Ekström Racing

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Ekström Racing

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No, we're not talking about a current DTM driver. Here's yet another, too short-lived, foray into Formula 1.

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That's pretty much everything I found about them. They were an (utterly unsuccessful) Swiss-based, Swedish-backed Formula 3000 team, supposed to debut in Formula 1 at the San Marino GP with a Motori Moderni-engined car. Ms. Ekström had contacted Mauro Baldi for a drive, but the Italian's sponsors refused to pay anything before seeing a ready-to-race car. That wasn't to happen. Apparently she tried to buy a couple of old RAM 03 chassis - after failing to secure either materials or sponsorship, she basically closed everything down overnight...only to come back again the following year, aiming to buy out some assets from Beatrice-Lola. She failed again.

Does anyone here have more infos about them?

EDIT: The woman apparently had at the time a professional and romantic relationship with Georg Paulin, a mysterious Swiss driver and businessman who notably try to buy out Pacific in 1995. In that occasion, he had already contacted former Formula Ford frontrunner Dave Coyne, whom he raced with in a "Geepee Argo" car in the 1992 500 km of Monza.
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I have a couple of old Vauhdin Maailma magazines from 1986 that mention the team. However, they are at my parents' so I can't access them at the moment. What I recall though, there wasn't much more if at all info than what you've got.
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novitopoli wrote:Does anyone here have more infos about them?.

I thought I had heard of this team on this forum before. And I had!

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1385&p=37688&hilit=ekstrom#p37688

(Quite a few posts - keep going to f1-gast's post.)
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