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The engine of the FA1L was the old Alfa Romeo 890T turbo engine that had been introduced to Formula One in 1983.Osella had been using Alfa turbo power since 1984, but had scored only two points with the engine over five seasons when Piercarlo Ghinzani had finished fifth in the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix.
The Alfa Romeo 890T (1988: Osella 890T) was a turbocharged racing engine used in the Formula One World Championship from 1983 to 1988 by Alfa Romeo's works team, as well as by Osella. The designation "890T" follows the nomenclature used by Alfa Romeo since the 1960s and reflects two of the key design features of the engine: the number of ...
In the mid-1980s, Osella was the beneficiary of factory Alfa Romeo engines, both in naturally-aspirated (1983–84) and turbo (1984–88) forms. The Alfa engine program helped the team to survive the increasingly professional turbo era but it failed to improve its competitiveness. The Alfa turbo engine, the 890T, was not reliable. Turbos blew ...
Larini's failure to qualify in the Osella turbo, reportedly the most powerful used in Grand Prix racing in 1988, highlighted the problems the Osella team had with both the ancient Alfa Romeo 890T engine (badged as "Osella V8" for the year after Alfa's parent company Fiat pulled their support) and their car, the FA1L, in 1988 which was ...
Pages in category "Alfa Romeo engines" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alfa Romeo 690 engine;
The car had a 1.5 L V8 turbo engine, which produced around 680 hp (507 kW) at 10700 rpm, [2] was Mario Tollentino's first F1 design, [3] and it used the Alfa Romeo 890T engine. When the 890T engine was introduced in 1983, it had comparable power to the BMW, Renault and Ferrari turbo engines which at times saw lead driver Andrea de Cesaris able ...
Alfa Romeo Benetton: Alfa Romeo: 185T 184TB: Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8 t: G: 22 Riccardo Patrese: All 23 Eddie Cheever: All Kelémata Osella Osella-Alfa Romeo: FA1F FA1G Alfa Romeo 890T 1.5 V8 t: P: 24 Piercarlo Ghinzani: 1–8 Huub Rothengatter: 9–16 Équipe Ligier Équipe Ligier Gitanes: Ligier-Renault: JS25: Renault EF4B 1.5 V6 t: P: 25 ...
But 5% of the engine power was needed to run the computer-controlled system properly and, with the weight of the system, it made the already underpowered Judd V8 sluggish compared to its rivals. Osella kept using the Alfa Romeo 890T V8 turbo, but without factory support from the Italians, re-badged it as the "Osella V8". It produced around 700 ...