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[VDP]

At the beginning there was a little engine called Ferraris no relation to the other one !!
It was developped later in 2 liter form and showed promising performances, but further no more?
I saw it first at Monza in a lola or chevron body More info help


Robert

[Frank de Jong]

Hi Robert! In my records, I've found one car with a Romeo-Ferraris 4F820 engine: a Lola T292, in 1974, driven by Gagliardi. My notes say this V8 was based on a Fiat 128 - must have been 2 blocks?
90°V8, 4 cams, 32 valves, 81,0 x 48,3 mm, 1991 cc, 320 HP, Kugelfischer fuel injection - that's all I know.

[Frank de Jong]

Another car which used this engine was the 1976 Osella PA3 of Truffo. For the record, the 2-litre engine was supposed to have 330 HP/12500 rpm.

[Maldwyn]

Wasn't there a Ferrari engine developed for F2 in 1977?

[jarama]

IIRC, Lamberto Leoni was the driver of the Chevron B40 Ferrari-powered in 1977, winning the Misano race.

[maxim]

In 1980 (or 1981?) didn't Michele Alboreto win an Euro F2 race at Misano driving a Minardi-Ferrari ?

[Frank de Jong]

The Ferrari F2 engine was a 6-cilinder engine - it had nothing in relation with the above mentioned Romeo-Ferraris V8 sportscar engine. So it is a bit OT, I'm afraid.

[fines]

Originally posted by maxim
In 1980 (or 1981?) didn't Michele Alboreto win an Euro F2 race at Misano driving a Minardi-Ferrari ?

No, the Minardi had a BMW engine.

[Emulman]

In 1980 (or 1981?) didn't Michele Alboreto win an Euro F2 race at Misano driving a Minardi-Ferrari ?
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No, the Minardi had a BMW engine.

In 1981 a Minardi-Ferrari ran at the F2 race at Donington Park, drived by Paolo Barilla (retired)

[rateus]

I'm currently looking through Autosports from the start of 1976 and there are 2 separate news items stating that Osella were testing the Romeo Ferraris engine with a view to using it in Formula 2 that year (this being the year that F2 was opened up to full racing engines).  Anyone know if these tests were carried out using their existing F2 chassis or in the back of their G6 car?

[Henk Vasmel]

In my database of Sportscars in the 70's, I have 23 entries for cars with Ferraris engines. Makes are Lola (T292/T294), Osella (PA3/PA4), GiPi (one of them called a 1000) and AMS. Years 73-80. Most are the common V8-1992 but one could be a 1300, and the GiPi 1000 is in the 1 Litre class.

I would love to give you an Excel-like table, but I don't know how to post one on a forum.