User:Saveferris888/EuroBrun ER188

The ER188 was a Formula One car built and raced by the EuroBrun team for the 1988 Formula One season. The car was designed by Mario Tolentino and was powered by a normally aspirated Cosworth DFZ engine. Three ER188 chassis were produced.

Two cars cars were entered for Formula 3000 champion Stefano Modena and long-time Brun stalwart Oscar Larrauri.

Despite a solid if unspectacular start to the season, EuroBrun were struggling as money ran low. There was internal trouble when in May 1988 Brun unsuccessfully tried to replace Larrauri with Christian Danner. It turned out that the German driver was to tall for the monocoque of EuroBrun. Since the team had no money for any modification, it kept Larrauri in the second car to the end of the season. In the first eight events Larrauri only missed the cut twice and Modena would have qualified for them all were it not for two disqualifications for missing a weight check in Monaco and for having too high a rear wing in Mexico. Sadly starts didn’t materialise into finishes, with engine failures, clutch and gearbox problems, and even a flat battery meaning that Modena's 11th place at the Hungarian Grand Prix would be the cars best result.

At the end of the season in December the team entered a ER188 for Fabrizio Barbazza at the inaugural Bologna Motor show F1 sprint. Barbazza was knocked out in the first round by the Minardi of Luis Perez Sala.

ER188B
For the 1989 Formula One season the car was updated to ER188B specification and used a Judd CV V8 engine and Pirelli tyres. The team entered just one car for rookie Gregor Foitek

Foitek would only make it through Friday pre-qualifying once, at the first race in Brazil but he failed to qualify for the race.

The replacement ER189 designed by George Ryton was introduced at the German Grand Prix.

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