Leyton House Racing
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| Full name | Leyton House Formula One Racing Team |
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| Base | Bicester, UK |
| Founder(s) | Akira Akagi |
| Noted staff |
Adrian Newey Gustav Brunner |
| Noted drivers |
 Maurício Gugelmin Ivan Capelli Karl Wendlinger
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1990 United States Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 32 |
| Constructors' Championships |
0 |
| Drivers' Championships |
0 |
| Race victories | 0 (best finish: 2nd, 1990 French Grand Prix) |
| Pole positions | 0 (best grid position: 7th, 1990 French Grand Prix and 1991 Portuguese Grand Prix) |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Final entry | 1991 Australian Grand Prix |
Leyton House Racing was a Formula One constructor that raced in the 1990 and 1991 seasons.
It was, in essence, a rebranding of the March team which returned to F1 in 1987. Leyton House, a Japanese real estate company, had been the team's marquee sponsor since that year, and went on to buy the team in 1989. Drivers Ivan Capelli and Maurício Gugelmin, who had both been driving for the March team from 1987 to 1989, continued on with the team under its new guise.
1990 proved to be a disaster from the beginning. The Leyton House CG901 chassis was unreliable and through the first six races of the season, the team had failed to score a single point and had failed to qualify numerous times; both Gugelmin and Capelli recorded DNQs for the Brazilian and Mexican Grands Prix (with Gugelmin also failing to qualify for the Monaco and the Canadian races). However at the race after the Mexico disaster, the French Grand Prix both cars not only qualified, but ran first and second for a period until Gugelmin's engine blew. Capelli actually led for much of the remainder of the race, before being caught by the eventual winner Alain Prost; still Capelli finished second, his only points finish and the team's only podium finish of the season. Gugelmin scored his only points of the season (and the last of his Formula 1 career) in the 1990 Belgian Grand Prix, leaving Capelli in the hated 7th place.
Off the track, managing director Ian Phillips contracted meningitis and left his post after the Brazilian Grand Prix. Team manager Harry Mandel also resigned and technical director Adrian Newey was fired. Several other engineers, brought over from March Engineering, also departed that year.
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