Shadow Racing Cars

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Shadow Racing Cars was a Formula One and sports car racing team from Britain.

The company was founded by Don Nichols in 1971 as Advance Vehicle Systems, but the cars were called Shadows and entered under the Shadow Racing Cars banner. The first Shadow, the Mk.I, was an innovative Can Am car using very small wheels for low drag.

The team debuted in F1 in 1973 with the DN1 chassis and backing from UOP. Two cars were available for drivers Jackie Oliver and George Follmer, as well as a private entry for Graham Hill.

For 1974 the team hired two of the most promising drivers of the time Peter Revson and Jean-Pierre Jarier. During a During a practice run for the South African Grand Prix Revson was killed by a suspension failure of his DN3.

The new DN5 made the pole driven by Jean-Pierre Jarier in the two first Grand Prix the 1975 season but had mechanical failure in both races. Jarier new teammate Tom Pryce showed his talent by winning the non-championship Race of Champions that same year.

The team would win only one championship race, the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix with Alan Jones. In 1980 they were absorbed by Theodore Racing, but lack of money meant the team was broken up by mid-season.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
1973 B.Redman, G.Follmer ARG BRA SAF SPA BEL MON SWE FRA GBR DUT DEU AUT ITA CAN USA    
1974 P.Revson,J.P.Jarier, B.Redman,B.Roos ARG BRA SAF SPA BEL MON SWE DUT FRA GBR DEU AUT ITA CAN USA    
1975 J.P.Jarier, T.Pryce ARG BRA SAF SPA MON BEL SWE DUT FRA GBR DEU AUT ITA USA      
1976 J.P.Jarier, T. Pryce BRA SAF USAW SPA BEL MON SWE FRA GBR DEU AUT DUT ITA CAN USA JPN  
1977 A.Jones, A.Merzario ARG BRA SAF USAW SPA MON BEL SWE FRA GBR DEU AUT DUT ITA USA CAN JPN
1978 C.Regazzoni, D.Ongais ARG BRA SAF USAW MON BEL SPA SWE FRA GBR DEU AUT DUT ITA USA CAN  
1979 E.deAngelis, J.Lammers ARG BRA SAF USAW SPA BEL MON FRA GBR DEU AUT DUT ITA CAN USA    
1980 D.Kennedy, G.Lees ARG BRA SAF USAW BEL MON FRA GBR DEU AUT DUT ITA CAN USA      
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