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F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Amon (229 words) |
 | At the end of the year Amon left the Italian organization and announced that he was starting his own Formula 1 team and would build a car for the 1974 season. |
| Amon financed much of the project himself although additional backing came from John Dalton and Gordon Fowell was commissioned to design the Amon-Ford AF101. |
| Amon qualified 23rd ahead of a couple of cars but retired with brake problems at one-quarter distance. |
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Chris Amon at AllExperts (3036 words) |
| Amon was teamed with the very-experienced Maurice Trintignant for the first race of the season at Monaco and his Grand Prix career started with what was to become typical bad luck: Trintignant's Climax developed a misfire, so he took over Amon's car. |
| Amon drove for Cooper at the French GP and was scheduled to drive for them for the rest of the season, until the more successful John Surtees left Ferrari to join Cooper and Amon found himself dropped. |
| Amon's close second place from a third-place start at the Belgian GP, finally gave the March team their first Championship points, but after qualifying fourth for the next race, the Dutch GP, his car's clutch broke after just one lap. |
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