All American Racers

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All American Racers is an American auto racing team and constructor based in Santa Ana, California. 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 Great Britain and using British-built Weslake engines was named Anglo American Racers. Under team manager Bill Dunne they set up shop in Rye, East Sussex. The team were adjacent to Harry Weslake's engine development plant and half a mile from Elva cars. 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

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An Eagle T2G USAC car, essentially identical to the Formula One T1G except for suspension and engine specifications.

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.

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.

The 1967 Eagle-Weslake is still being 'used' virtually: a detailed, drivable replica is one of the most popular cars in the racing simulation Grand Prix Legends. The less-powerful 1966 Eagle-Climax version is part of the 1966 'Mod' for this x86 pc-based software.

USAC & CART Champ Car

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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)
• Vincenzo Sospiri (1998)

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	Eagle T1G McLaren M7A	Weslake V12 Ford V8	G		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	0*	12th
				Dan Gurney	Ret		Ret	Ret			Ret	9	Ret	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	?		RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX
					Al Pease								NC
1968	Castrol Oils Ltd.	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	?		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
					Al Pease										DNS
1969	John Maryon	Eagle T1G	Climax S4	?		RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX
					Al Pease									DSQ

External links

• Official Website