Car Name: | Arrows A7 |
Category: | Formula One |
Constructor: | Arrows |
Designer: | Dave Wass |
Predecessor: | A6 |
Successor: | A8 |
Team: | Barclay Nordica Arrows BMW |
Drivers: | 17. Marc Surer 18. Thierry Boutsen |
Technical Ref: | [1] |
Chassis: | Aluminium monocoque |
Front Suspension: | Double wishbones, push-rod dampers |
Rear Suspension: | Double wishbones |
Wheelbase: | 2667NaN |
Track: | Front: 1727NaN Rear: 1600NaN |
Engine Name: | BMW M12/13, |
Configuration: | Straight 4, |
Capacity: | 14991NaN1, |
Turbo/Na: | turbo, |
Engine Position: | mid-engine, longitudinally mounted |
Gearbox Name: | Arrows / Hewland |
Gears: | 5-speed |
Type: | manual |
Fuel: | Valvoline |
Tyres: | Goodyear |
Debut: | 1984 Belgian Grand Prix |
Last Event: | 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix |
Races: | 14 |
Cons Champ: | 0 |
Drivers Champ: | 0 |
Wins: | 0 |
Poles: | 0 |
Fastest Laps: | 0 |
The Arrows A7 was a Formula One car which the Arrows team used to compete in the 1984 Formula One season. The car made its debut at the 1984 Belgian Grand Prix held that year at Zolder. Driven by versatile Swiss fast man Marc Surer and Belgian Thierry Boutsen, the A7 scored only 3 points when Boutsen and Surer finished 5th and 6th respectively in the 1984 Austrian Grand Prix.
The A7 was the team's first time running a turbocharged engine. This was the same powerful BMW M12 Straight 4 which was also used by the Brabham team, though unlike Brabham who had BMW engineers looking after their engines, the Arrows engines were maintained and developed by Swiss engine guru Heini Mader. This left Arrows with around 8000NaN0 while the factory units were developing around 9000NaN0
in the 9/1984 Sport Auto they found the Arrows A7 had a performance of:
0 - 40 kph | 1.1 s | |
0 - 60 kph | 1.8 s | |
0 - 80 kph | 2.4 s | |
0 - 100 kph | 3.1 s | |
0 - 120 kph | 3.8 s | |
0 - 140 kph | 4.7 s | |
0 - 180 kph | 5.8 s | |
0 - 200 kph | 6.4 s | |
1000 m | 16.6 s |
(key)
Year | Entrant | Engine | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Points | WCC |
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Barclay Nordica Arrows BMW | BMW M12/13 S4 tc | BRA | RSA | BEL | SMR | FRA | MON | CAN | DET | DAL | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | EUR | POR | 3 | 11th | |||
Thierry Boutsen | Ret | 11 | DNQ | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 5 | Ret | 10 | 9 | Ret | |||||||||
Marc Surer | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | 6 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret |