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Arrows FA1

Riccardo Patrese driving the FA1 at the 1978 British Grand Prix

Design

The FA1 was in reality a Shadow DN9, which Tony Southgate had designed for Shadow whilst working as a consultant for them. Southgate mistakenly believed that because he had designed the Shadow DN9 whilst working as a consultant (and not a Shadow employee) that he owned the intellectual rights to the Shadow DN9 design. Based on this misconception Arrows built the FA1, which was essentially a carbon copy of the DN9.

Banning

The FA1 was banned by the London High Courts partway through the 1978 season after a legal protest from the Shadow team, on the grounds was a blatant copy of the DN9. The judgement handed down ruled that over 70% of the FA1 was identical to the DN9 and that all four Arrows FA1's should be broken up by Arrows and their parts handed over to the Shadow team.

Knowing it would lose the case, Arrows hurriedly designed and built a new car, the A1, whilst the court case was being heard and did not miss a race.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Points	WCC
1978	Arrows Racing Team	Ford Cosworth DFV	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	MON	BEL	ESP	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	11	10th
				Riccardo Patrese		10	Ret	6	6	Ret	Ret	2	8	Ret	9
				Rolf Stommelen			9	9	Ret	Ret	14	14	15	DNQ	DSQ

^1 3 points scored using the A1.

References

Arrows FA1 @ StatsF1
"CONSTRUCTORS: ARROWS GRAND PRIX". GrandPrix.com. Retrieved 12 August 2011.

Arrows

Arrows Grand Prix International (1978–1990)

Notable personnel: Franco Ambrosio; Alan Rees; Jackie Oliver; Tony Southgate; David Wass

Notable drivers: ITA Mauro Baldi; Austria Gerhard Berger; BEL Thierry Boutsen; ITA Alex Caffi; USA Eddie Cheever; FRG Christian Danner; GBR Martin Donnelly; GBR Brian Henton; Australia Alan Jones; FRG Jochen Mass; ITA Riccardo Patrese; FRG Bernd Schneider; BRA Chico Serra; ITA Siegfried Stohr; SWI Marc Surer; FRG Rolf Stommelen; New Zealand Mike Thackwell; CAN Jacques Villeneuve Sr.; GBR Derek Warwick; FRG Manfred Winkelhock

Cars: FA1; A1; A2; A3; A4; A5; A6; A7; A8; A9; A10; A10B; A11; A11B

Japan Footwork Arrows (1991–1996)

Notable personnel: Alan Jenkins; Wataru Ohashi; Jackie Oliver; Mark Preston

Notable drivers: ITA Michele Alboreto; ITA Alex Caffi; BRA Christian Fittipaldi; JPN Taki Inoue; ITA Gianni Morbidelli; ITA Max Papis; BRA Ricardo Rosset; JPN Aguri Suzuki; Netherlands Jos Verstappen; GBR Derek Warwick

Cars: A11C; FA12; FA12C; FA13; FA13B; FA14; FA15; FA16; FA17

TWR Arrows (1997–2002)

Notable personnel: Nick Chester; Mike Coughlan; Chris Dyer; Eghbal Hamidy; Laurent Mekies; Steve Nielsen; Ossi Oikarinen; Nicolò Petrucci; Mark Preston; Sergio Rinland; Rob Taylor; Tom Walkinshaw; John Walton

Notable drivers: BRA Enrique Bernoldi; SPA Pedro de la Rosa; BRA Pedro Diniz; GBR Damon Hill; GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen; FIN Mika Salo; Japan Toranosuke Takagi; Netherlands Jos Verstappen

Cars: A18; A19; A20; A21; A22; A23

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