15 Facts About Scuderia Coloni

Coloni Motorsport, known as Scuderia Coloni, was an auto racing team from Italy.

Scuderia Coloni competed during the 1970s and after participating in the Italian Formula 3 series for several years, he won the drivers' title in 1982 when he was 36 years old.

In 1986, Scuderia Coloni Motorsport appeared in Formula 3000, entering an out-dated March 85B with drivers like Nicola Larini and Gabriele Tarquini.

Enzo Scuderia Coloni Racing Car Systems made its first appearance in Formula One at the 1987 Italian Grand Prix in September 1987.

Scuderia Coloni himself had carried out the shake-down drive but Nicola Larini was the race driver.

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In Canada, Scuderia Coloni presented a new car which was penned by former AGS engineer Christian Vanderpleyn.

Scuderia Coloni did not finish the race as the engine blew up after a handful of laps.

Early in 1990, a handful of Enzo Scuderia Coloni's mechanics worked on a single C3 and tried to put the Subaru engine in it.

The "new" Scuderia Coloni C3C was little more than a 1989 C3 with minor aerodynamic changes.

Enzo Scuderia Coloni had hoped for Andrea de Cesaris as his first driver, with his sponsorship from Marlboro.

Scuderia Coloni handed his single car to newcomer Pedro Chaves from Portugal who had just won the British Formula 3000 series in 1990.

Scuderia Coloni Motorsport made the switch to International Formula 3000 in 1997.

Scuderia Coloni was joined by Turkey's Jason Tahincioglu, who brought sponsorship from Petrol Ofisi.

At the following round of the championship, Scuderia Coloni's cars were impounded as a result of an injunction obtained by Soucek as part of his dispute with the team in its FMSI guise.

At the Silverstone round of the 2012 GP2 championship, series organisers and Scuderia Coloni announced that the team would leave the series at the end of the 2012 season, and that the team would forfeit all of their points they had received to date and would receive for the remainder of the season.