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2000 Arrows-Supertec A21
I must admit, I wasn't expecting to find anything like this at 11.30PM on a Sunday night in an airport Departures building!
Pictured is a 2000 Arrows-Supertec (Renault) A21 Grand Prix car. It was driven in 2000 by Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa and Dutchman Jos Verstappen.
After a couple of lacklustre seasons using their own in-house engines Arrows went into 2000 with a supply of Supertec-badged Renault V10 engines.
From being stuck at the tail of the field the team suddenly found itself catapulted into the midfield and was usually amongst the quickest cars through the speed traps.
Although quick, the cars were also unreliable. Both drivers would score points on two occasions, Verstappen finishing fifth in a wet Canadian Grand Prix and a season's best fourth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
De la Rosa finished sixth in the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring and matched that result in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim later in the season, scoring a solitary point on each occasion.
The car pictured above is Chassis 2 and acted as the spare car for the first twelve rounds but was raced during the final three races of the season.
Chassis 2 was due to be raced in the Monaco Grand Prix following an accident during qualifying for de la Rosa's race car. However, the Spaniard crashed the car during the Sunday morning warm-up session and had to revert to the repaired race car, leaving the team without a spare for the race.
Unfortunately, the Spaniard was involved in a first lap collision and his day's work was over there and then due to a lack of a spare car!
The car was rested after the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend but a first lap accident for de la Rosa in Italy saw a race chassis written off.
Chassis 2 was dusted off and appeared at the United States Grand Prix as the race car for de la Rosa. The car qualified eighteenth but retired after half-distance with gearbox failure.
De la Rosa qualified the car thirteenth for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and would finish the race a lapped twelfth.
The final race of the season didn't last long for car or driver with de la Rosa being involved in a first lap collision at the second corner.
Verstappen and de la Rosa would finish twelfth and equal-fifteenth, respectively, in the Drivers Championship with Arrows seventh in the Constructors standings.
Pictured in September 2019 at Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium.
2000 Arrows-Supertec A21
I must admit, I wasn't expecting to find anything like this at 11.30PM on a Sunday night in an airport Departures building!
Pictured is a 2000 Arrows-Supertec (Renault) A21 Grand Prix car. It was driven in 2000 by Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa and Dutchman Jos Verstappen.
After a couple of lacklustre seasons using their own in-house engines Arrows went into 2000 with a supply of Supertec-badged Renault V10 engines.
From being stuck at the tail of the field the team suddenly found itself catapulted into the midfield and was usually amongst the quickest cars through the speed traps.
Although quick, the cars were also unreliable. Both drivers would score points on two occasions, Verstappen finishing fifth in a wet Canadian Grand Prix and a season's best fourth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
De la Rosa finished sixth in the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring and matched that result in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim later in the season, scoring a solitary point on each occasion.
The car pictured above is Chassis 2 and acted as the spare car for the first twelve rounds but was raced during the final three races of the season.
Chassis 2 was due to be raced in the Monaco Grand Prix following an accident during qualifying for de la Rosa's race car. However, the Spaniard crashed the car during the Sunday morning warm-up session and had to revert to the repaired race car, leaving the team without a spare for the race.
Unfortunately, the Spaniard was involved in a first lap collision and his day's work was over there and then due to a lack of a spare car!
The car was rested after the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend but a first lap accident for de la Rosa in Italy saw a race chassis written off.
Chassis 2 was dusted off and appeared at the United States Grand Prix as the race car for de la Rosa. The car qualified eighteenth but retired after half-distance with gearbox failure.
De la Rosa qualified the car thirteenth for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and would finish the race a lapped twelfth.
The final race of the season didn't last long for car or driver with de la Rosa being involved in a first lap collision at the second corner.
Verstappen and de la Rosa would finish twelfth and equal-fifteenth, respectively, in the Drivers Championship with Arrows seventh in the Constructors standings.
Pictured in September 2019 at Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium.