x3,
13th x2, 14th x2, 15th x1, retired x16.
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     Team history:
     1977 - Arrows Racing Team founded.
     1978 - Formula One debut, Riccardo Patrese leads in second
race (South Africa) before retiring.
     1986 - Ross Brawn arrives as designer.
     1989 - Footwork buy team.
     1990 - Ross Brawn leaves.
     1994 - Team changes name back to Arrows.
     1996 - Walkinshaw takes control of team.
     1997 - John Barnard appointed technical director.
     1998 - Barnard leaves for Prost.
     2002 - secure Cosworth engines.
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     Season by season (year, standing, points, drivers):
     1978 - ninth equal, 11 (Riccardo Patrese/Rolf Stommelen)
     1979 - ninth, 5 (Patrese/Jochen Mass)
     1980 - seventh equal, 11 (Patrese/Mass)
     1981 - eighth equal, 10 (Patrese/Siegfried Stohr)
     1982 - 10th, 5 (Mauro Baldi/Brian Henton/Marc Surer)
     1983 - 10th, 4 (Surer/Chico Serra/Thierry Boutsen)
     1984 - ninth, six (Surer/Boutsen)
     1985 - eighth, 14 (Boutsen/Gerhard Berger)
     1986 - 10th, 1 (Surer/Boutsen/Christian Danner)
     1987 - sixth equal, 11 (Derek Warwick/Eddie Cheever)
     1988 - fourth equal, 23 (Warwick/Cheever)
     1989 - seventh, 13 (Warwick/Cheever/Martin Donnelly)
     1990 - ninth equal, 2 (Michele Alboreto/Ivan Capelli)
     1991 - no points (Alboreto/Alex Caffi/Stefan Johansson)
     1992 - (as Footwork) seventh equal, six. (Alboreto/Aguri
Suzuki)
     1993 - (as Footwork) ninth, four (Warwick/Suzuki)
     1994 - (as Footwork) ninth, nine (Christian
Fittipaldi/Gianni Morbidelli)
     1995 - (as Footwork) eighth equal, five (Morbidelli/Taki
Inoue/Massimiliano Papis)
     1996 - (as Footwork) ninth, one (Ricardo Rosset/Jos
Verstappen).
     1997 - eighth, nine (Damon Hill/Pedro Diniz).
     1998 - seventh, six (Diniz/Mika Salo)
     1999 - ninth, one (Pedro de la Rosa, Tora Takagi)
     2000 - seventh, seven (Verstappen/Johnny Herbert)

 

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