Don Nichols

Don Nichols (born November 23, 1924) is the founder and former principal of the Shadow Formula One team.^[1]

Nichols worked for Firestone before setting up his own company called Advanced Vehicle Systems in 1968. In 1970 he built his first CanAm car. He decided to call it Shadow, with the team's logo featured a cloaked spy. George Follmer won the CanAm title for Shadow in 1972 and Nichols landed a major sponsorship from Universal Oil Products and set up an operation to build Formula 1 cars. The company entered F1 at the start of 1973 with Follmer and Jackie Oliver driving. In 1975 Oliver became the team's commercial director. In 1977 most of the team management walked out of Shadow to establish the Arrows team. Nichols sued and won, claiming copyright infringement but Shadow went into decline and in 1981 Nichols sold the team to Chinese businessman Teddy Yip.^[2]

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