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In the years ’70 there is a real proliferation of teams and many have come and almost as many go there again. Also Ensign turns out to be not here to stay, whether they know it yet ten seasons. However, in various seasons races skipped, while it is also more than regular is that the cars do not know how to qualify. Due to the large number of teams are more cars than there are on the starting grid fit and so fall the slowest drivers already during the qualification.
In 1975, Ensign, a real Dutch main sponsor: HB Alarm systems. Today you can’t imagine, but their company name was in English on the car. What do you mean internationally? Part of the deal is that the Dutch Ron Wunderink and Gijs van Lennep, a few races allowed to ride in the Ensign N175. Wunderlich qualifies for three of the six races, in two and in the remaining race not qualified because of his great catching up with the rest of the field. Van Lennep qualified, however, for all three races that he with Ensign reed, his best result was a handsome sixth place on the Nürburgring.
The owners of HB Monitoring, the brothers Bob and Rody Hoogenboom, were, however, to stick with Ensign-team boss Morris Nunn. According to the brothers, would Nunn deliberately old parts in the car, Wunderink have stopped so this crashed during a Formula 5000 race at Zandvoort. In addition, wild Nunn stickers HB Monitoring replaced for a new main sponsor. Many lawsuits followed, until a judge declared that HB Monitoring are the legitimate owner of the one of the N175 F1 cars was. They had, after all, for the development and production paid! When the brothers with a trailer came to England to the cars to retrieve, could Ensign-staff, but just avoid a furious Nunn, the two brothers with a steel rod to body wanted to go.
A car the brothers had already and by coincidence they were also for 50,000 guilders, and also a part of the furniture of the Embassy Hill buy. This was the former team of F1 champion Graham Hill, who in 1975, along with some of my team members was killed in a plane crash. In upper church -of all places – a garage designed to work on the N175.
The car is in 1976 when six races are used, with Australian Larry Perkins behind the wheel. Only one race he knows not qualify, however, he falls three times with technical problems. HB Monitoring will withdraw as a sponsor, but the following season, the brothers slim back. They fit the chassis a little, spray the body black and call it then the Boro-001 -establishing the first Dutch manufacturer in Formula 1 – and rent the car to Brian Henton. After two races, but they get a fight with Henton and it is finally over and with Boro. The auto word purchased by the Chinese/Dutch businessman Teddy Yip