Arrows A21

The Arrows A21 was the car with which the Arrows team competed in the 2000 World Championship, driven by Pedro de la Rosa and Jos Verstappen. It was a completely new design by Mike Coughlan and Eghbal Hamidy, who had drawn the very similar Stewart SF3, and it used a revised Supertec engine with an excellent aerodynamic package and a much lower centre of gravity than the A20. Money from the mobile phone company Orange paid for development through the year. The car broke the lap record in pre-season testing at Barcelona and had among the highest straight-line speeds of the season, but it was too unreliable to score more than a handful of points, with Verstappen fourth at Monza.