Andrea Moda Formula
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| Full name | Andrea Moda Formula |
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| Base | Italy |
| Founder(s) | Andrea Sassetti |
| Noted drivers |
 Alex Caffi Enrico Bertaggia Roberto Moreno Perry McCarthy
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| Previous name | Coloni Racing |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1992 South African Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 9 |
| Engines | Judd |
| Constructors' Championships |
0 |
| Drivers' Championships |
0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Final entry | 1992 Belgian Grand Prix |
Andrea Moda Formula was a Formula One team that competed during the 1992 season. Its founder was Italian shoe designer Andrea Sassetti and the name came from Andrea Moda, Sassetti's company. The team participated in nine World Championship Grands Prix, but despite officially entering two cars for several races managed only a single race qualification.
In September 1991, Sassetti bought the Coloni F1 team after it had failed to pre-qualify a car for every single race that year. Coloni's four-year history resulted in 14 starts in 82 attempts. The team had not qualified or pre-qualified for a race since Roberto Moreno started 15th at the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix, while its best finish was an 8th place for Gabriele Tarquini in the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix.
The team hired a number of ex-Coloni staff and a deal was sought with Simtek to run a car which had been designed in 1990 for BMW. Now named the Andrea Moda S921 the chassis was fitted with Judd V10 engines but the cars were not ready for the start of the season.
Instead in South Africa Sassetti arrived with modified Coloni C4B chassis for drivers Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia. The team was excluded from the event for not having paid the $100,000 deposit for new teams in the World Championship, Sassetti arguing that it was not a new team as he had simply taken over the Coloni team and not formed a new one but the FIA were unmoved. Caffi performed a few reconnaissance laps in the Thursday familiarisation session (arranged as the revised Kyalami circuit was new to all the teams) but took no part in any of the official free practise or qualifying sessions. In Mexico the team arrived with all its equipment but the cars were still being built and neither ran.
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