All American Racers is an American-licensed 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 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.Competition Press & Autoweek, March 26, 1966, Page 3. The team were adjacent to Harry Weslake's engine development plant and half a mile from Elva cars.Competition Press & Autoweek, April 23, 1966, Page 6. 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

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 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 (along with the triumph of Penske at the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix) in Formula One.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. See the and the

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.

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/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.

Eagle 987 The Eagle 987 was the second to last chassis built by All American Racers. 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.Toyota Eagle MkIII , Mulsanne's CornerEagle MkIII GTP , quoted from RACER magazine

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. A homologation special production edition was offered in 1970.

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 Eagle T1G Climax S4Weslake V12 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 Eagle T1G Weslake V12 RSA MON NED BEL FRA GBR GER CAN ITA USA MEX137th Dan Gurney Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 3 Ret Ret Ret Richie Ginther DNQ Bruce McLaren Ret Ret Ret Ludovico Scarfiotti Ret RSA ESP MON BEL NED FRA GBR GER ITA CAN USA MEX0*12thEagle T1GWeslake V12 Dan Gurney Ret Ret Ret Ret 9 RetMcLaren M7AFord V8 Ret 4 Retcolspan=2

Non-works entries (key) Year Entrant Chassis Engine Tyres Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Castrol Oils Ltd. Eagle T1G Climax S4 RSA MON NED BEL FRA GBR GER CAN ITA USA MEX Al PeaseNC Castrol Oils Ltd. Eagle T1G Climax S4 RSA ESP MON BEL NED FRA GBR GER ITA CAN USA MEX Al Pease DNS John Maryon Eagle T1G Climax S4 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 Gurney1 Richie Ginther10

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 1979PHXATLINDYEagle 79Cosworth DFX V8 t Mike Mosley36 6 17 17 3 13 DNS 2 20 12 14 34 14 10 1980 INDY Eagle 80Cosworth DFX V8 t Mike Mosley48 19 Chevrolet V8 32 23 17 1981 Eagle 81 Chevrolet V8 Mike Mosley48 1* DNS 18 DNS 26 24 Geoff Brabham 19 9 Rocky Moran 6 1983 INDYEagle 83Chevrolet V8 Jeff Wood98 22 8 1984 INDY Eagle 84SB Pontiac V8 Mike Chandler88 16 DNQ Kevin Cogan 898 20 9 18 20 22 Pete Halsmer 14 Ed Pimm 26 13 22 22 19 10 12 19 1985 INDYEagle 85GC Cosworth DFX V8 t Tom Sneva2 8 20 2 6 11 3 21 8 15 5 21Lola T900 24 7 19 19 97 29 Ed Pimm98 21Eagle 85GC 12 9 19 DNS 5 11 20 9 8 3 14 9 12 1986 INDYEagle 86GCCosworth DFX V8 t Jan Lammers98 9 14 DNQ 1996 MIA RIO SFR LBH NAZ 500 MIL DET TOR Eagle MK-V Toyota RV8A V8 t Juan Manuel Fangio II36 21 17 15 25 25 22 19 18 14 13 28 14 20 8 19 28 P. J. Jones98 Wth 24 9 24 23 20 16 25 18 13 27 1997 SFR VAN FONReynard 96iToyota RV8A V8 t Juan Manuel Fangio II36 20 20 26 15Reynard 97iToyota RV8B V8 t 20 23 21 10 22 21 19 11 25 10 12 15 27Reynard 96iToyota RV8A V8 t P. J. Jones98 28 26 16 21Reynard 97iToyota 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 97iReynard 98iEagle 987 Toyota RV8C V8 tToyota RV8D V8 t Alex Barron36 18 24 14 DNS 12 14 DNS 20 14 15 28 15 16 24 19 20 12 19 13 P. J. Jones98 20 30 11 19 13 12 14 25 16 21 19 24 20 22 21 Vincenzo Sospiri 22 15 15 23 1999 MIA MOT LBH NAZ RIO GAT MIL POR CLE ROA TOR MCH DET MDO VAN SRF FON Eagle 997 Toyota RV8D V8 t Alex Barron36 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

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References

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