Yamaha F1 engine

The Yamaha F1 engines were a series of naturally aspirated racing engines that the Japanese company Yamaha developed for Formula One between 1989 and 1997. Yamaha first supplied Zakspeed, then Brabham in 1991, Jordan in 1992, Tyrrell from 1993 to 1996 and finally Arrows in 1997. The engines never won a race, although Damon Hill came close to victory in the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix, and drivers including Hill, Ukyo Katayama, Mark Blundell and Mika Salo scored some acceptable results with them. Apart from the Formula One cars, the article on the engine also lists the Yamaha OX99-11 road car among its applications, so the series reached both the Formula One grid and a road-going supercar project.