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ArrowsThe Arrows Formula One Team was founded in 1977, by Italian financier Franco Ambrosio (A), Alan Rees (R), Jackie Oliver (O), Dave Wass (W) and Tony Southgate (S) when Rees, Oliver, Wass and Southgate left the Shadow team. The team was started in Milton Keynes, England and produced their first car in just 53 days. Arrows signed up Ricardo Patrese who scored points at Long Beach, USA in the cars third race. Ambrosio left the team due to being jailed for financial irregularities in Italy. Shadow sued for copyright infringement, claiming that the Arrows FA/1 was just a copy of the Shadow DN9. The team, decided to build a new car called the A1. This was completed in 52 days and appeared the day after the High Court in London banned the team from racing the FA/1. In September, at Monza, Italy, Patrese was involved in an accident which claimed the life of Ronnie Peterson and he was banned from racing in America by his fellow drivers. In 1984 with BMW turbo engines and sponsorship from cigarette company Barclay things got much better. That year they were 9th in the Constructors Championship. Arrows was officially renamed Footwork in 1991, and retained the name until the conclusion of the 1996 season, whereupon the name of the team was changed back to Arrows. In March 1996 Tom Walkinshaw bought the team, in September Walkinshaw signed up World Champion Damon Hill and hired wealthy Brazilian Pedro Diniz to help pay for Hill. The team nearly secured a maiden victory at the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix when a combination of race events gave Hill the lead but a gearbox failure in the final laps of the race saw him finish second. In 2002 the team ran out of money halfway through the season and did not appear at any more races. As a result it went into liquidation at the end of the season.
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