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1991 Footwork A11C-02

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Footwork was a Formula One team created in 1991 following the takeover of Jackie Oliver’s Arrows team by the Japanese consortium of the same name. At the time, Arrows was in severe financial difficulty.

After several seasons competing in Formula 3000, Footwork entered the Formula One World Championship from 1991 to 1993. However, an economic recession in Japan—combined with the consortium’s involvement in a political and financial scandal—led to the team’s withdrawal from Formula One.

Over three seasons and 42 Grands Prix, Footwork scored a total of 10 championship points. Its best result in the Constructors’ Championship was seventh place in 1992. At the end of 1993, Jackie Oliver repurchased the team and reinstated the Arrows name for the 1994 season. Footwork nevertheless remained involved in Formula One as a sponsor of Arrows.

The Arrows A11 was the Formula One car used by the Arrows team during the 1989 and 1990 seasons, and at the start of the 1991 season, when it was briefly rebadged as a Footwork.

Designed by Ross Brawn, the A11 was the first Arrows chassis built following the ban on turbocharged engines at the end of 1988. It was powered by a normally aspirated 3.5-liter Ford Cosworth DFR V8 engine.

In 1989, the A11 achieved reasonably strong results with Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever as drivers. Warwick finished in the points on five occasions and briefly challenged for victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, while Cheever finished third at the United States Grand Prix, held in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. With 13 points, Arrows finished seventh in the Constructors’ Championship.

For 1990, the car received minor suspension updates and was designated the A11B. Italian drivers Michele Alboretoand Alex Caffi replaced Warwick and Cheever. The season proved far less successful: the car failed to qualify seven times and scored points only once, when Caffi finished fifth in an attritional Monaco Grand Prix. Caffi also missed the United States and Spanish Grands Prix due to injury, with Germany’s Bernd Schneider deputizing on both occasions. The two points from Monaco placed Arrows ninth in the Constructors’ Championship.

By the start of the 1991 season, the team had been taken over by the Japanese Footwork organization and renamed accordingly. A new engine partnership with Porsche was secured, replacing the Ford units with the Porsche 3512 V12.

However, the team’s intended 1991 car, the FA12, required a complete redesign when it was discovered that the large Porsche engine could not fit into the chassis. As a result, the team modified the existing A11B to accommodate the V12, creating the A11C, which was used for the first two races of the season. The A11C was also pressed back into service at the San Marino Grand Prix after Alboreto destroyed his FA12 during practice.

From five race attempts, the aging A11C qualified only once—driven by Alboreto at the United States Grand Prix—before being permanently retired.