The team was a combination of two outfits – Giampaolo Pavanello's Euroracing team and the financial muscle and organisational skill of Swiss slot machine  Walter Brun, who owned and ran the Brun Motorsport sports car team.

EuroBrun Racing was a Swiss-Italian Formula One constructor based in Senago, Milan, Italy. They participated in 46 Grands Prix between 1988 and 1990, with an Italian license, entering a total of 76 cars.

The team made its debut in Formula 1 in 1988 with drivers Oscar Larrauri and Stefano Modena. Both drivers were able to complete a grand prix seven times together but did not score a single point. In 1989, only one car was at the start. Gregor Foitek took care of the first eleven races of the season but could not prequalify once. Oscar Larrauri completed the last five grands prix, but he also did not get past pre-qualifying once.

Despite the poor results, the team decided to participate again in 1990. Two new riders were brought in. After the last European grand prix, the team decided to call it quits and stop traveling to Japan and Australia to complete the second last grands prix of 1990 and the team disappeared from Formula 1.

 

Headquarters;  Senago, Milan, Italy, 1988-1990

er188

The EuroBrun ER188 was a Formula One car built and raced by the EuroBrun team for the 1988 Formula One season. The car was designed by Mario Tolentino and was powered by a normally aspirated Cosworth DFZ engine. Three ER188 chassis were produced.

Despite a solid, if unspectacular start to the season, EuroBrun were struggling as money ran low. There was internal trouble when in May 1988 Brun unsuccessfully tried to replace Larrauri with German driver Christian Danner. It turned out that the German driver was too tall for the monocoque of the ER188. Since the team had no money for any modification it kept Larrauri in the second car to the end of the season, much to the annoyance of most of the other drivers as the Argentine had gained the unwanted reputation of being slow and hard to pass, especially when being lapped as the EuroBruns were often.

Modena's 11th place at the Hungarian Grand Prix would be the car's best result.

At the end of the season in December the team entered an ER188 for Fabrizio Barbazza in the 1988 Formula One Indoor Trophy at the Bologna Motor show. Barbazza was knocked out in the first round by the Minardi of Luis Pérez-Sala.

For the 1989 Formula One season the car was updated to ER188B specification and used a Judd CV V8 engine and Pirelli tyres. The team entered just one car for rookie Gregor Foitek.

oscar larrauri

1988

cosworth DFZ, 3,494 cc V8, NA, mid-engine, longitudinally mounted

adelaide street circuit 

1988-1990

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