EuroBrun

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EuroBrun
Formula One World Championship career
Full name	EuroBrun Racing
Base	Senago, Milan, Italy
Noted staff	Giampaolo Pavanello Walter Brun
Noted drivers	Stefano Modena Oscar Larrauri Roberto Moreno
Engines	Ford Judd
Debut	1988 Brazilian Grand Prix
Races competed	46 (21 starts)
Constructors' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	0 (best finish: 11th, 1988 Hungarian Grand Prix)
Pole positions	0 (best grid position: 15th, 1988 Canadian Grand Prix)
Fastest laps	0
Final race	1990 Spanish Grand Prix

EuroBrun Racing was a Formula One constructor from Senago, Milan, Italy, with an Italo-Swiss ownership. They participated in 46 grands prix, entering a total of 76 cars.

The team was a combination of two outfits - the mechanical manpower and skill of Giampaolo Pavanello's Euroracing team, who had also ran the factory backed Alfa Romeo Formula One team from 1982-85, and the financial muscle and organisational skill of Swiss slot machine magnate Walter Brun, who ran the Brun Motorsport sports car team.

Oscar Larrauri driving for EuroBrun at the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix.

For 1988, Mario Tolentino designed the ER188 chassis, to be powered by a normally aspirated 3.5 L Cosworth DFZ engine. Formula 3000 champion Stefano Modena and long-time Brun stalwart Oscar Larrauri were signed to drive. Despite a solid if unspectacular start to the season, EuroBrun were struggling as money ran low. There was internal trouble when Brun unsuccessfully tried to replace Larrauri with Christian Danner, and Euroracing were showing disinterest in Formula One. Both drivers would fail to qualify at certain events (Modena missing out four times, and being excluded from another two races for technical infringements, and Larrauri failing seven times), and Modena's 11th place at the Hungarian Grand Prix would be their best result.

Before the 1989 season, Euroracing slimmed down to a nominal level of involvement, in the shape of a handful of engineers and mechanics. EuroBrun dropped down to a single car, to be driven by Gregor Foitek, while the ER188 was modified slightly to take a Judd V8 engine and Pirelli tyres. The team would only make it through pre-qualifying once, and then Foitek failed to qualify. Even the introduction of George Ryton's new ER189 for the German Grand Prix didn't help. Foitek quit after the Belgian Grand Prix, with Larrauri returning. The Argentine was no more successful, though.

Despite failing to start a single race in 1989, the team returned in 1990 with two cars once again. Pavanello had now left the partnership altogether, and the team would be starting the season with the ER189. Roberto Moreno would lead the team, with Claudio Langes in the second car. Langes would not make it through pre-qualifying once. A freak United States Grand Prix qualifying session saw Moreno start 16th on the grid, and he eventually finished 13th. The capable Brazilian would qualify again at the San Marino Grand Prix, and come close on a number of occasions, but as Brun lost enthusiasm, the EuroBruns got further and further from the grid. After 14 rounds, the team withdrew from the Formula One Championship, having made only 21 starts from 76 entries.

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engines	Tyres	Driver(s)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Points	WCC
1988	EuroBrun ER188	Ford DFZ V8	G		BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	CAN	DET	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS	0	NC
				Oscar Larrauri	Ret	DNQ	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	16	DNQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret
				Stefano Modena	Ret	NC	DSQ	DSQ	12	Ret	14	12	Ret	11	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	13	DNQ	Ret
1989	EuroBrun ER188B EuroBrun ER189	Judd CV V8	P		BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS	0	NC
				Gregor Foitek	DNQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ
				Oscar Larrauri												DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ
1990	EuroBrun ER189B	Judd CV V8	P		USA	BRA	SMR	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS	0	NC
				Roberto Moreno	13	DNPQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DSQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ
				Claudio Langes	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ

References

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