Enzo Coloni had been
a successful F3 driver himself in the early eighties winning the Italian
Championship and he formed his own team Coloni Motorsport to run his car.
After his retirement he continued to run other drivers winning the European
Championship in 1984 with Ivan Capelli. In 1987 he entered F1, for three
years he struggled to even qualify his cars for races as a lack of finance
saw the team unable to progress. After these problems Coloni retired back
to the more junior formula where the company is still active, they recently
built the cars for the successful Spanish Nissan Open Championship.
Pre-release
sketch of the FTS.
The
FTS 392 was so called due to sponsorship from an Argentinean bank
called FTS. The car was designed in conjunction with the University
of Perugia and entered in the Italian championship for Enzo's son
Paolo. Results for the Alfa-Romeo car seem to have been undistinguished
with just a 6th at Magione in addition it just failed to qualify for
the Monaco GP support race.
A new car, the 393,
appeared in 1993, no details are available other than it qualified last
on the grid at Monaco and crashed out after 10 laps.