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Owner(s) | Fausto Foglia Silvio Rossetti |
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Base | Bollate, Italy |
Series | NASCAR Whelen Euro Series |
Race drivers | EuroNASCAR PRO: 16. Claudio Remigio Cappelli 17. Bernardo Manfrè EuroNASCAR 2: 16. Alfredo de Matteo 17. Francesco Garisto |
Sponsors | Cremona Gronde, International Water Machines, University of Bolton |
Manufacturer | Shadow |
Opened | 2022 |
Career | |
Debut | 2022 Valencia NASCAR Fest (Circuit Ricardo Tormo) |
Races competed | 14 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 0 |
Pole positions | 0 |
Full name | Shadow Racing Cars Inc. |
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Base | Northampton, United Kingdom |
Founder(s) | Don Nichols |
Noted staff | Jackie Oliver Alan Rees Jo Ramírez |
Noted drivers | Jean-Pierre Jarier Alan Jones Tom Pryce Peter Revson George Follmer |
Formula One World Championship career | |
First entry | 1973 South African Grand Prix |
Races entered | 112 |
Constructors' Championships | 0 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 1 |
Pole positions | 3 |
Fastest laps | 2 |
Final entry | 1980 French Grand Prix |
Shadow Racing Cars was a Formula One and sports car racing team, founded and initially based in the United States although later Formula One operations were run from the British base in Northampton. [1] The team held an American licence from 1973 to 1975 and a British licence from 1976 to 1980, thus becoming the first constructor to officially change its nationality. [2] [3] Their only F1 victory, at the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix, was achieved as a British team. [4]
The Shadow name was revived by Bernardo Manfrè in 2020 as an Italian car tuning and luxury brand. The revived Shadow brand currently competes in NASCAR Whelen Euro Series as the MK1 Racing Italia team, currently fielding the No. 16 Shadow DNM8 for Claudio Remigio Cappelli and Alfredo de Matteo and the No. 17 Shadow DNM8 for Manfrè and Francesco Garisto with technical partnership from Race Art Technology. [5] [6]
The company was founded by Don Nichols in California [7] in 1968 as "Advanced Vehicle Systems"; the cars were called Shadows, designed by Trevor Harris and entered under the Shadow Racing Inc. banner. The first Shadows, the Mk.Is, were entered in the CanAm series with George Follmer and Vic Elford driving them. The Mk.1 featured an innovative design, using very small wheels for low drag and, although the car was quick, it was not the most reliable car in the field.
The team became more competitive the following year, replacing the Harris car with a Peter Bryant design owing some elements to his Ti22 "titanium car" with Jackie Oliver also arriving from this effort and finishing eighth in the CanAm championship. The team also found some financial backing from Universal Oil Products (UOP).
Shadow came to dominate the shortened 1974 series, although by this point they were competing largely against privateers, the works McLaren and Porsche efforts having left the series.
Towards the end of 1972, Nichols announced that he would enter his team into Formula One in the 1973 season with UOP sponsored cars designed by Tony Southgate, who had designed the BRM that gave Jean-Pierre Beltoise victory at the Monaco Grand Prix the previous year.
The team debuted in Formula One at the 1973 South African Grand Prix with the Shadow DN1 chassis. Two cars were available for drivers Oliver and Follmer, as well as one car for the privateer team Embassy Hill of Graham Hill who ran his team alongside the Shadow works team.
For the 1974 season, the team hired two of the most promising drivers of the time: American Peter Revson and Frenchman Jean-Pierre Jarier. During a practice run for the 1974 South African Grand Prix, Revson was killed by a suspension failure on his DN3 car. He was replaced by Tom Pryce.
The new DN5 driven by Jarier gained pole position in the two first Grands Prix of the 1975 season but suffered mechanical failure in both races. The DN5 and most other Shadow Formula One cars used Ford Cosworth DFV engines, which produced around 490 bhp. However, later in 1975, another car was driven by Jarier, the DN7, and was fitted with a Matra V12 engine producing around 550 bhp. The wheelbase was substantially lengthened to accommodate the much larger and more expensive French powerplant, although due to budgetary issues, the Matra-powered DN7 was doomed as a one-off. Jarier's new teammate, Pryce, won the non-championship Race of Champions that same year. Pryce died in an accident involving a marshal at the 1977 South African Grand Prix. The marshal, Frederick Jansen Van Vuuren, had been running across the track to put out a small fire on the other Shadow car and Pryce was unable to avoid the collision because he was un-sighted behind the March of Hans-Joachim Stuck. Pryce struck Van Vuuren at speed and was hit on the head and killed by the fire extinguisher Van Vuuren was carrying. Before Pryce's car finally came to a stop it hit Jacques Laffite's Ligier resulting in both cars crashing into the barriers. Van Vuuren's injuries were so severe that he could initially only be identified by his absence from a marshal's meeting after the accident.
The team replaced Pryce with Alan Jones, who won the team's only Grand Prix at the Austrian Grand Prix the same year.
After the 1977 season Shadow entered into a sharp decline. Jones left to join Williams for 1978. In the same period a majority of their staff and their sponsor Franco Ambrosio left to form their team, Arrows, taking the young Riccardo Patrese. Despite sponsorship from Villiger tobacco and the signing of experienced drivers Clay Regazzoni and Hans Stuck for the 1978 season, results were poor. In 1980 they were absorbed into Theodore Racing, but Shadow's first ground effect chassis was largely uncompetitive, only once qualifying a car in seven races. Sponsorship dried up and after the seventh of the year's 14 races Teddy Yip wound up the Shadow team.
In 2020, 40 years after Shadow last raced in Formula One, it was announced that the Shadow Racing Cars name will be revived by Italian entrepreneur and racing driver Bernardo Manfrè as an Italian car tuning and luxury brand. Plans have been announced by the revived Shadow to develop a hypercar called Hypercar Shadow and a modified variant of the Dodge Challenger known as the Dodge Challenger Shadow DNB8 (later renamed as the Shadow DNM8). Shadow Racing Cars also entered the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020 under the banner of Swiss-based team 42 Racing, fielding owner Manfrè in the team's No. 17 Ford Mustang along with Luigi Ferrara and Francesco Garisto in the No. 42 Ford Mustang. [5] [8] [9] While the team was initially scheduled to enter the full-season, the team missed the second half of the season after members of the Shadow team was tested positive for COVID-19 prior to both NASCAR GP Croatia at Rijeka and Valencian Super Speedweek at Valencia. [10]
The team would make its return in 2021 with a Shadow DNM8-based chassis, the first racing chassis to be entered under the Shadow Racing Cars name since the Shadow DN12 was last raced in the 1980 French Grand Prix. [11] The team's EuroNASCAR 2 driver Francesco Garisto finished fifth with the #42 Shadow DNM8 that year after scoring two podium finishes at Most and Vallelunga. Shadow and 42 Racing parted ways at the conclusion of the 2021 season and the team would began to compete under the MK1 Racing Italia banner starting from the 2022 season and moved the team's base from Lugano to Bollate in Italy. Shadow would retain Manfrè and Garisto, now competing with the #17 team, as they signed Claudio Remigio Cappelli and Alfredo de Matteo to compete with the #16 team, which was rebranded from the #42 team. Shadow would also receive technical support from fellow competitor Race Art Technology to help field the two Shadow DNM8's in 2022. [6] [12]
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Year | Name | Chassis | Engines | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Points | WCC |
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1973 | UOP Shadow Racing | DN1 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | FRA | GBR | NED | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | 9 | 8th | |||
Jackie Oliver | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 11 | 3 | 15 | |||||||||||
George Follmer | 6 | 3 | Ret | DNS | 14 | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 17 | 14 | |||||||||||
Brian Redman | DSQ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1974 | UOP Shadow Racing | DN1 DN3 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | 7 | 8th | |||
Peter Revson | Ret | Ret | DNP | |||||||||||||||||||||
Brian Redman | 7 | 18 | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bertil Roos | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Tom Pryce | Ret | Ret | 8 | 6 | Ret | 10 | Ret | NC | ||||||||||||||||
Jean-Pierre Jarier | Ret | Ret | DNP | NC | 13 | 3 | 5 | Ret | 12 | Ret | 8 | 8 | Ret | Ret | 10 | |||||||||
1975 | UOP Shadow Racing | DN3 DN5 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | ESP | MON | BEL | SWE | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | USA | 9.5 | 6th | ||||
Tom Pryce | 12† | Ret | 9 | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | 6 | Ret | RetP | 4 | 3‡ | 6 | NC | ||||||||||
Jean-Pierre Jarier | DNSP | RetPF | Ret | 4‡ | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | 14† | Ret | Ret | ||||||||||||
DN7 | Matra MS73 3.0 V12 | Ret | Ret | 0 | NC | |||||||||||||||||||
1976 | Lucky Strike Shadow Racing Tabatip Shadow Racing | DN5 DN5B DN8 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | CAN | USA | JPN | 10 | 8th | ||
Tom Pryce | 3 | 7 | Ret | 8 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 8 | Ret | 4 | 8 | 11 | Ret | Ret | ||||||||
Jean-Pierre Jarier | RetF | Ret | 7 | Ret | 9 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 11 | Ret | 10 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 10 | ||||||||
1977 | Ambrosio Tabatip Shadow Racing | DN5B DN8 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | MON | BEL | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | JPN | 23 | 7th | |
Tom Pryce | NC | Ret | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||||
Riccardo Patrese | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 10 | 13 | Ret | 10 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Jackie Oliver | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Arturo Merzario | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Jean-Pierre Jarier | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Renzo Zorzi | Ret | 6 | Ret | Ret | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||
Alan Jones | Ret | Ret | 6 | 5 | 17 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 1 | Ret | 3 | Ret | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
1978 | Villiger Shadow Racing | DN8 DN9 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | MON | BEL | ESP | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | 6 | 11th | ||
Hans-Joachim Stuck | 17 | Ret | DNQ | DNS | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | 11 | 5 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | ||||||||
Clay Regazzoni | 15 | 5 | DNQ | 10 | DNQ | Ret | 15† | 5 | Ret | Ret | DNQ | NC | DNQ | NC | 14 | DNQ | ||||||||
1979 | Samson Shadow Racing Interscope Shadow Racing | DN9 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | BEL | MON | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | CAN | USA | 3 | 10th | |||
Jan Lammers | Ret | 14 | Ret | Ret | 12 | 10 | DNQ | 18 | 11 | 10 | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 9 | DNQ | |||||||||
Elio de Angelis | 7 | 12 | Ret | 7 | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 16 | 12 | 11 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 4 | |||||||||
1980 | Theodore Shadow Shadow Cars | DN11 DN12 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | BEL | MON | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | CAN | USA | 0 | NC | ||||
Stefan Johansson | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Geoff Lees | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||
David Kennedy | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||
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Year | Entrant(s) | Chassis | Engine | Tyres | Driver(s) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
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1973 | ARG | BRA | RSA | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | FRA | GBR | NED | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | ||||||
Embassy Racing | Shadow DN1 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | Graham Hill | Ret | 9 | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | NC | 13 | Ret | 14 | 16 | 13 | |||||
1976 | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | CAN | USA | JPN | |||||
Team P R Reilly | Shadow DN3 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | Mike Wilds | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||
1978 | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | MON | BEL | ESP | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | |||||
Interscope Racing | Shadow DN9 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | Danny Ongais | DNPQ | DNPQ |
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