Bojan Vrbnjak
Legendarni Enzo Ferrari has repeatedly threatened to step out of the past Formula 1. So it was in the mid-80s, when it came to the new engine policy. Popular Commendatore he insisted that Ferrari after the expiration of the first turbo period of Formula 1 used again 12 rollers engines.
As a sign that he is taking this very seriously, he is Enzo Ferrari commissioned design and manufacture Ferrari 637 za IndyCar. To find out a little more about CART racing cars, he traveled to Italy Bobby Rahal, the star of the team Truesports and that with his race car March 85C-Cosworth. The American soon after took the first laps down the track in Fioran. Guidelines for contact between Truesports in Ferrari set by the tire manufacturer Goodyear. Also Michael Alboreto, a Ferrari racer, was allowed to drive Rahal’s March.
Rahal said a few years later: “Ferrari even tried to get Adrian Newey, the then engineer of the March team, into its ranks. When he saw that this was not possible, Gustav Brunner was given the task of making a 637 car. Ferrari disassembled the March car into pre-factors and looked at everything in detail." Ferrari 637 was even presented to the media, Michele Alboreto but he also tried it. But this car has never competed in any race.
Meanwhile, the dispute between Ferrari and the guardians of the rules smoothed out, and besides John Barnard, the new technical team leader from Maranella, ruled against the program Indy. The car thus roamed the museum. But before that Ferrari 637 took away times of laps that were on the same level as he had achieved March.
However, this project was not in vain. Ferrari's Indy engine type 034 they developed it further and later installed an inscription on it Alfa Romeo, because the Alfa was between 1989 and 1994 with a chassis March appeared in the series CART, but without enviable success. Roberto Guerrero reached eighth place in 1989 as the best result Detroit, and the peak was the fifth place of the Colombian in 1990 Michigan. In 1991 he was Danny Sullivan at the inaugural race v Surfers Paradise fourth, finishing the season in eleventh place overall.
Ferrari 637 series IndyCar however, it also managed to get into Indianapolis. In 1994, Ferrari loaned him to a museum in Indianapolis, where he stood for a while on display in Hall of Fame.
