Zakspeed 871 F1 Car - 1987 - Bernd Schneider

But two German teams have made serious attempts up to now to gain a foothold in the formula 1. One was the Zakspeed team founded by Erich Zakowski from the small town Niederzissen in the Eifel-region. At the beginning both the chassis and the turbo engine were built in-house. When turbo engines were banned towards the end of 1988, Zakspeed continued to race with Yamaha engines for two more years. However, with little success. Finally the team had to retire for financial reasons in 1990.

The Zakspeed 871 was a Formula One car designed by Chris Murphy and Heinz Zollner and raced by Zakspeed in the 1987 Formula One season. The car was powered by the team's own 1.5 litre, 1500/4 straight 4 turbo engine, which was rated at about 920 bhp (686 kW; 933 PS) for the season. Martin Brundle had moved after 3 years at Tyrrell to be Zakspeed's lead driver, in a virtual driver swap with Jonathan Palmer, who had left Zakspeed after two seasons to drive for Tyrrell. Brundle was joined by former Formula 3000 champion Christian Danner, who had moved from Arrows.