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Oto Ferrari przygotowane do wyścigu Indy Car:
Ferrari’s Austrian-born designer, Gustav Brunner, (now technical director of the Toyota Formula One team) was assigned to “reverse engineer” the March and combine the redesigned chassis with a V8 turbo to create the Ferrari “Formula Indy” car.
In March 1987, the motoring press was invited to Fiorano, Ferrari’s private test track, for a demonstration run, with the car being driven by the late Michele Alboreto of Ferrari’s Formula One team. But then John Barnard was hired away from McLaren by Ferrari to be its new chief designer, and he directed that the V8 turbo Indianapolis project be put on the back burner while he focused on Ferrari’s Formula One car.
So when the Indianapolis 500 was run on May 24, 1987, the Ferrari V8 turbo Formula Indy was not in the field, and when Enzo Ferrari died on Aug. 14, 1988, the dream of winning at Indianapolis seemed to have died with him.
Although the car never made it to Indianapolis, it is still called the Ferrari Formula Indy and is on display in the Galleria, a museum in Maranello that is affiliated with the Ferrari factory and is devoted to the preservation of Ferrari race cars of all kinds.
The 2.65-liter, V8 turbo engine developed in the course of this Indy project did not go to waste as it formed the basis for the Alfa Romeo engine introduced into Indy-style racing in the 1990 Indianapolis 500, as the powerplant in the March-Alfa Romeo cars owned by Pat Patrick and driven by Al Unser and Roberto Guerrero.
