1979 Arrows A2

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of the Formula 1 World Championship, which started with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950. There was a display of a representative selection of Formula 1 cars from those 50 years and here's one which saw action in 1979.

It's the Arrows A2 that replaced the A1 for the latter part of the 1979 season and was driven by Riccardo Patrese and Jochen Mass, but was no more successful than the A1. The car was designed by Tony Southgate and David Wass and was powered by the 2,993cc V8 Cosworth DFV engine. Jochen Mass managed two sixth place finishes with the car, and together with a sixth place finish earlier in the season with the Arrows A1 this gave him 3 points and 18th place in the World Drivers' Championship. Riccardo Patrese didn't have a points-scoring finish with the A2, but a fifth place finish in Belgium in the A1 gave him 2 points and 19th place in the Championship. Arrows finished the season in 9th place in the World Constructors' Championship.