For experienced fans who have been following Formula 1 since the early 1990s, Michael Schumacher’s first successes are not associated with the color red, but with the characteristic bright yellow-green color scheme that distinguished Benetton’s cars at the time.
One of those famous cars will be brought to Australia, where the Adelaide Motorsport Festival, a traditional motorsport festival, will be held next month. We wrote that Valtteri Bottas and Günther Steiner, now the former head of the Haas F1 team, will participate in this motorsport festival.
The historic Benetton B193B, driven in the championship more than thirty years ago by Michael Schumacher and his then teammate Riccardo Patrese, will certainly attract public attention. Now there is a rapid rejuvenation of the Formula 1 audience, and many modern fans at the beginning of the 1990s were not even born yet or were at a very young age, so the equipment of that time could only be seen on photographs or in archive video footage. .
It was in this car that Schumacher won the Portuguese Grand Prix – that year the future seven-time world champion only managed 4th place in the individual competition, but it is significant that Michael, who was then only spending his second full season in Formula 1, scored more than twice as many points as the more experienced Patrese.
The B193B is not the only Benetton car in a very rich collection of historic vehicles that will be demonstrated at the festival: the public will also see the earlier B190 chassis – in 1990 Nelson Piquet won the Australian Grand Prix with it , which was held in Adelaide.
“Schumacher’s Benetton is an absolutely iconic car with an incredibly rich history,” said Tim Possingham, festival director. – These cars are only seen on the track a few times a year and mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, for example in places like Goodwood.
We are very happy that our motorsport festival can also surprise the public with such cars. The distance from Europe, where they are mainly located, poses serious problems for us, but we are happy that every year more and more such equipment can be found at our festival.”
The Benetton B193B chassis was developed by Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne from the previous year’s B192, but the design was revised to meet the requirements of the new technical regulations: the car was 15 cm narrower.
The chassis, built in Enstone, was powered by a Ford Cosworth HB V8 engine with a displacement of 3.5 liters. This was the last year in which cars were equipped with traction control systems, ABS brakes, etc. active suspension. Gearboxes were already semi-automatic back then.
The race show in Adelaide will take place on March 16 and 17, a week before the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
Source: F1 News
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