Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives ("AGS" or Gonfaron Sports Cars) was a small French Formula One constructor from 1986 through 1991. It took part in various racing classes over more than 30 years. Gonfaron is a small hillside town in Provence, southern France. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The following is a list of constructors which have competed or plan to compete in the Formula One World Championship. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Foundation

The team was founded by the French mechanic, Henri Julien, who ran a filling station - the "Garage de l´avenir" in a picturesque provincial village called Gonfaron. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Julien regularly attended racing events in minor classes. He was a mediocre driver but showed a degree of technical knowledge. As a result, he eventually changed his attraction to constructing racing cars. A Mechanic is a person who fixes things (generally machinery) or works to keeps things operating properly. ... Henri Julien (1852-1908) was born in Quebec City but in 1869 he moved with his family to Montreal where he apprenticed for an engraving firm and later became an artist and cartoonist for the Canadian Illustrated News. ... Modern filling station A filling station, gas station or petrol station is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants for road motor vehicles. ... Gonfaron is a small hillside town in Provence, southern France. ...

First Car

His first car, the AGS JH1, saw the light of day in 1969. It was a petite monoposto, dedicated to the "Formule France". The car was designed by Julien's former apprentice, the Belgian mechanic Christian Vanderpleyn who had been with the garage (and the racing team) since the very late 1950s and who would stay on until 1988! Soon, AGS went ahead and produced its own Formula 3 cars which were ambitious but not good enough to compete seriously with the state-of-art Martinis which dominated that series in the 1970s. Modern Formula One Renault 1993 Indy Car Open wheel car is a term for cars, usually purpose built racecars, with the wheels located outside the cars main body, as distinct from cars which have their wheels below the body or fenders, in the manner of most street cars, stock... Formula Three is a class of auto racing. ...

Formula 2

AGS took another step ahead in 1978 when the it team bravely started competing in the European Formula 2. Still, the car - by now the AGS JH15 - was self-penned (by Vanderpleyn), self-built and self-run. Formula 2 was a difficult task for the small team, racing 1978 and 1979 without scoring any championship points. The early 1980s were somewhat better. AGS was one of the few teams who ran its own cars (Maurer, Minardi and Merzario were the others), and eventually the team was able to score points regularly. Soon some victories came, too. AGS made history when works driver Philippe Streiff won the final race of Formula 2 in 1984, using an AGS JH 19C. While Formula One has generally been regarded as the pinnacle of open-wheeled auto racing, the high performance nature of the cars and the expense involved in the series has always meant that there has needed to be a path to reach this peak. ... Philippe Streiff (b. ...

Formula 3000

In 1985, AGS switched to Formula 3000 but Julien was not content with regulation and organisation of the new series, so he started thinking about taking another step ahead into top class motor racing.

Formula 1

By late summer 1986, it was done: AGS entered the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, its very first Formula 1 race. The structure was somewhat bizarre: The team had no more than 7 employees and was still operated from the garage de l´avenir in Gonfaron. Compare this to the situation at Williams, McLaren or Ferrari which had even in those days had gigantic facilities! The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the motor racing calendar. ... Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is a motorsport race track near the town of Monza, Italy, north of Milan. ... Ralf Schumacher driving for the WilliamsF1 team at the 2003 United States Grand Prix WilliamsF1, formerly Williams Grand Prix Engineering, is a Formula One racing team formed and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. ... McLaren, founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren (1937–1970), is a racing team based in Woking, England, which is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, Canadian-American Challenge Cup, and 24 Hours of Le Mans. ... The current Ferrari logo Ferrari is an Italian car manufacturer in the Formula One World Championship, also involved in high-end and high-performance race cars, supercars, and sports cars. ...

AGS appeared with a car that was once again penned by Vanderpleyn. The JH21C was a strange mixture between former AGS 3000 vehicles and Renault Formula 1 parts which were used extensively. The car was powered by a well-used Motori Moderni Turbo engine (the only time these Carlo Chiti-developed engines were given to a customer team) and driven by newcomer Ivan Capelli. A few weeks before, the car had been tested by Didier Pironi who made his first step in a F1 car since his awful accident in 1982. Due to technical difficulties, neither in its first attempt nor in the following race in Portugal did Capelli see the finish. Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors and trucks. ... Ivan Capelli: former F-1 driver, born in Milan, Italy, on May 24, 1963. ... Didier Pironi (March 26, 1952 - August 23, 1987) was a Formula One driver from France. ...

In 1987, the car which was otherwise much the same as before was prepared to use a normally aspirated Cosworth DFZ. Team driver Pascal Fabre was a newcomer. He was reliable but awfully slow. Things went better in the last two races of the season when Fabre was replaced with the Brasilian Roberto Moreno (who saw his first chance in Formula 1 since 1982 when he had failed to qualify a Lotus works car). In Adelaide, Moreno scored the first championship point for AGS which finished the season equal to the well-situated Ligier team. In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies the release of some stop consonants. ... For other uses, see Brazil (disambiguation). ... Roberto Moreno (born Roberto Pupo Moreno, February 11th, 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former Formula One driver from Brazil. ... Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, England. ... Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ...

Takeover

In 1988, AGS started with a new car and Philippe Streiff as the teams only driver. Steiff drove quite powerfully and qualified well, but he saw the chequered flag only four times; in all the other events of that year technical failures or accidents had to be recorded. Financially, the year started well and ended with a disaster. AGS had a solid sponsor - the French Bouygues group - which promised to support not only the racing activity but also the erection of a new factory outside Gonfaron. After AGS had started to work on the new facility, Bouygues withdraw from the team, leaving Julien without any support. To save the team, he eventually had to sell it to Cyril de Rouvre, a French entrepreneur with various ambitions. An erection of the penis occurs when two tubular structures that run the length of the penis, the corpora cavernosa, become engorged with venous blood. ...

Difficulties

Things went from bad to worse. The new team management changed frequently (Vanderpleyn for instance went to Coloni) and brought a lot of disorder. Worse was to come; Streiff was paralysed in a testing accident in Brazil before the 1989 season. In the second part of the 1989 season, the team had to prequalify - a task that was nearly never done by Gabriele Tarquini (who had replaced Streiff after his near-fatal accident in Brasil) and Yannick Dalmas. Within the summer months, there were strong rumours that AGS would soon use a new W-12-engine devloped by the French designer Guy Nègre. This strange MGN (Moteurs Guy Nègre) machine was saw the light of day in late 1988 and was tested in an old AGS-chassis in the summer of 1989. It it clear that AGS was not related to these tests; they were completely private attempts by Nègre. The engine never found its way to a Grand Prix but it was announced to be used in a 1990 Le Mans car called Norma M6. That car was presented but never raced. Le Mans is a city in France, located at the Sarthe River. ...

Finally, AGS had to use Cosworth engines again in 1990. That year brought no improvement at all, and by the beginning of the 1991 season the team was obviously close to its end. The team lacked money. (At the first 1991 Grand Prix the mechanics didn´t even have some money to buy a lunch.) De Rouvre sold his team to some Italian entrepreneurs, Patrizio Cantù and Gabriele Raffanelli. Both changed little except for the driver line-up (Stefan Johansson was needlessly replaced with newcomer Fabrizio Barbazza) and the colours of the car (which now where blue-red-yellow instead of white). A new car was shown in the early autumn, but by then the team was in rags again, so the Italians closed the doors after the Portuguese Grand Prix. The first Portuguese Grand Prix was held on the Boavista street course in Oporto on 14 August 1958, followed in 1959 by a grand prix at Monsanto Park, Lisbon. ...

AGS survived as a prosperous Formula 1 driving school (in Le Luc, near Gonfaron) and finally produced a new formula 1 car in 2002. The Garage de l´ Avenir is still in existence, too. Le Luc is a commune of the Var département, in France. ...

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External link

• AGS Formule 1