All American Racers is anAmerican-licensed^[2]auto racing team and constructor based inSanta Ana, California.^[3] Founded byDan Gurney andCarroll Shelby in 1964, All American Racers initially participated in Americansports car andChamp Car races as well as internationalFormula One events with cars namedEagle. The Formula One team, based in theUnited Kingdom and using British-builtWeslake engines was namedAnglo American Racers. Under team manager Bill Dunne they set up shop inRye, East Sussex.^[4] The team were adjacent to Harry Weslake's engine development plant and half a mile fromElva cars.^[5] They participated in 25 Grands Prix, entering a total of 34 cars.

All American Racers

Base	Rye, East Sussex,UK andSanta Ana, California,USA[1]
Founder(s)	Dan Gurney
Formula One World Championship career
First entry	1966 Belgian Grand Prix
Races entered	25
Engines	Climax,Weslake
Constructors' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	1
Podiums	2
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	2
Final entry	1969 Canadian Grand Prix

The first Eagles were created after AAR entered aGoodyear-backedLotus 38 in the1965 Indianapolis 500 and Gurney hired former Lotus designerLen Terry to develop their own car for 1966. The resultingFord-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 withToyota to develop theCelica and latersports prototypes for theIMSA GT Championship.

The company built the Ben Bowlby-designedDeltaWing that was run byHighcroft Racing at the2012 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In order to run the Formula 1 operations, Gurney established theAnglo American Racers team, based inRye, East Sussex,UK, though the cars were built inSanta Ana, California,USA by theAll American Racers team. TheEagle T1G car, powered by an obsoleteCoventry Climax engine, debuted at the1966 Belgian Grand Prix and scored its first points with a fifth place three weeks later at theFrench Grand Prix. For the1967 seasonRichie Ginther was signed as a second driver. The Climax engine was replaced by a new 3-literWeslake V12 engine designed byAubrey Woods and built in Great Britain byWeslake.

At the1967 Belgian Grand Prix Gurney achieved the first "all-American" victory in a Grand Prix sinceJimmy Murphy´s triumph withDuesenberg at the1921 French Grand Prix. Excluding theIndianapolis 500, this is the only win for a USA-built car as well asone of only two wins of anAmerican-licensed constructor in Formula One.^[3][6]

The Eagle-Weslake was a beautiful and efficient car, one example of which was constructed intitanium and exoticalloys. 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 whichBobby Unser had won theIndianapolis 500 and the 1968 Indycar Championship. A non-works version briefly appeared with privateerAl Pease in the1969 Canadian Grand Prix, but Pease became noticed for all the wrong reasons and made history as the only F1 driver ever disqualified for being too slow.

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 byBobby Unser and the 1973 race won byGordon 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 forTeam 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 withMike 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.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

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 newToyota 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.^[16]

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  1968 Indianapolis 500-winning chassis, driven byBobby Unser,Offenhauser turbo
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  The Eagle 68, powered by a turbochargedFord Indy V8 engine, driven to 6th place in the1969 Indianapolis 500 byJoe Leonard
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  1972 Gurney-Eagle Indycar chassis driven byMark Donohue
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  TheEagle 997 was the final CART car designed by AAR.

• 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)

TheEagle 987 was the second to last chassis built by All American Racers.^[17] The car was raced only by Eagle, and was driven byVincenzo Sospiri andAlex Barron. The car was entirely unsuccessful, and would be replaced by theEagle 997 for the1999 CART Championship.

Gurney's team was contracted byToyota in 1983 to enter theIMSA GT Championship with specially-modifiedToyota Celicas.

In 1988, the team moved up to the GTP category with two chassis – a modifiedToyota 88CGroup C car and a team-designedEagle HF89 purpose-built for IMSA competition.

AAR experienced its greatest success in GTP competition with theEagle MkIII, introduced in 1991. Powered by aturbocharged 2.1-liter Toyotainline-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.^[18][19]

AAR created a specialTrans-Am Series version of thePlymouth Barracuda, running in the1970 season with drivers Dan Gurney andSwede Savage.^[20] Ahomologation special production edition was offered in 1970.^[21]

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