COLONI C3B - 1990 F1 SEASON - Unisex Hoodie
The team entered the first eight races of the 1990 season with the C3B. The car was powered by the Subaru 1235 engine. In reality this was just a boxer twelve cylinder Motori Moderni engine but renamed to Subaru. The engine was a terrible one, but the concept behind it was good, so much so that Subaru went on to use a boxer twelve cylinder engine later on in their Subaru rally cars, with Colin McRae scoring great results with it. Bertrand Gachot failed to pre-qualify the C3B in every race resulting in a frustrated team and a frustrated driver. During the German Grand Prix that year Coloni introduced the C3C, an evolution of the C3B. In reality the only thing that had changed between the two cars was the engine. The Coloni was now powered by a Ford DFR V8. But even though the team now had a reliable engine in their car, for the first three races the C3C was too slow to advance from the pre-qualifying sessions. During the Belgian Grand Prix Bertrand managed to pre-qualify the car, which