1983 RAM March 01

This is one of the photographs I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the 1983 RAM March 01 that the RAM team campaigned in the 1983 season and has a 2,993 cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. The board next to the car reads as follows:

1983 RAM Racing March

RAM Racing was a Formula One racing team which

competed during the racing seasons of 1976 to 1985.

The team entered other manufacturers’ chassis from

1976 to 1980, then ran March’s team from 1981 to

1983, only entering a car entirely their own in 1984 and

1985.

1983 saw the RAM name make itself onto the chassis

for the first time, with David Kelly’s RAM March 01

design. Salazar returned to drive the main entry, while a

second car for Jean-Louis Schlesser was fielded at the

French Grand Prix as a one-off. Salazar scored a 15th

place in the season opener, but the bulky car struggled

to qualify. Financial reasons saw the team skip the

Detroit Grand Prix, while they only made the Canadian

Grand Prix due to fielding local driver Jacques

Villeneuve Sr. and attracting some Canadian

Sponsorship. Kenny Acheson then took over for the rest

of the season, only qualifying once, at the season-

closing South African Grand Prix, where he took the

team's best result of the year, 12th and last.