Fondmetal is an old stable of Formula 1 which disputed 2 seasons of championship of the world in 1991 and 1992. Fondmetal was born in 1991, following the repurchase of the small stable Osella. The stable managed to be qualified only with 19 recoveries, its best result is one 10th place (GP of Belgium 1991 and 1992) and its best qualification is one 10th place on the grid (Olivier Grouillard in Mexico in 1991).

History

Enzo Osella had creates its stable in 1972 and was present Formulates 1 of them since 1980. After 132 marked GP and 8 points (including 4 by Jean-Pierre Jarier with the GP of Marine Saint 1982), Osella at the edge of the financial drain sells its stable in Gabriele Rumi, the owner of the Fondmetal rims.

Rumi wishes to pass from the artisanal stage to a greater technical rigor for the design of its single-seaters. It thus recruits the former team of engineers of March, with unemployment since the repurchase by Leyton House. Rumi wishes to have V8 Cosworth prepared at Hart, of one transverse X-Trac and of a new back suspension limps. All these pious vows have as a consequence which Fondmetal is not finished in time to take share with the first GP of the season 1991, in Phoenix. Rumi does not engage whereas only one car, for Olivier Grouillard, to the great displeasure of Paul Belmondo contacted like second pilot. Grouillard manages to five recoveries to be left the pre-qualifications, and to even dispute four GP. It carries out even the exploit to be qualified in 5° line with the GP of Mexico City. Then, following the tumble of the results, it is replaced by Gabriele Tarquini starting from the GP of Spain. Tarquini will not do better than French since it is qualified only twice.

For 1992, Rumi wants to engage two single-seaters, for Tarquini and the Swiss pilot Andrea Chiesa. It lays out from now on engine Ford V8 HB5, used by Benetton the previous year. Rumi renews contact with the research department of Robin Herd but finally entrusts the drawing of its single-seater to Sergio Rinland, originator of the Brabham of 1990 and 1991 which becomes chief technical officer of the stable. But still, the times of design and realization are this year not held and spleen equips it the inaugural GP with Kyalami. It begins its season only with the GP from Mexico with material exceeded, serious handicap in these times of pre-qualifications and qualifications. Chiesa disputes 9 GP (6 not qualifications and 3 abandonments) before being replaced by Eric van of Stove, while Tarquini essuie 11 abandonments in as many races. Van de Poele carries out an exploit by finishing 10° GP of Belgium, but it is about the song of the swan of the stable. Indeed, after 2 new abandonments with the GP of Italy (13° GP of the season), the stable puts the key under the door. The adventure Formulates 1 of them will have lasted only two years.

The Fondmetal engine

In 2000, Gabriele Rumi, repurchases the stable of Formula 1 Minardi with its compatriot Giancarlo Minardi and decides to motorize Minardi M02 by an engine Ford Zetec R. However, as it is about an investment on his equities, Zetec is badge " Fondmetal" , of the name of the company of manufacture of rims alloys of Rumi. The " Fondmetal" 2000 are not other than Zetec 1998 which motorized the single-seaters Stewart Grand Prix SF02. If this engine were remarkable of reliability, it never made it possible Minardi to be extracted from the bottom of the starting grid. At the beginning of 2001, Gabriele Rumi, weakened by a cancer which will carry it later a few months, resells Minardi with the Australian contractor Paul Stoddart. The new PS01, initially conceived to accommodate V10 Supertec preserves finally Fondmetal, which will be then badge European, of the name of the company of air cargo directed by Stoddart.

Fondmetal RV 10 (or Ford Zetec-R or European, 2000)

• 10 cylinders out of V with 72°.
• Rolled: 2.998 Cm3
• Power: 770 ch
• driving Mode: 15.800 turns/min
• Weight: 124 kg

Results Formulates 1 of the Fondmetal stable of them

External bond

Fondmetal on F1 Rejects

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