All American Racers

All American Racers is an American auto racing team and constructor based in Santa Ana, California.^[1] 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.^[2] The team were adjacent to Harry Weslake's engine development plant and half a mile from Elva cars.^[3] 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 Camel 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

An Eagle Mk1, in early, four-cylinder Climax-engined T1F form

In order to run the Formula 1 operations, Gurney established Anglo American Racers. The Eagle T1G, 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. In 1967 Richie Ginther was signed as a second driver. The Climax engine was replaced by a new 3-liter Weslake V12 designed by Aubrey Woods and built in Great Britain by Harry Weslake. At Spa-Francorchamps in June of that same year Gurney got a victory, the first "all-American" victory in a Grand Prix since Jimmy Murphy in 1921. Excluding the Indianapolis 500, this is the only win for a USA-built car in Formula One.^[1][4]

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

The Eagle driven to 6th place in the 1969 Indianapolis 500 by Joe Leonard

During the USAC years, the Eagle chassis was very successful in the late 1960s and 1970s, especially with driver Bobby Unser. Eagles won 51 Champ Car races, including the 1968 and 1975 Indy 500's won by Unser and the 1973 race won by Gordon Johncock. 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.

CART 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)
• Andrea Montermini (1999)
• Rocky Moran (1981)
• Mike Mosley (1979–1981)
• Ed Pimm (1984–1985)
• Gualter Salles (1999)
• Tom Sneva (1985)
• Vincenzo Sospiri (1998)

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.^[5][6]

Trans-Am

AAR created a special Trans-Am Series version of the Plymouth Barracuda, running in the 1970 season with drivers Dan Gurney and Swede Savage.^[7] A homologation special production edition was offered in 1970.^[8]

Racing results

Complete Formula One World Championship results

Anglo American Racers

(key) (Results in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Points	WCC
1966	Eagle T1G	Climax S4 Weslake V12	G		MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX				4	7th
				Dan Gurney		Ret	5	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	5
				Phil Hill							DNQ
				Bob Bondurant								DSQ	Ret
1967	Eagle T1G	Weslake V12	G		RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX		13	7th
				Dan Gurney	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Richie Ginther		DNQ
				Bruce McLaren					Ret	Ret	Ret
				Ludovico Scarfiotti									Ret
1968			G		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	0*	12th
	Eagle T1G	Weslake V12		Dan Gurney	Ret		Ret	Ret			Ret	9	Ret
	McLaren M7A	Ford V8												Ret	4	Ret

* 4th place in the 1968 United States Grand Prix was scored in a McLaren-Ford, therefore the points did not count towards Eagle-Weslake's points total.

Non-works entries

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1967	Castrol Oils Ltd.	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	G		RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX
					Al Pease								NC
1968	Castrol Oils Ltd.	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	G		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
					Al Pease										DNS
1969	John Maryon	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	F		RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
					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
			Dan Gurney	1
			Richie Ginther	10

Complete CART PPG Indy Car World Series results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
1979	Eagle 79	Cosworth DFX V8t			PHX	ATL		INDY	TRT		MCH		WGL	TRT	ONT	MCH	ATL	PHX
			Mike Mosley	36	6	17	17	3	13	DNS	2	20	12	14	34		14	10
1980	Eagle 80	Cosworth DFX V8t			ONT	INDY	MIL	POC	MDO	MCH	WGL	MIL	ONT	MCH	MXC	PHX
			Mike Mosley	48	19
		Chevrolet V8				32		23					17
1981	Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8			PHX	MIL	ATL		MCH	RIR	MIL	MCH	WGL	MXC	PHX
			Mike Mosley	48		1*	DNS		18		DNS	26			24
			Geoff Brabham							19				9
			Rocky Moran										6
1983	Eagle 83	Chevrolet V8			ATL	INDY	MIL	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	RIV	MDO	MCH	CPL	LAG	PHX
			Jeff Wood	98											22	8
1984	Eagle 84SB	Pontiac V8			LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	PHX	LAG	CPL
			Mike Chandler	88	16		DNQ
			Kevin Cogan			8
				98			20	9	18	20	22
			Pete Halsmer									14
			Ed Pimm										26	13	22	22	19	10	12	19
1985	Eagle 85GC Lola T900	Cosworth DFX V8t			LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	LAG	PHX	MIA
			Tom Sneva	2	8	20	2	24	6	11	3	21	8	15	7	5	19	19	21
			Tony Bettenhausen, Jr.	97		29
			Ed Pimm	98	12	9	21	19	DNS		5	11	20	9	8	3	14	9	12
1986	Eagle 86GC	Cosworth DFX V8t			PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	ROA	LAG	PHX	MIA
			Jan Lammers	98	9	14	DNQ
1996	Eagle Mk-V	Toyota RV8A V8t			MIA	RIO	SFR	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG
			Juan Manuel Fangio II	36	21	17	15	25	25	22	19	18	14	13	28	14	20	8	19	28
			P. J. Jones	98						Wth	24	9	24	23	20	16	25	18	13	27
1997	Reynard 96i Reynard 97i	Toyota RV8A V8t Toyota RV8B V8t			MIA	SFR	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	FON
			Juan Manuel Fangio II	36	20	20	26	15	20	23	21	10	22	21	19	11	25	10	12	15	27
			P. J. Jones	98	28	26	16	21	16	21	14	14	20	25	21	28	17	14	25	17	10
1998	Reynard 97i Reynard 98i Eagle 987	Toyota RV8C V8t Toyota RV8D V8t			MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	HOU	SFR	FON
			Alex Barron	36	18	24	14	DNS	12	14	DNS	20	14	15	28	15	16	24	19	20	12	19	13
			P. J. Jones	98	20	30	11	19	13	12	14	25	16	21	19	24	20	22	21
			Vincenzo Sospiri																	22	15	15	23
1999	Eagle 997	Toyota RV8D V8t			MIA	MOT	LBH	NAZ	RIO	GAT	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MCH	DET	MDO	CHI	VAN	LAG	HOU	SRF	FON
			Alex Barron	36	15	17	23	9	23	16	14
			Gualter Salles									27	13	20	25	15	11	18
			Raul Boesel																12					17
			Andrea Montermini																	11	24	23	15

References

1. http://allamericanracers.com/gurney_grand-prix/eagle_f1-story.html
2. Competition Press & Autoweek, March 26, 1966, Page 3.
3. Competition Press & Autoweek, April 23, 1966, Page 6.
4. 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.
5. Toyota Eagle MkIII, Mulsanne's Corner
6. Eagle MkIII GTP, quoted from RACER magazine
7. "Trans Am - The Early Years of American Sedan Racing". Car Craft. February 2009. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
8. "AAR 'Cuda". Mopar Muscle Cars. January 27, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2013.

External links

• Official Website