Озелла (команда «Формулы-1»): различия между версиями

| известные пилоты = {{Флаг Франции}} [[Жарье, Жан-Пьер|Жан-Пьер Жарье]] <br /> {{Флаг Италии}} [[Гиндзани, Пьеркарло|Пьеркарло Гиндзани]]

| конструктор = Osella-[[Ford]] <br /> Osella-[[Alfa Romeo]]

'''Osella'''  — [[Италия|итальянская]] команда [[Формула-1|Формулы-1]], базировавшаяся недалеко от [[Турин]]а. Команда участвовала в 132 Гран-при с {{F1|1980}} по {{F1|1990}}.

Команда, названная в честь своего основателя Винченцо "«Энцо"» Озеллы, начала свою историю в гонках [[Abarth]] на местном и национальном уровне в середине 1960-х в Италии. Будучи довольно успешной в гонках этого уровня (Osella, в конце концов, взяла программу спорткаров Abarth под свой контроль), команда продолжила развитие в одноместных гонках в 1974 году. Команда заявилась в чемпионат [[Формула-2|Формулы-2]] в 1975 с собственным шасси Osella FA2, с которым команде удалось набрать одно очко стараниями француза [[Миго, Франсуа|Франсуа Миго]].

In the early years, most of the work was done by interim designers like [[Giorgio Valentini]] or [[Tony Southgate]], but frequently Enzo Osella himself also worked on the cars. Sadly, most of these attempts brought no improvement as high tech solutions could not be financed. Needless to say that the cars did not see a [[wind tunnel]] until [[1988]]. [[Jean-Pierre Jarier]] finished fourth at [[San Marino Grand Prix|Imola]] in [[1982]] (where only 14 cars started) and scored the first Championship points for the young team in a car that was by now dubbed Osella FA1/C.

The lack of funding, as so often happens in the sport, led to frequent driver changes as the team demanded that their drivers bring significant sponsorship to keep the team afloat. Some drivers started a fine career at Osella ([[Alex Caffi]], [[Nicola Larini]] and [[Christian Danner]], for example). Others disappeared as quickly as they had come (such as [[Franco Forini]] or [[Allen Berg]]). It is worth noticing that it was Enzo Osella who gave the young Austrian [[Jo Gartner]] his one and only chance to drive a Formula One car in [[1984]]. [[Riccardo Paletti]] also had high hopes but was killed in a startline accident at the [[1982 Canadian Grand Prix]].

In the mid [[1980s]], Osella was the political beneficiary of factory [[Alfa Romeo]] engines (both in [[normally-aspirated]] ([[1983]]) and [[turbo]] (1984-19871984—1987) forms). Osella and Alfa Romeo had a strange relationship. On one hand, the Alfa engine program helped the team to survive the highly professional turbo era. On the other hand the heavy, unreliable and thirsty machines contributed to the team'steam’s lack of competitiveness. At least in the beginning, Alfa offered some technical input to the small [[Turin]] team; The 1984 Osella (the model FA 1/F) was based on the 1983 works Alfa Romeo 183T, which had been loaned to the team for "«design assistance"» purposes. All the following Osella models up to the FA 1/I in 1988 had their origins in the initial Alfa design.

Unfortunately, the Alfa engine was not reliable. Chargers blew off regularly and power output had to be reduced down to the level of the non-turbo cars just to achieve the necessary reliability. Osella more than once tried to replace the Alfa engines with more up-to-date [[Motori Moderni]]-Turbos (which [[Minardi]] did not support) or with [[Cosworth]] engines. In the end, both solutions were too expensive so Osella had to stay with his out-dated but cheap Alfa engines. In 1988, the last turbo season, Alfa was fed up with the negative publicity generated by Enzo Osella'sOsella’s cars, so the [[Milan]]-based manufacturer prohibited the further use of its name in connection with the engine. The 1988 engines were simply dubbed "«Osella V8"». At the end of that season, Enzo Osella was more than happy to finally get rid of them.

In 1990, after 10 years in Formula One and still without any meaningful sponsorship, Enzo Osella sold shares in his team to metalwork [[magnate]] [[Gabriele Rumi]] as part of a sponsorship deal with the [[Fondmetal]] company. At the end of 1990, Rumi took over the remainder of the team and renamed it [[Fondmetal]] (Fomet).

== Возвращение в гонки [[Спортивный автомобиль|спорткарспорткаров]]ов ==

The involvement of Gabriele Rumi meant the end of Enzo Osella'sOsella’s activities in Formula One. Instead he concentrated on the thing he knew best: sports car racing. During his Formula One years, he never gave up building sports cars; in fact this was one of the few projects that regularly brought money to Volpiano. A few of those sports cars even found their way to the [[Can Am]] series, although without much success. In the [[1990s]], Osella moved to [[Atella]] in the south of Italy where he build a new ultra-modern facility to produce some very competitive sports cars. Many of them were sold to privateers, while others were entered in several classes by the Osella works team. The works team was particularly successful in [[hillclimb]] races. In 1995 for instance works team driver [[Pasquale Irlando]] won all 9 races of the European hillclimb championship using the Osella PA18. He won the title in 1997, 1998 and 1999 consecutively. Sadly his successor [[Fabio Danti]] died in one of Osella'sOsella’s cars when he was competing in the 2000 Championship. Hillclimb stars like [[Franz Tschager]] and [[Martin Krisam]] continue to use Osella cars.-->

* ''Official Formula One site: Archives 1980 - 19901980—1990'' http://www.formula1.com/archive/season/1980.html Accessed 12 March 2006

* [http://www.f1archive.ru/teams/osella_team.html Представляем команду - — Osella]