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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Forti FG01,
also designated Forti FG01-95, was a Formula One car for the 1995 season
and was the first car made by Forti. The number 21 seat was taken by
rookie Pedro Diniz and the number 22 seat was taken by veteran Roberto
Moreno. The team never employed a test driver. The engine was a Ford EDD
3.0 V8. The team's main sponsor was Parmalat. The car was designed by
Giacomo Caliri and Giorgio Stirano, with input from Sergio Rinland, and
was built at the team's base in Alessandria, Italy. Building its own car
for the first time was the hardest task for the team (as required by the
F1 regulations). This turned out to be the main obstacle for Guido
Forti, as he insisted on having a reliable car built instead of a fast
one. That was precisely what he received: his first F1 car, the Forti
FG01, was an outdated, overweight and very slow machine, and has been
described as nothing more than "a revised F3000 car" and, more harshly,
"a fearful pile of junk".
