Starting with Number 6:
Number 6: 1991 Lotus, Judd and Izuzu (Lotus 102B/Lotus 102C)
Story: The Lotus 102B was powered by the 3.5 litre V8 Judd engine in 1991 instead of the 3.5 litre V12 Lamborghini engine they used in 1990. After a terrible 1990 F1 season, Team Lotus return to Judd power only ever intended as a stopgap though for 1991, just like 1990 the Lotus 102B (an evolution from last seasons 102) managed to score just 3 points in 1990, with best results from Mika Hakkinen with a fifth place finished at Imola, while nine times they did not qualify for the races to give Lotus a ninth place finish in the constructors' championship in 1991.
Meanwhile, during the 1991 season that Isuzu was secretly developing a V12 F1 engine and when team boss of Lotus found out, Lotus tested an Izuzu V12 3.5 engine (Lotus 102C) with the option to race the engine in 1992, in testing the car was six seconds off the pace due to problems that could resolve such as the engine wasn’t filled with racing fuel, 80Kg heavier than 102B, due to the extra batteries that were needed. Nevertheless the potential was there with the engine with investment from Izuzu. However, Izuzu higher management refused to give investment to the F1 project meant Izuzu F1 project was cancelled. Meaning, Lotus use 1991 Ford V8 engines for 1992.
Number 5: 1992 Minardi and Lamborghini (Minardi M192)
Story: After a decent season in 1991 with M191. Minardi team opted not to use Ferrari year old 3.5 litre V12 engines due to how expensive they were. Instead Minardi signed a contract to run the 3.5 litre V12 Lamborghini engines instead, which was much cheaper to run as powerful than the Ferrari engines. 1992 was a total nightmare for Minardi. The team struggled with reliability issues from the Lamborghini V12 engine, both Gianni Morbidelli, Alessandro Zanardi and Christian Fittipaldi failed to finish in eleven Grand Prixs', while Christian Fittipaldi and Alessandro Zanardi did not qualified in six of those. In the end Minardi M192 failed to score a point until the fifteenth race of the season in Japan, when Fittipaldi finished in sixth place. Overall, the Minardi M192 give Minardi only one point and twelfth place in the constructors standings in 1992. Next season, Minardi use customer supply of Ford 3.5 litre V8 engines that went much better.
Number 4: 1999 British American Racing and Supertec (BAR 01)
Story: After British American Tobacco (BAT) purchased the Tyrrell team in 1998, British American Racing opted for a new engine partner in a customer supply of 3 litre V10 Supertec (Renault) engines, Reynard designing the BAR 01 and 1997 F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve as one of their drivers meant the team should be challenging the likes of McLaren and Ferrari in 1999. Sadly, that didn't happen the Supertec engines was reliable throughout 1999, it was BAR 01 that Reyard design was unreliable, retiring twenty out of thirty-two times, did not qualify once with best results from Mika Salo with a seventh place finished at Imola, to give British American Racing a eleventh place finish in the constructors' championship in 1999 behind the likes of Minardi and Arrows. Next season, British American Racing use 3 litre V10 Honda works engines for 2000.
Number 3: 1983 Ligier and Cosworth (Ligier JS21)
Story: After Talbot-badged Matra pulled out of F1 at the end of 1982 season. Ligier return to Cosworth for 1983 with the 3 litre Cosworth DFV V8 engine. However, most of the other teams were using much powerful turbo engines in 1983 and the team lost long-term driver Jacques Laffite to Williams, resulting the team failed to score any points in 1983 managing two seventh place finishes and two times they failed to qualified in 1983. Next season, Ligier use 1.5. litre V6 Turbo Renault engines for 1984.
Number 2: 1994 Pacific and Ilmor (Pacific PR01)
Story: F3000 team Pacific Racing step up to Formula 1 in 1994 with the Pacific PR01, designed for the 1993 season. However, due to financial problems, it did not race until 1994. Powered by 1993 spec 3.5 litre V10 engine from Ilmor, the car was underpowered by 1994 standards; it was not upgraded nor the PR01 either due to the team was underfunded and unreliable. Resulting PR01 qualifying seven out of thirty-two attempts for Paul Belmondo and Bertrand Gachot. For 1995 Pacific team used customer 3 litre V8 engines from Ford instead.
Number 1: 1989 Zakspeed and Yamaha (Zakspeed 891)
Story: For 1989, Zakspeed had secured a deal to run 3.5 litre V8 Yamaha engines for 1989 replacing Zakspeed own 1.5 litre Straight 4 turbo engines had in 1988. However, the 3.5 litre Yamaha V8 engines in the Zakspeed 891 was underpowered and unreliable. Yamaha V8 was producing only 560 bhp compare to Honda V10 that was producing 690 bhp in 1989. Meant the Zakspeed 891 qualified twice in thirty-two attempts for Bernd Schneider and thirty times did not pre qualified for both Bernd Schneider and Aguri Suzuki. The 891 was the last Formula One car to be produced by Zakspeed as the team pulled out of Grand Prix racing following the 1989 season. Yamaha also pulled out of Formula One at the end of the year, but would return with the Brabham team in 1991 with a new V12 engine.
To give the Zakspeed and Yamaha deal that was another worse F1 Engine partnerships that went Wrong!
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