Shadow Racing Cars

Shadow Racing Cars was a US-amerikanisch/britisches Formula 1, Can-Am and sports car team.

History

In 1971, Don Nichols, the company Advanced Vehicle Systems, he named his cars but Shadow. The first Shadow was the Mk.1, an advanced Can-Am car with small tires for low flow resistance. In 1974 Jackie Oliver with a Shadow DN4A - Chevrolet Can- Am championship, his teammate George Follmer was second.

In Formula 1, the team debuted in 1973 at the Grand Prix of South Africa with a designed by Tony Southgate car. Two cars were used with the drivers Jackie Oliver and George Follmer and Graham Hill started out as a privateer.

1974 accident Peter Revson - Son of the founder of Revlon Kosmetikonzerns - fatal in testing for the Grand Prix of South Africa at Kyalami with a Shadow Ford DN3. Cause of the accident was a suspension defect.

At the Grand Prix of Austria 1977, the team won its first and at the same time only victory with the later world champion Alan Jones, after a few months earlier his predecessor Tom Pryce at the Grand Prix of South Africa in 1977 in a Shadow DN8 collided with a marshal and was killed by the fire extinguisher.

During the 1980 season the team went into an alliance with Theodore Racing, but the team moved to the Grand Prix of France for financial and sporting reasons from Formula 1 back. Theodore long pursued an independent Formula 1 project for the 1981 season and gave the Shadow DN12 no great development perspective more.

Results

Victories in the World Sportscar Championship

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