**Ecurie Bonnier**|  |
| Nome completo |  Suíza Ecurie Bonnier /Joakim Bonnier Racing Team /Anglo-Suisse Racing Team /Ecurie Suisse |
| Bandeira |  |
| Baseada en |  |
| Tempadas en activo |  |
| Número de pilotos |  Joakim BonnierAustria Helmut Marko Harry Schell Phil HillItalia Giulio CabiancaAlemaña Hans Herrmann |
| Debut | Gran Premio do Reino Unido de 1957 |
| Carreiras | 45 |
| Campionatos de Construtores | 0 |
| Campionatos de Pilotos | 0 |
| Vitorias | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Voltas Rápidas | 0 |
| Puntos totais |  |
| Derradeiro GP | Gran Premio dos Estados Unidos de 1971 |

**Ecurie Bonnier**, **Ecurie Suisse**, **Joakim Bonnier Racing Team** e **Anglo-Suisse Racing Team** foron nomes utilizados polo piloto de carreiras sueco Joakim Bonnier para correr cos seus propios coches na Fórmula 1, Fórmula 2 e carreiras de coches deportivos entre 1957 e a súa morte en 1972. Normalmente os vehículos eran pilotados polo propio Bonnier, pero tamén proporcionou coches a outros pilotos.

Fórmula Un
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O *Anglo-Suisse Racing Team* Cooper-Maserati T81, usado de 1966 a 1968
Bonnier no seu McLaren M7C no Gran Premio de Alemaña de 1971
Jo Bonnier comezou a presentar coches na Fórmula 1 baixo o seu propio nome en 1957, primeiro cun Maserati 250F, sen moito éxito, rexistrando só dous finalizaciós sen puntos nas súas seis participacións no Campionato do Mundo en 1957 e 1958. Porén, con grandes actuacións noutras carreiras, Bonnier atraeu a atención de equipos máis establecidos, e durante os seguintes sete anos pilotou principalmente para os equipos oficiais de BRM e Porsche, e o equipo privado altamente organizado de Rob Walker.

Bonnier volveu correr co seu propio equipo en 1966, baixo o nome de Anglo-Suisse Racing para reflectir a súa residencia en Suíza naquel momento. A súa montura principal ese ano foi un Cooper-Maserati T81, pintado en vermello e branco suízo. O ano comezou de forma prometedora no Trofeo Internacional BRDC de 1966, que abriu a tempada, no Circuíto de Silverstone, con Bonnier clasificándose co Cooper no sexto lugar e rematando un gran terceiro posto, pero o resto da tempada houbo pouca alegría. Un accidente na primeira volta do Gran Premio de Bélxica destruíu o seu Cooper T81. Mentres se reparaba o coche, Bonnier correu nun Cooper-ATS construído por Alf Francis no Gran Premio de Francia. Despois de que o Cooper-ATS non demostrase ser competitivo nos adestramentos, Bonnier fixo un trato co equipo Brabham e pilotou o seu coche muleto durante o resto da fin de semana. O Cooper T81 de Bonnier foi reparado a tempo para o Gran Premio de Holanda despois de pilotar un Brabham BT7 no Gran Premio do Reino Unido. Os primeiros puntos de Anglo-Suisse Racing no campionato chegarían no Gran Premio de México de 1966, que pechou a tempada, dende o sexto lugar.

Bonnier continuou pilotando no Cooper durante 1967, pero baixo a bandeira do Joakim Bonnier Racing Team. A tempada foi lixeiramente máis produtiva que o ano anterior, con Bonnier anotando puntos para o Campionato en Alemaña e EE.UU.. En 1968 Bonnier comezou a tempada co vello Cooper, pero este foi rapidamente substituído polo único e exclusivo McLaren-BRM M5A para a maior parte das carreiras do ano. Na última carreira da tempada, o Gran Premio de México de 1968, Honda ofreceu a Bonnier o uso dun RA301 de recambio cando o motor BRM do McLaren fallou durante os adestramentos. Foi coa Honda cando Bonnier anotou o mellor resultado do seu equipo homónimo no Campionato do Mundo: quinto.

A finais de 1968 o propio Bonnier decidiu retirarse da competición de Fórmula Un e concentrarse nos seus compromisos con coches deportivos. Con todo, continuou facendo aparicións ocasionais. En 1969, o novo nome Ecurie Bonnier apareceu xunto co coche experimental con tracción nas catro rodas do Team Lotus co-inscrito Lotus 63 no Gran Premio do Reino Unido de 1969, e cun Lotus 49B convencional na seguinte carreira en Alemaña. Bonnier retirouse sen acadar puntos en ambas ocasións. En 1970 e 1971 Ecurie Bonnier correu cun McLaren M7C. Bonnier tomou medidas tentativas para actuar como mecenas doutros pilotos en 1971, presentandp ao mozo austríaco Helmut Marko para o Gran Premio de Alemaña de 1971. Non obstante, abandonou despois de quedar sen gasolina na súa primeira volta de adestramentos, deixando a Bonnier pilotando no seu lugar. Ao non conseguir sequera cualificar nalgunhas carreiras, Bonnier decidiu abandonar definitivamente a Fórmula Un a finais de 1971.

### Resultados completos na Fórmula Un

(Chave) As carreiras en letra **grosa** indican **pole position**; as carreiras en *cursiva* indican *volta rápida*. † indica a condución compartida.)

| Ano | Chasis | Motor(es) | Pneum. | Pilotos | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1957 | Maserati 250F | Maserati 250F1 2.5 L6 | **P**
 |  | ARX | MON | 500 | FRA | GBR | ALE | PES | ITA |  |  |  |  |  |
|  Jo Bonnier |  |  |  |  | Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 1958 | Maserati 250F | Maserati 250F1 2.5 L6 | **P**
 |  | ARX | MON | NED | 500 | BEL | FRA | GBR | ALE | POR | ITA | MAR |  |  |
|  Harry Schell | 6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  Jo Bonnier |  | Ret | 10 |  | 9 |  | Ret |  | Ret |  |  |  |  |
|  Phil Hill |  |  |  |  |  | 7 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Italia Giulio Cabianca |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ret |  |  |  |
| Alemaña Hans Herrmann |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ret | 9 |  |  |
| 1966 | Cooper T81 | Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12 | **F** |  | MON | BEL | FRA | GBR | NED | ALE | ITA | USA | MEX |  |  |  |  |
|  Jo Bonnier | NC | Ret |  |  | 7 | Ret | Ret | NC | 6 |  |  |  |  |
| Brabham BT22 | Climax FPF 2.8 L4 |  |  | NC |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Brabham BT7 | Climax FWMV 1.5 V8 |  |  |  | Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 1967 |  |  |  |  | RSA | MON | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | CAN | ITA | USA | MEX |  |  |
| Cooper T81 | Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12 | **F** | Suecia Jo Bonnier | Ret |  |  | Ret |  | Ret | 6 | 8 | Ret | 6 | 10 |  |  |
| 1968 |  |  |  |  | RSA | ESP | MON | BEL | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | ITA | CAN | USA | MEX |  |
| Cooper T81 | Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12 | **F** | Suecia Jo Bonnier | Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| McLaren M5A | BRM P101 3.0 V12 | **G**
 |  |  | DNQ | Ret | 8 |  | Ret |  | 6 | Ret | NC | DNS |  |
| Honda RA301 | Honda RA301E 3.0 V12 | **F** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5 |  |
| 1969 |  |  |  |  | RSA | ESP | MON | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | ITA | CAN | USA | MEX |  |  |
| Lotus 63 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | **F** | Suecia Jo Bonnier |  |  |  |  |  | Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Lotus 49B |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 1970 |  |  |  |  | RSA | ESP | MON | BEL | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | MEX |
| McLaren M7C | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | **G**
 | Suecia Jo Bonnier |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | DNQ |  | Ret |  |
| 1971 |  |  |  |  | RSA | ESP | MON | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA |  |  |
| McLaren M7C | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | **G**
 | Suecia Jo Bonnier | Ret |  |  |  |  |  | DNQ | DNS | 10 |  | 16 |  |  |
| Austria Helmut Marko |  |  |  |  |  |  | DNS |  |  |  |  |  |  |

Formula Two
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Jo Bonnier first entered Formula Two cars in 1966, for the Swiss driver Jo Siffert who drove a Cooper-BRM T82 painted in Swiss racing red and white. The first race of the season was scheduled for Oulton Park but although practice was held the race was cancelled because of snow on the track. Siffert was 15th in practice, almost seven seconds behind the fastest man Jim Clark. At Goodwood Siffert finished in seventh position, one lap behind race winner Jack Brabham. After a crash in practice Siffert failed to start at Pau as the team was unable repair the car before the race. At Reims Bonnier drove the Cooper to ninth position, two laps down on race winner Jack Brabham. Bonnier but didn't fare much better at Rouen as he retired from the race on lap five. Swedish driver Sten Axelsson drove he car at the Karlskoga Motorstadion and finished in 9th place. At the Keimola Ring in Finland local driver Max Johansson drove the car to a 12th position. Giancarlo Baghetti drove the Cooper at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery where he retired on lap seven after an electrical failure. Baghetti was also entered in the Formula two class at the German Grand Prix but the team did not attend.

In 1971 Ecurie Bonnier entered a car in the European Formula Two Championship for the young Austrian Helmut Marko. In the first race of the season at Hockenheim Marko was not classified because he failed to finish the second heat. After skipping Thruxton Marko finished eight at the Nürburgring and scored one championship point, but then failed to finish at Jarama and the non championship round at Imola. Jo Bonnier drove the car at the season finale 
in Vallelunga, where he finished in 12th position.

### Complete European Formula Two results

(key) (Results in **bold** indicate pole position; results in *italics* indicate fastest lap; † indicates shared drive.) 

| Year | Chassis | Engine(s) | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Modelo:F2 | Lola T240 | Cosworth FVA |  | HOC | THR | NÜR | JAR | PAL | ROU | MAN | TUL | ALB | VAL | VAL |
| Austria Helmut Marko | Ret |  | 8 | Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Suecia Jo Bonnier |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12 |

Sports car racing
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The No. 7 Lola T280 at the 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans
It was with sports cars that Jo Bonnier first became involved in motor racing, entering Alfa Romeo saloons and sports cars in various Scandinavian rally, ice racing and circuit championships during the early 1950s. He stepped up to true racing sports cars with various Maserati two-seaters, including his own Maserati 150S. In common with his single seater career, the majority of Bonnier's sports car entries during the first half of the 1960s were with works or established privateer teams, and it wasn't until the latter years of that decade that he began to enter his own cars once again.

For 1968 Bonnier purchased a McLaren M6B for use in the North American Can-Am series, and an ex-John Surtees Lola T70 Mk3 GT for use in European races. Both were finished in the Ecurie Bonnier/Ecurie Suisse Swedish racing yellow, but retained vestiges of the previous year's Anglo-Suisse identity with longitudinal white and red stripes along their centre line. Results with the McLaren were generally disappointing, with Ecurie Suisse's best result being third place against mainly local opposition at the Can-Am series' non-Championship 200 mile race at the Fuji Speedway in Japan. The Lola proved more competitive, however, and Bonnier took top ten places at two of the four World Sportscar Championship (WSC) races that he contested in 1968, finished in second in the Players Trophy race at Silverstone, and won both the Anderstorp and Norisring 200 km races. For 1969 Ecurie Suisse upgraded to the new Lola Mk3B specification car, in keeping with the newly introduced FIA sports car rules. With this car Bonnier finished fifth in the 1969 1000 km Spa race, and he took two second-place finishes in the 1969 British RAC Sports Car Championship.

For 1970 Ecurie Suisse took a new route. Rather than just fielding large capacity sports cars such as the McLaren and Lola T70s, the team decided to concentrate on the 2 000 cc (122 cu in) class. Retaining the Ecurie Suisse yellow livery, but running under the Ecurie Bonnier moniker, the little Lola T210 provided excellent results, with Bonnier taking class wins in the Salzburgring, Anderstorp, Hockenheim and Enna rounds of the European Sportscar Championship (ESC), in addition to second places at Paul Ricard and Spa. This secured the series title for the, by now veteran, Swede. In 1971 Ecurie Bonnier switched entirely to the smaller capacity cars, fielding an updated, T212-specification Lola for Italian driver Mario Casoni. Bonnier himself drove a similar car entered by Scuderia Filipinetti.

In 1972 Ecurie Bonnier decided to expand and upgrade their stable, with brand new three litre Lola-Cosworth T280 cars for Bonnier and new team mates Reine Wisell, Gérard Larrousse and Chris Craft in the WSC, alongside the year old Filipinetti/Bonnier T212s for a number of junior drivers. The team also ran T290 Lolas in the ESC, for Jorge de Bagration, Claude Swietlik, Roland Heiler and others. While the T280s chassis was a proven unit, the Cosworth DFV engine had been designed with Formula One racing in mind and frequently failed to complete the longer distances required of sports car racing. Sadly for Bonnier and his team, the Swede's long driving career was to come to an end at the wheel of one of his own cars. For the 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans race Bonnier was sharing a T280 with Larrousse and Gijs van Lennep. Things were going well, with Bonnier's car leading briefly and setting fastest lap before transmission troubles, but in attempting to lap the Ferrari Daytona of Florian Vetsch Bonnier instead ran into the back of the slower car. The Lola was sent spinning into the trees and Bonnier was killed instantly. Ecurie Bonnier limped on into the 1973 season – with the team's new T292 Lolas sporting sponsorship backing from Portuguese property investment company BIP and piloted by a number of Portuguese drivers, including Carlos Gaspar and Jorge Pinhol—but at the end of the season Ecurie Bonnier was wound up for good.

Notas
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1. ↑  Sources differ in whether the engine for Bonnier's entry for the 1966 British Grand Prix was 1.5 or 2.0 litres. However, the contemporary race report in *Motor Sport* magazine suggests that there were only sufficient parts to create two 2.0L FWMV engines, both for Team Lotus, and that Bonnier's entry was not intended to be competitive as he was acting as a stand-in for the absent Ferrari cars for filming of John Frankenheimer's movie *Grand Prix*. Taking these factors into account, it appears most likely that the engine used was the car's original 1.5L unit.

Referencias

1. ↑  "Photos of Jo Bonnier's cars". *Racing Sports Cars*. Consultado o 17 de xaneiro de 2011.
2. 1 2  Diepraam, Mattijs (Summer 2001). "The start of the 3-litre era". *8W*. Consultado o 17 de xaneiro de 2011.
3. ↑  "The 52nd Grand Prix of the A.C.F.". *Motor Sport magazine archive*. agosto de 1966. p. 15. Consultado o 3 de novembro de 2019.
4. ↑  "The 33rd German Grand Prix". *Motor Sport magazine archive*. setembro de 1971. p. 34. Consultado o 3 de novembro de 2019.
5. ↑  Jenkinson, Denis (August 1966). "The 19th British Grand Prix". *Motor Sport* **42** (8): 702–705. Consultado o 20 January 2021.
6. ↑  "Formula 2 1966 – Race Index". *Formula 2 Register*. Consultado o January 22, 2018.
7. ↑  "Germany 1966 - Race Entrants". *StatsF1*. Consultado o November 3, 2019.
8. ↑  "V Deutschland Trophäe 1971". *Formula 2 Register*. Consultado o January 22, 2018.
9. ↑  "1971 European F2 Trophy". *motorsportmagazine.com*. Consultado o January 22, 2018.

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### Ligazóns externas

* Vic Elford describes Jo Bonnier's death, at the wheel of his Ecurie Bonnier Lola T280
* Ecurie Bonnier's summary statistics at ChicaneF1.com




  

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