Andrea Moda Formula - 1992 Monaco Grand Prix (action + interview)

This is another rare gem of the folkloric Andrea Moda team in action during the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix.
In this video we can see the team's preparations to the Monaco Grand Prix, as well an interview with Roberto Moreno explaining the situation of the team. At some points we can see Perry McCarthy ready to "qualify" and some "glamour" in the Andrea Moda pits. xD
Moreno was able to qualify his Moda S921 in the 26º position, last of the grid (although he was able to run into the mid-pack during thursday). His race lasted 11 laps, due of a blown engine. He was classified in the 19º position.

[@manfromnantucket9544]

You can hear the despair in Moreno's voice. He was really struggling with this car. All a man can do is his best.

[@KayDizzelVids]

And he had the better car by a mile.

[@johncate9541]

Today, he says the highlight of his career was when he actually qualified the Andrea Moda for a race.

[@kevinhanandi]

And he really did his best, get out of pre quali in that andrea moda is a miracle

[@ald7248]

Actually Roberto thought the Andrea Moda chassis was reasonably good. But they had no money for spares or development.

[@luizprudenciojunior4505]

Roberto Puppo Moreno made a miracle of classifying this car for a Monaco GP. The big miracle!

[@chrisninety1]

I love the first fifteen seconds of the video when the Andrea Moda is going flat out.

[@MrUnbekannter111]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MathiasAllenda]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@whyalwaysme2522]

Roberto Moreno talent didnt deserve this...

[@nickhartwell8053]

Try being Perry McCarthy in this situation.......

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

@@nickhartwell8053 attempted murder at Spa. To be fair, McCarthy only had to deal with a bad year. Moreno seemed to make a career out of driving for these sort of teams bless him. With the exception of Benetton (thanks Schumey!)

[@AlonsoRules]

Meanwhile Patrese got to drive the Williams. No justice.

[@NathanF11989]

@@MrMiD.Life.Crisis Roberto should have had more podiums than just Japan '90 in his F1 career.

[@renatosoares2169]

Moreno tirou "água de pedra" ao colocar esse carro no grid. Grande piloto . 🇧🇷

[@jairoamaral1280]

Verdade ! só o moreno mesmo pra colocar um carro desse no grid..

[@JackFrost9210]

At the British Grand Prix they apparently sent Perry McCarthy out on a bone dry track on full wet tyres

[@RantingBrummie]

JackFrost9210 they also sent him out at Spa with a bent steering arm, which nearly broke as he went through eau rouge ...

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Wtf

[@michiadams]

@@RantingBrummie There is actually some people saying it was atempted Murder to get him out of the team. And lets be honest, if there is any team boss that would pull off shit like that it's defenetly Sassetti.

[@fabianrocha9924]

@@michiadams ASassetti

[@sulemax9907]

Wtf is wrong with this team. They almost killed those riders

[@richardwitt3121]

More than his F3000 title, or his podium for Benetton, or his two wins in CART: actually qualifying the car for this disgrace of a team was the greatest accomplishment of Roberto Moreno's career.

[@SuperDavidGnomo]

Roberto Moreno was a good driver, very underrated.

[@N1Gaming]

Perhaps not the worst car but probably the worst team as an organisation

[@johncate9541]

Niall McBride The MasterCard Lola cars in 1997 were the worst cars, slower than even some F3000 cars run on the same circuit. The Andrea Moda chassis was OK, because it had actually been developed by a real, if non-competitive team (Coloni) before they sold out to Sassetti. The new ownership just had no idea how to run a car or a team. Moreno was able to qualify it on his own ability, but there was no way he could make it hold up in a race. He's said before that qualifying this car for a race was the highlight of his career. The Lolas in '97 were the result of trying to cram two years of development into a few months. Lola thought they could do it because they'd built so many IndyCars, but an IndyCar and an F1 car are very different, no matter how similar they may appear to be. They hadn't even attempted an F1 design for a few years.

[@noveltybobel]

+John Cate Or maybe the Forti team from 1995/96 was the worst car. I read that they would have been back markers in F3000

[@N1Gaming]

Look up the Life L190, you're welcome :P

[@noveltybobel]

+Niall McBride We have a winner! The L190 made the Forti team look like Ferrari!

[@sekhyhybrid6701]

N1 Gaming LOL, Andrea Moda at least managed to qualify for the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix, so worst car? I don't think so. Life did never even finish in dead last position in pre-qualify during all the races of their only season they raced with the worst being Imola where Life was 5 MINUTES off the pace.

[@pjc2]

Moreno was the strongest part in this team.

[@justarandomguy4873]

Przemyslaw Jakub in all the teams he drove, he is so unlucky to pick slow teams :(

[@theuser698]

@@justarandomguy4873 Moreno Drive small team because he want help then to atlest race in Sunday

[@TheShockninja]

This is gotta be the greatest weekend of my life: from the Japanese Grand Prix, to the NASCAR race and now watching this for the first time. Heaven

[@arthurteo5795]

Given the little they had, they did their best and delivered a legendary outcome. A beautiful little team with character and courage. A fantastic driver: Roberto Moreno.

[@NgKQ96]

Andrea Moda is probably the worst of all teams, in terms of management (worse than MasterCard Lola and Life, which had crappy cars). Perry McCarthy was given various mistreatments, their trucks stuck at a blockade in France, and the final straw was when Andrea Sasetti was arrested in Belgium for forging invoices

[@andre_marte9916]

Ng KQ rpijete

[@alexguerrazzi]

I think the worst was life f1

[@MrSniperfox29]

@@alexguerrazzi Life had the worst car, AM was the worst team. At least LIFE never tried to kill or maim a driver on purpose so they didn't have to deal with him

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

@@MrSniperfox29 Just curious...did AM team attempt to kill his ien driver ??? Getting to know the team owner was such a merciless individual is just appalling.Could you tell me sth about it ? Thanks.

[@MrSniperfox29]

@@INDIGOBLUE555 Okay here's the story When AM began the season they had Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia as their drivers. Due to various issues (all caused by Sessetti) the team was excluded from the first race, and didn't turn up the second. This obviously annoyed said drivers, so when they complained, Sessetti fired them and replaced them with Moreno and Perry McCarthy. After a few more races of general incompetence Bertaggia came back with a million dollars of sponsorship, which Sessetti said he would like very much. Unfortunately the FIA said no, you've changed drivers too many times, and now you stick with Moreno and McCarthy. This annoyed Sessetti very much, and he decided to blame McCarthy for everything and basically ignored his entry to throw everything behind Moreno. In Spain, for example, McCarthy overslept. No big, you think, but the entire team was in the same hotel and nobody bother to wake him. In Britain, he was set out on a dry track with wet tyres, and in Hungary he was only allowed out 45 seconds before the end of the session. Now comes Belgium, where McCarthy's car suffered a broken steering column and nearly suffered a violent crash at Raidillon. When he told the team, they just said "yeah, we knew it was broken when we took it off Moreno's car and put it on yours" Thankfully the team was thrown out before they could find other ways to kill McCarthy, and never seen again.

[@ClassicFormulaOne1]

First of all his name is not MacArthur...MacArthur was a general in WW2. Secondly, Moreno WAS a very good driver and quite a big name in F1 and lower classes.

peterprm19ify Moreno's F3000 title in 1988 should become a movie

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Ahhahahahahahahaha MacArthur!

[@MrSniperfox29]

Moreno was never a "big name" in F1

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

To be fair Moreno was not rated as a top driver and not even was such a great name. I'm not stating he wasn't a good driver overall... as like as a number of drivers he probably got talent yet he never had the "chance" which can make your professional status change.

[@hyperdrive608]

Wow Andrea Sasetti seems more interested in acting like a rock star and posing in the pit lane than running his F1 team. No wonder this team was a joke. HRT were poles ahead in professionalism compared to this lot!

[@disturbedrocks1996]

I think I remember reading that he thought the fastest and most expensive brand of racing in the world was a good way to advertise his fucking shoe company. He comes off as a complete moron if you ask me

[@johncate9541]

+disturbedrocks1996 It would have been good advertising, if he'd actually put people in charge who knew what the hell they were doing, rather than trying to run it himself, as he apparently did. Benetton got into F1 during that time to promote itself, but they hired well-qualified people to run their team, funded it properly, and eventually even won a constructor's championship.

[@Denilson24]

+John Cate they didn't it was MasterCard that forced them into the 97 season, they wanted to join in 98 cause they knew it was too early

[@manfromnantucket9544]

Checking out dat ass @ 1:32

[@NgKQ96]

Not to mention one of current backmarkers Manor. Manor is strong already, courtesy of Pascal Wehrlein who scored 1 point at Austria in 2016

[@sdcampos6781]

The Moreno' s Miracle!...

[@studiocalder818]

Remember the amazing stories of the jumper Eddie Edwards or the Jamaican bobsled team. Courageous for some, reckless for others.

[@NathanF11989]

Moreno truly worked wonders to get this car on the grid. Overall Andrea Moda are in my opinion the most farcical team ever to take part in F1. If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend reading Perry McCarthy's autobiography to take a peek into just how chaotic things were.

[@geleia6605]

Roberto Pupo Moreno, the King of small Scuderia

[@marcomilani8371]

However it was a beautiful car....and for sure screaming better than 2018 F1 cars..

[@RadiiatedAtec]

Andrea Moda, MOVING, WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?

[@boomkittyFX]

you can tell this team picked favorites

[@McLarenMercedes]

At the time there was no rule about a maximum number of teams, only one that forced all teams to pre-qualify for the race which meant the really slow cars failed to even see the real qualifying. For the race there were a maximum amount of cars which was 26. Those that had managed to pre-qualify but failed to be one of the 26 fastest qualifiers never started the race. In the early 90's and the rising popularity of F1, many saw a chance to buy a team to market their products, in this case shoes..

[@marquesdeportago1596]

At least the car was a beauty

[@theempires5]

Well, plenty of time to admire it's beauty. 😉

[@marcelbalatin1915]

Peu importe le désastre de ce team, l'exploit à été réalisé et restera dans ma mémoire comme un de mes meilleurs souvenirs. En plus elle est sublime dans cette livrée noire. Avec des gens sérieux elle aurait certainement fait reparler d'elle cette S921 mais tant pis l'histoire est et restera belle malgré tout. Mon vrai regret c'est de ne l'avoir jamais vu arriver à magny-cours en ce mois de juillet 1992.......

[@dougharvey9766]

I pretty sure the S921 moda car that Simtek built for Sassetti was originally drawn for BMW, but that project didn't happen. So when the Colone cars were rejected by Bernie and Max, Simtek had a car already drawn and ready to go. Max had some investment/connection with Simtek also as the FIA would use Simtek's wind tunnel. Yes they had a small wind tunnle in Banbury a few doors down from the workshop. Solution to the problem created by banning the Colone cars. Nice little earner that one...

[@MrSniperfox29]

Simtek didn't build anything for AM, they simply sold them the two year old designs which AM then updated and built themselves.

[@cellyras]

Moreno rulles!!!!

[@R12-j8j]

Roberto Moreno a eu la malchance de courir à l'époque des Senna, Mansell ect... Plus de place pour cet excellent pilote, quand on voit ce qu'il peut faire avec Andrea.

[@rodrigobma]

Roberto Pupo Moreno sofreu com essa carroça, viu?

[@andrealg5620]

I living in the same region of Sassetti, over ten years ago was stripclub's holder.. 😅

[@rengabriel]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RBenjo21]

To be honest the car wasn’t that bad, and in better hands you wonder what could have been. It is a key part of the Simtek story.

[@GVGames1986]

The team boss had links to the underworld as well. You can see he is a bit 'heavy' in this footage.

[@arthurteo5795]

It really is a good looking car.

[@candidoj]

Good car. Interesting project.

[@GVGames1986]

I read Perry McCarthy's book, if you look closely he did these laps without a race seat. Look at the cockpit as it goes past. This is the book: amzn.to/2B6DoGR

[@avfcmatt1982]

Jesus, I never thought any footage existed of an Andrea Moda actually moving! Shambolic team, looking back its amazing how mickey mouse operations were allowed to enter F1.

[@v0ldy54]

The team owner recently got attested lol

[@LoganHunter82]

Well... The car didn't look bad. Fondmetal was uglier.

[@c.grassa3333]

Who is the blonde at 1:20?

[@GashdakSaghzaar]

The owner thinks he so slick, I swear he acts like a mafioso

[@johncate9541]

Maybe he was one...

[@fax5077]

He didn't act, he was one !

[@muratasashimi4532]

Andrea Moda is not the worst team ever if Andrea Sassetti didn't ruin the whole career

[@ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣΚΟΝΤΟΣ-π1β]

Moreno did miracles for that team that shouldn't have been in f1 in the first place. Although the s921 chassis were designed by nick wirth so it wasn't that bad of a design it was good. Just sassettis poor management and lack of knowledge on how to run an f1 team tha was the issue. Also sassetti instead of following the rules and accepting help from ecclestone he went against them.And also about McCarthy the team with the budget they had should have only one driver

[@boardertrashtv8638]

They say if it looks good then it will be good. Not in this case, that car is a stunner, really beautiful but......

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

That saying did rarely work in F1 :) The awesome Lotus 79 can be rated as the flagship amongst beautiful and winning F1 cars, albeit just a handful of cars in F1 history were both winners and attractive.

[@simonefileri6537]

Bernie cheated a lot of teams for F1 entry in order to enlarge starting grid with underpowered and unbudgeted cars

[@wernerholt3051]

Andrea-Moda is better team in Formula1! I love Perry McCartey!

[@wrctube]

@Dogman36 Heheh. thank you, buddy! =)

[@neptunecollognes3038]

I think you are forgetting HRT

[@Octolicia]

That thing could race let alone run?

[@nerysilva5991]

0:38 Bono Vox (U2)??? kkkkkk

[@gurrrn1102]

Looks nothing like him. It's Andrea Moda team owner Andrea Sassetti, just as the voiceover said

[@iuciubbb]

Just a wannabe rockstar...

[@jdfjdfjdfjdf]

Keith Wiggins? You mean Nick Wirth? Wiggins was Pacific's team owner.

[@senorsoupe]

Man, Sasetti just looks like a dodgy bastard doesn't he? Either was this was a great driver by Moreno

[@ohmm8891]

1:38 what is iDubbz doing in Monaco in 1992?

[@wrctube]

iGuzzini. It's an Italian lightning company.

[@Dogman36]

i love you! lol but srsly this is awesome

[@neild4451]

From the mid 1990s the Pacific F1 team was one of the worst teams.

[@elionetto1]

I meccanici lavoravano con i jeans

[@koba4764]

E cinturone in cuoio

[@kaiokendo]

The only rockstar in Andrea moda Is the ROCKmobile

[@Basetornado]

Perry MacArthur was a better driver then Moreno, but he just couldn't show it at a team that hated him and made sure he

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Why they hated him?

[@MrSniperfox29]

@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 Because another driver offered them 1 million dollars but the FIA said "no, you've changed drivers enough"

[@mohamadyusufefendi8878]

Lol