Can anyone identify these wheels?

[Notshortnottall]

By chance, I happened on a full set of BBS F1 wheels.

They were a proper barn find (literally in a barn) and the guy I got them from was an ex-Benetton engineer who'd had them kept away for many years. He was adamant that they were from Schumacher's Benetton but I'm struggling to identify which one / when.

I think that I've narrowed it down to the B193 but most of the shots I can find are in motion which make it very difficult to see the wheels.

Can anyone help?

[Save Ferris]

I’d say they’re from the Benetton B198, certainly not earlier.

1993 they still used OZ, and for the years after the wheels were White until ‘98

[LM240]

B201 (2001) I’d say if colour and logos are original.

[LM240]

Launch in Venice.

Nothing matches for the other years.

[scrw.]

Not off a B193 at they used OZ wheels on that. They are the same design as the BBS on the B194 - 197 but they were white, could be a b198 but they may have gone back to OZ that year.

[Notshortnottall]

Save Ferris said:

I’d say they’re from the Benetton B198, certainly not earlier.

That's interesting. Looked it up and the wheels *look* identical but are OZ and not BBS??

[scrw.]

just to throw a spanner in the works they may be off a show car so stickered up to represent the supplier at the time. Are there no casting marks?

[Notshortnottall]

Hmm - some further digging has found these of the B194 which seem to fit the bill (or at least I hope they do:



Amazing how many non-static shots there are!

[F1GTRUeno]

Yeah the white B194 wheels were only from Jerez onwards (last three races) so they ran black for most of the year.