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| Full name |  Chris Amon Racing |
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| Base | New Zealand |
| Founder(s) | Chris Amon |
| Noted staff | John Dalton Gordon Fowell |
| Noted drivers | Chris Amon Larry Perkins |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1966 Italian Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 5 |
| Constructors | Brabham-BRM Amon-Ford |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Final entry | 1974 Italian Grand Prix |
Chris Amon Racing, also known simply asAmon, was aFormula One team established by New Zealand driverChris Amon. It competed as a privateer team in the1966 Italian Grand Prix, then as a constructor in its own right in the1974 Formula One season.
Chris Amon made his Formula One debut in1963, driving forReg Parnell's privateer team. After finding himself without a full-time drive in1966, he entered aBrabham BT11 powered by a 2-litreBRM engine at theItalian Grand Prix, under the banner of "Chris Amon Racing". With most of the other cars running 3-litre engines, Amon struggled in qualifying and failed to make the grid.
From1967 until1972, Amon drove forFerrari,March andMatra, winning several non-championship F1 races while developing a reputation for bad luck in World Championship events. He then struggled in1973 with the small ItalianTecno team. But encouraged by the potential of the underdevelopedGordon Fowell chassis, Amon tried running his own Formula One car in1974. Financial backing came from John Dalton, and the car, designed by Fowell, followed theLotus 72 in some areas of construction, with sophisticated torsion-bar suspension and side radiators.[1]
The venture failed completely: retiring from the first race, Amon withdrew from the second, and the car was unable to qualify for two more before the team closed down due to financial problems.
 The Amon F1 car. | |||||||||
| Category | Formula One | ||||||||
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| Constructor | Chris Amon Racing | ||||||||
| Designers | Gordon Fowell (Technical Director) Tom Boyce (Chief Designer) | ||||||||
| Technical specifications[2] | |||||||||
| Chassis | Aluminiummonocoque, with engine as a fully stressed member. | ||||||||
| Engine | FordCosworth DFV 2,993 cc (182.6 cu in) 90°V8,naturally aspirated,mid-mounted. | ||||||||
| Transmission | Hewland FG 400 5-speedmanual gearbox, withBorg & Beckclutch. | ||||||||
| Tyres | Firestone | ||||||||
| Competition history | |||||||||
| Notable entrants | Chris Amon Racing | ||||||||
| Notable drivers | Chris AmonLarry Perkins | ||||||||
| Debut | 1974 Spanish Grand Prix | ||||||||
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Unless otherwise stated, all data refer to Formula One World Championship Grands Prix only. | |||||||||
The AF101 was the only Formula One car built by Amon Racing; the AF101 designation deriving from A for Amon and F for Fowell.[1] Fowell andTom Boyce designed the car which featured a single central fuel tank, titaniumtorsion bars and a forward driving position. One unusual (for the time) feature of the AF101 was that the fuel tank was located between the driver's cockpit and the engine.[1] Structurally, it proved to be weak and was not ready for a Formula One appearance until the fourth race of the season, theSpanish Grand Prix. Amon was only able to qualify 23rd, due tobrake-disc vibration that became worse with the tyres required for the wet race that followed. Despite cautious driving, abrake shaft finally broke and Amon was forced to retire after 22 laps.[3]
Following further work and testing, Amon returned for theMonaco Grand Prix and qualified twentieth, but due to mechanical problems, he was unable to start the race.[4] Further problems meant Amon was not able to reappear with the AF101 until theGerman Grand Prix when both Amon andLarry Perkins failed to qualify.[5] Amon did not reappear with the AF101 until theItalian Grand Prix, three races before the end of the season, but this time he was unable to qualify.[6] That signalled the end of both the car and Chris Amon Racing, leaving Amon to close down the team after the race when the money ran out.
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Points | WCC |
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| 1966 | Chris Amon Racing | BrabhamBT11 | BRMV8 | D | MON | BEL | FRA | GBR | NED | GER | ITA | USA | MEX | 0 | NC | |||||||
| Chris Amon | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974 | Dalton-Amon International | Amon AF101 | CosworthV8 | F | ARG | BRA | RSA | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | 0 | NC | |
| Chris Amon | Ret | DNS | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Larry Perkins | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Source:[7] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(key)
| Year | Entrant | Engine | Tyres | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Chris Amon Racing | FordCosworth DFV | F | PRE | ROC | INT | |
| Chris Amon | DNS |