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Tuesday, February 27
Preview: Arrows
Reuters

LONDON -- Following are facts and figures about the Arrows team ahead of the 2001 Formula One season:

2001 Outlook

One of the most improved teams last season but something of an unknown quantity in 2001. Well-sponsored Brazilian Enrique Bernoldi has been drafted in alongside Dutchman Jos Verstappen to replace Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa. The new AMT engine is a development of the troublesome Peugeot used by Prost without scoring a point last season. Arrows want a top five or six finish but need reliability first and foremost.

Based: Leafield, England.

Team principal: Tom Walkinshaw

Drivers:
Jos Verstappen (Netherlands), 28 (born March 4, 1972)
Enrique Bernoldi (Brazil), 22 (October 19, 1978)

Test driver: Johnny Herbert (Britain), 36 (June 27, 1964)

Car: Arrows A22, powered by AMT V10.
Tires: Bridgestone.
Technical director: Mike Coughlan.

Formula One record:
Starts 354, poles 1 (Riccardo Patrese (Italy), USA-West, 1981), wins 0
First GP entered: Brazil 1978.

Arrows hold the Formula One record for number of races contested by a team without a single win.

2000 season (Verstappen/Pedro de la Rosa): seventh, seven points. No wins. fourth x1, fifth x1, sixth x2, seventh x1, eighth x2, 12th x1, 13th x1, 14th x1, 15th x1, 16th x2. retired x 20, no start x1.

Team history
1977 - Arrows Racing Team founded.
1978 - Formula One debut, Riccardo Patrese leads in second race (South Africa) before retiring.
1986 - Ross Brawn arrives as designer.
1989 - Footwork buy team.
1990 - Ross Brawn leaves.
1994 - Team changes name back to Arrows.
1996 - Walkinshaw takes control of team.
1997 - John Barnard appointed technical director.
1998 - Barnard leaves for Prost.

Season by season (year, standing, points, drivers):
1978 - ninth equal, 11 (Riccardo Patrese/Rolf Stommelen)
1979 - ninth, 5 (Patrese/Jochen Mass).
1980 - seventh equal, 11 (Patrese/Mass).
1981 - eighth equal, 10 (Patrese/Siegfried Stohr)
1982 - 10th, 5 (Mauro Baldi/Brian Henton/Marc Surer)
1983 - 10th, 4 (Surer/Chico Serra/Thierry Boutsen)
1984 - ninth, six (Surer/Boutsen).
1985 - eighth, 14 (Boutsen/Gerhard Berger).
1986 - 10th, 1 (Surer/Boutsen/Christian Danner)
1987 - sixth equal, 11 (Derek Warwick/Eddie Cheever)
1988 - fourth equal, 23 (Warwick/Cheever)
1989 - seventh, 13 (Warwick/Cheever/Martin Donnelly)
1990 - ninth equal, 2 (Michele Alboreto/Ivan Capelli)
1991 - no points (Alboreto/Alex Caffi/Stefan Johansson)
1992 - (as Footwork) seventh equal, six. (Alboreto/Aguri Suzuki)
1993 - (as Footwork) ninth, four (Warwick/Suzuki)
1994 - (as Footwork) ninth, nine (Christian Fittipaldi/Gianni Morbidelli)
1995 - (as Footwork) eighth equal, five (Morbidelli/Taki Inoue/Massimiliano Papis)
1996 - (as Footwork) ninth, one (Ricardo Rosset/Jos Verstappen).
1997 - eighth, nine (Damon Hill/Pedro Diniz).
1998 - seventh, six (Diniz/Mika Salo)
1999 - ninth, one (Pedro de la Rosa, Tora Takagi)

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