All American Racers

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Former F1 team Template:Infobox IndyCar team All American Racers is an American-licensed<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> auto racing team and constructor based in Santa Ana, California.<ref name="allamericanracers.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Founded by Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby in 1964, All American Racers initially participated in American sports car and Champ Car races as well as international Formula One events with cars named Eagle. The Formula One team, based in the United Kingdom and using British-built Weslake engines was named Anglo American Racers. Under team manager Bill Dunne they set up shop in Rye, East Sussex.<ref>Competition Press & Autoweek, March 26, 1966, Page 3.</ref> The team were adjacent to Harry Weslake's engine development plant and half a mile from Elva cars.<ref>Competition Press & Autoweek, April 23, 1966, Page 6.</ref> They participated in 25 Grands Prix, entering a total of 34 cars.

The first Eagles were created after AAR entered a Goodyear-backed Lotus 38 in the 1965 Indianapolis 500 and Gurney hired former Lotus designer Len Terry to develop their own car for 1966. The resulting Ford-powered Eagle T2G was codeveloped with the Eagle T1G for Formula 1. After exiting Formula One in 1968 and concentrating on Champ Car, Eagle turned to sports car racing in the 1980s, partnering with Toyota to develop the Celica and later sports prototypes for the IMSA GT Championship.

The company built the Ben Bowlby-designed DeltaWing that was run by Highcroft Racing at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Formula 1

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An Eagle Mk1, in early, four-cylinder Climax-engined T1F form. The car wears the Imperial blue paint, the national racing colour of the United States.

In order to run the Formula 1 operations, Gurney established the Anglo American Racers team, based in Rye, East Sussex, UK, though the cars were built in Santa Ana, California, USA by the All American Racers team. The Eagle T1G car, powered by an obsolete Coventry Climax engine, debuted at the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix and scored its first points with a fifth place three weeks later at the French Grand Prix. For the Template:F1 season Richie Ginther was signed as a second driver. The Climax engine was replaced by a new 3-liter Weslake V12 engine designed by Aubrey Woods and built in Great Britain by Weslake.

At the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix Gurney achieved the first "all-American" victory in a Grand Prix since Jimmy Murphy´s triumph with Duesenberg at the 1921 French Grand Prix. Excluding the Indianapolis 500, this is the only win for a USA-built car as well as one of only two wins of an American-licensed constructor in Formula One.<ref name="allamericanracers.com"/><ref>Penske achieved a victory at the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix having raced with an American licence, but the car was built at the British base in Poole. Though American-owned, the British-based Shadow achieved a victory at the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix having raced with a British licence.</ref>

The Eagle-Weslake was a beautiful and efficient car, one example of which was constructed in titanium and exotic alloys. More than this, the Eagle was designed to make the tall Gurney fit comfortably at the wheel. Their efforts produced a V12 that was smooth and powerful. At Monza, an insight into the future of engine design was seen for the first time. The engine had four valves per cylinder at a narrow included angle (thirty degrees) that allowed a single cover to enclose both the close-spaced camshafts on each bank. The sixty-degree-vee layout had a larger bore than stroke (72.8 X 60mm). Gurney's program ran out of money in 1968 and by the end of the year he returned to the United States to concentrate his efforts on the more successful Indycar program, in which Bobby Unser had won the Indianapolis 500 and the 1968 Indycar Championship. A non-works version briefly appeared with privateer Al Pease in the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix, but Pease became noticed for all the wrong reasons and made history as the only F1 driver ever disqualified for being too slow.

USAC & CART Champ Car

During the USAC years, the Eagle chassis was very successful in the late 1960s and 1970s. Eagles won 51 Champ Car races, including the 1968 and 1975 Indy 500's won by Bobby Unser and the 1973 race won by Gordon Johncock. During this two-decade period, Bobby Unser, who drove Eagle cars for most of his teams, joined AAR as the sole driver, winning the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Unser also claimed 22 wins and 52 podiums with Eagle cars. After Unser's departure from the team for Team Penske, All American Racers started to lose their edge in IndyCar competition. Mike Mosley won a few races for the team before being dismissed at the end of 1982. By 1984, AAR merged with Mike Curb's team to form Curb-All American Racers. After a two-year partnership with Curb, Gurney and Curb parted ways, and this marked the beginning of the end of AAR's time in IndyCar.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The All American Racers team was inactive in single-seaters from 1987 to 1995 and returned in 1996 again building their own chassis and using new Toyota engines. However, this new effort, a combination of new and untested equipment, did not prove to be successful, never winning a race and collecting only occasional top-tens. The team ceased active racing after the 1999 CART season.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• 1968 Indianapolis 500-winning chassis, driven by Bobby Unser, Offenhauser turbo
  1968 Indianapolis 500-winning chassis, driven by Bobby Unser, Offenhauser turbo
• The Eagle 68, powered by a turbocharged Ford Indy V8 engine, driven to 6th place in the 1969 Indianapolis 500 by Joe Leonard
  The Eagle 68, powered by a turbocharged Ford Indy V8 engine, driven to 6th place in the 1969 Indianapolis 500 by Joe Leonard
• 1972 Gurney-Eagle Indycar chassis driven by Mark Donohue
  1972 Gurney-Eagle Indycar chassis driven by Mark Donohue
• The Eagle 997 was the final CART car designed by AAR.
  The Eagle 997 was the final CART car designed by AAR.

CART/USAC drivers

• Alex Barron (1998–1999)
• Raul Boesel (1999)
• Geoff Brabham (1981)
• Mike Chandler (1982, 1984)
• Kevin Cogan (1984–1985)
• Juan Manuel Fangio II (1996–1997)
• Pete Halsmer (1984)
• P. J. Jones (1996–1998)
• Jan Lammers (1986)
• Bobby Unser (1972–1978, USAC)
• Andrea Montermini (1999)
• Rocky Moran (1981)
• Mike Mosley (1979–1981)
• Ed Pimm (1984–1985)
• Gualter Salles (1999)
• Tom Sneva (1985)
• Vincenzo Sospiri (1998)

Eagle MK-V

The Eagle MK-V was the third to last Eagle CART, and the first original chassis following post-1986 inactivity. It was entered exclusively by Eagle and only for the 1996 season, because it was unsuccessful, even though it had 2 races in which it scored points, and a further 2 other races where it finished 1 place down from points. The drivers were Juan Manuel Fangio II and P. J. Jones. The Mk-V would be the first CART chassis developed by Eagle after being inactive after the 1986 CART Series. This new car, called the Mk-V would be a unique chassis, but would be structurally similar to the Reynard 94I. The CART would be almost completely untested before the season, and during the season would prove to be extremely bad in the corners.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Eagle 987

The Eagle 987 was the second to last chassis built by All American Racers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The car was raced only by Eagle, and was driven by Vincenzo Sospiri and Alex Barron. The car was entirely unsuccessful, and would be replaced by the Eagle 997 for the 1999 CART Championship.

IMSA GT

Gurney's team was contracted by Toyota in 1983 to enter the IMSA GT Championship with specially-modified Toyota Celicas.

In 1988, the team moved up to the GTP category with two chassis – a modified Toyota 88C Group C car and a team-designed Eagle HF89 purpose-built for IMSA competition.

AAR experienced its greatest success in GTP competition with the Eagle MkIII, introduced in 1991. Powered by a turbocharged 2.1-liter Toyota inline-4 developing up to 800 horsepower and generating 10,000 pounds of downforce at 200 mph, the MkIII won 21 of the 27 races in which it was entered – a record so dominant that it has been blamed for the collapse of the GTP series.<ref name="MulsannesCorner">Toyota Eagle MkIII Template:Webarchive, Mulsanne's Corner</ref><ref name="RacerAAR">Eagle MkIII GTP Template:Webarchive, quoted from RACER magazine</ref>

Trans-Am

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1970 Trans-Am AAR 'Cuda

AAR created a special Trans-Am Series version of the Plymouth Barracuda, running in the 1970 season with drivers Dan Gurney and Swede Savage.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> A homologation special production edition was offered in 1970.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Racing results

Complete Formula One World Championship results

Anglo American Racers

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Points	WCC
Template:F1	Eagle T1G	Climax S4 Weslake V12	Template:Goodyear		MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX				4	7th
				Template:Flagicon Dan Gurney		Ret	5	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	5
				Template:Flagicon Phil Hill							DNQ
				Template:Flagicon Bob Bondurant								DSQ	Ret
Template:F1	Eagle T1G	Weslake V12	Template:Goodyear		RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX		13	7th
				Template:Flagicon Dan Gurney	Ret	Ret	Ret	Template:F1 race position	Ret	Ret	Template:F1 race position	3	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Template:Flagicon Richie Ginther		DNQ
				Template:Flagicon Bruce McLaren					Ret	Ret	Ret
				Template:Flagicon Ludovico Scarfiotti									Ret
Template:F1			Template:Goodyear		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	0*	12th
	Eagle T1G	Weslake V12		Template:Flagicon Dan Gurney	Ret		Ret	Ret			Ret	9	Ret
	McLaren M7A	Ford V8												Ret	4	Ret	colspan=2 Template:N/ATemplate:Efn

Non-works entries

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Template:F1	Castrol Oils Ltd.	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	Template:Goodyear		RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX
					Template:Flagicon Al Pease								NC
Template:F1	Castrol Oils Ltd.	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	Template:Goodyear		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
					Template:Flagicon Al Pease										DNS
Template:F1	John Maryon	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	Template:Firestone		RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
					Template:Flagicon Al Pease									DSQ

Complete Formula One Non-Championship results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6
1967	Eagle T1G	Weslake V12		ROC	SPC	INT	SYR	OUL	ESP
			Template:Flagicon Dan Gurney	1
			Template:Flagicon Richie Ginther	10

Complete CART PPG Indy Car World Series results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
1979						PHX	ATL		INDY	Template:Tooltip		Template:Tooltip		Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 79	Cosworth DFX V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Mike Mosley	36	6	17	17	3	13	DNS	2	20	12	14	34		14	10
1980						Template:Tooltip	INDY	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 80	Cosworth DFX V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Mike Mosley	48	19
		Chevrolet V8					32		23					17
1981						Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip		Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Mike Mosley	48		1*	DNS		18		DNS	26			24
				Template:Flagicon Geoff Brabham							19				9
				Template:Flagicon Rocky Moran										6
1983						Template:Tooltip	INDY	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 83	Chevrolet V8	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Jeff Wood	98											22	8
1984						Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	INDY	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 84SB	Pontiac V8	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Mike Chandler	88	16		DNQ
				Template:Flagicon Kevin Cogan			8
					98			20	9	18	20	22
				Template:Flagicon Pete Halsmer									14
				Template:Flagicon Ed Pimm										26	13	22	22	19	10	12	19
1985						Template:Tooltip	INDY	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 85GC	Cosworth DFX V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Tom Sneva	2	8	20	2		6	11	3	21	8	15		5			21
	Lola T900								24							7		19	19
				Template:Nowrap	97		29
				Template:Flagicon Ed Pimm	98			21
	Eagle 85GC					12	9		19	DNS		5	11	20	9	8	3	14	9	12
1986						Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	INDY	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle 86GC	Cosworth DFX V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Jan Lammers	98	9	14	DNQ
1996						MIA	RIO	SFR	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	TOR	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
	Eagle MK-V	Toyota RV8A V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel Fangio II	36	21	17	15	25	25	22	19	18	14	13	28	14	20	8	19	28
				Template:Flagicon P. J. Jones	98						Wth	24	9	24	23	20	16	25	18	13	27
1997						Template:Tooltip	SFR	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	VAN	Template:Tooltip	FON
	Reynard 96i	Toyota RV8A V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel Fangio II	36	20	20	26	15
	Reynard 97i	Toyota RV8B V8 t								20	23	21	10	22	21	19	11	25	10	12	15	27
	Reynard 96i	Toyota RV8A V8 t		Template:Flagicon P. J. Jones	98	28	26	16	21
	Reynard 97i	Toyota RV8B V8 t								16	21	14	14	20	25	21	28	17	14	25	17	10
1998						MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	HOU	SFR	FON
	Reynard 97i Reynard 98i Eagle 987	Toyota RV8C V8 t Toyota RV8D V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Alex Barron	36	18	24	14	DNS	12	14	DNS	20	14	15	28	15	16	24	19	20	12	19	13
				Template:Flagicon P. J. Jones	98	20	30	11	19	13	12	14	25	16	21	19	24	20	22	21
				Template:Flagicon Vincenzo Sospiri																	22	15	15	23
1999						MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MCH	DET	MDO	Template:Tooltip	VAN	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	SRF	FON
	Eagle 997	Toyota RV8D V8 t	Template:Goodyear	Template:Flagicon Alex Barron	36	15	17	23	9	23	16	14
				Template:Flagicon Gualter Salles									27	13	20	25	15	11	18
				Template:Flagicon Raul Boesel																12					17
				Template:Flagicon Andrea Montermini																	11	24	23	15

External links

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