Pacific PR01

Pacific PR01
Car Information
Manufacturer	Pacific
Engine	Ilmor 2175A V10
Designer	Paul Brown
Formula One World Championship
Years active	1994
Constructor	0
Grands Prix	16
Wins	0 (0%)

The Pacific PR01 was a car built by Pacific Racing for the 1993 Formula One Season, although financial issues delayed the car's debut until 1994. It was largely unsuccessful, qualifying for only five of the races that season and never managing to complete the race distance. It was driven by Bertrand Gachot and Paul Belmondo.

This was the first car developed by Pacific Racing. The car was fitted with a V10 Ilmor from the 1992 season, which was underpowered compared to the engines used by rivals in 1994. Much of the car's chassis was based on aerodynamic research conducted by Reynard Motorsport for an abandoned 1992 Formula One project. The data had been sold to Pacific and Ligier.

The aerodynamic design of the car was tweaked by the Pacific engineers, although the car never completed any wind tunnel testing and had only limited track testing to fine tune any modifications.

With the car lacking performance, Pacific attempted to withdraw midway through the season to start development on the following year's car, but they would have had to pay fines.

Complete Formula One Results

Complete Formula One Results
Entrant	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
1994
Pacific Racing	33	Belmondo	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
	34	Gachot	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ

Key
Symbol	Meaning		Symbol	Meaning
1st	Winner		Ret	Retired
2nd	Podium finish		DSQ	Disqualified
3rd			DNQ	Did not qualify
5th	Points finish		DNPQ	Did not pre-qualify
14th	Non-points finish		TD	Test driver
Italics	Fastest Lap		DNS	Did not start
18th†	Classified finish (retired with >90% race distance)		NC	Non-classified finish (<90% race distance)
4thP	Qualified for pole position		[+] More Symbols