The Italian Sanremo team, owned by former racer Alberto Colombo, took over a Lola T850 for Guido Pardini for the 1981 season. Carlo Rossi, the team's second driver, drove a used 1980 Toleman TG280. Both cars were equipped with Heidegger BMW engines. In the Lola T850, Pardini performed significantly worse than his teammate: while Rossi finished fourth, fifth and sixth in the old TG280 and finished the championship in 13th place, Pardini retired six times and achieved seventh place in Rome as his best result.
