The opening races of 1993 seemed promising for the fledgling Larrousse squad, even after suffering the embarrassment of a double-retirement in the opening round. Alliot and Comas brought both cars to the finish in Brazil, with Alliot narrowly missing out on points in 7th. The team had a miserable race in Donington's downpour. Alliot crashed on his own while Comas finished 4 laps down, ahead of only Michele Alboreto's Lola. Larrousse's efforts would finally pay off at Imola, with Alliot outlasting a sea of retirements to score a fine fifth and two crucial points. In Spain, Alliot and Comas drove nose to tail from lap one until Alliot's gearbox let go 26 laps in. Comas finished 9th after a race long battle with Mark Blundell, Christian Fittipaldi, and Aguri Suzuki. It was the first of what would become an 8-race streak in which one Larrousse failed to finish due to a mechanical failure. By this point, money had run out and not a single part was updated after Hockenheim. The team's second double-finish came 7 months after their first, with the luckless Comas surviving a crash-strewn Italian Grand Prix to take a point for sixth. Things looked to be on the upswing for the team, with only one retirement in the final four races. Sadly Larrousse's points tally leaving Monza would remain unchanged. Penniless, Gérard Larrousse hired the well-funded Toshio Suzuki to replace Alliot for Japan and Australia.