ghinzani
No need to apologise.
Yes, you are absolutely right that Masao Ono alone can not be held responsible for the disastrous Maki F101/C. It was designed by Kenji Mimura (cheif designer) and Ono. Considering that the even more disastrous F102A (1976) was also designed by Mimura, he may be the one to...
Anyway, the F101 was way too heavy (by about 150kg) and the cooling was said to be none existant. That's why they had to abandon the distinctive radiator configuration. I think Howden Ganley had quiet a bit of input in making the evolutionary F101C and Ono came up with that more conventional design, but even that was too heavy even to qualify for a race...
The 1976 Maki F102A was even worse. As you have said, it was decided unsafe even to run... If I remember correctly, other teams protested against it to be run... It "looks" unsafe, doesn't it?
