The Zakspeed 891 was a

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car for the season run by the

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team. Its drivers were German Bernd Schneider in his second year with the team and F1 rookie

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. The car was powered by F1 newcomer

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who had produced the OX88

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for exclusive use by Zakspeed in Formula One. Due to neither Schneider nor his team mate

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scoring any points in the 881, the team was forced into pre-qualifying in order to be able to try to qualify for a race. While Schneider was able to qualify his car 25th for the

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, it would prove to be a false hope with the German only able to pre-qualify and qualify once more, at the

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. Suzuki never made it past pre-qualifying at any of the 16 rounds during the season. Most of this was attributed to what was found to be a very underpowered Yamaha engine. Late in the season following another double failure to pre-qualify at the

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, the Yamaha OX88 V8 was reported to be producing only .StatsF1 - Yamaha OX88
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and Judd V8s and the

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being used by most of the other teams. It was also unfavorable in comparison to the - bhp of the top four engines, the V10's of

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V8 ( Benetton). This made Schneider qualifying 21st for the following race in Japan all the more impressive. The 891 was the last Formula One car to be produced by Zakspeed as the team pulled out of Grand Prix racing following the 1989 season. Yamaha also pulled out of Formula One at the end of the year, but would return with the

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team in . File:Yamaha OX88 engine rear.jpg, Yamaha's OX88

used by Zakspeed in 1989.

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