Larrousse
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| Full name | Larrousse & Calmels |
|---|---|
| Base | Antony, Paris, France |
| Founder(s) |
Gérard Larrousse Didier Calmels |
| Noted staff |
Eric Broadley Ralph Bellamy Robin Herd James Allison |
| Noted drivers |
 Érik Comas Philippe Alliot Aguri Suzuki Ukyo Katayama
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1987 San Marino Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 127 |
| Constructors |
Lola Venturi Larrousse |
| Drivers' Championships |
0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Final entry | 1994 Australian Grand Prix |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
|---|---|
| Entrants | Larrousse |
| First entry | 1993 South African Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1994 Australian Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 32 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Constructors' Championships | 0 |
| Drivers' Championships |
0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
Larrousse Formula One was a motorsports racing team founded in 1987 by Didier Calmels and former racer Gérard Larrousse, originally under the name Larrousse & Calmels. It was based in Antony, in the southern suburbs of Paris. It was renamed Larrousse after the departure of Calmels for legal reasons. The team competed in Formula One from 1987 to 1994 before succumbing to financial problems, scoring a best finish of third at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix during this time.
Larrousse & Calmels commissioned a car from Lola and the result was the LC87 (internal Lola designation: T87/30), a car designed by Eric Broadley and Ralph Bellamy. The chassis was powered by a Cosworth DFZ V8 engine, and was entered in the undersubscribed normally aspirated class.
The team started out in 1987 with just one car for Philippe Alliot, with Yannick Dalmas joining the team in a second car the end of the year. By that time they had agreed to a three-year deal with Lola and Chris Murphy was recruited from Zakspeed to help Bellamy. The team then did a deal to run Lamborghini V12 engines in 1989.
In September 1988 the team hired former Renault and Lotus designer/engineer Gérard Ducarouge but in the spring of 1989, Calmels had to quit the team because of legal issues. As a result, the team became known simply as Larrousse.
For the 1989 season Alliot stayed on but Dalmas, who had been ill with Legionnaires' disease, was dropped after Canada and replaced by rookie French driver Éric Bernard and later by Michele Alboreto, who had recently left Tyrrell. At the end of the year, Larrousse sold 50% of his shares to the Japanese Espo Corporation, and Aguri Suzuki was hired to partner Bernard for the 1990 season. At the same time the team moved from Antony to new premises at Signes in the south of France near the Paul Ricard Circuit.
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