Shadow Racing history

Shadow Racing Cars was a US and British Formula 1, Can-Am and sports car team from the early 1970s to the 1980s.

History 

In 1971, Don Nichols founded the company Advanced Vehicle Systems, but he called his cars Shadow. The first Shadow was the Mk.1, an advanced Can-Am car with small tires for low drag. Initially based in the United States with the later Formula One operations were run from Northampton England UK

In Formula 1, the team debuted in 1973 at the Grand Prix of South Africa with a car designed by Tony Southgate. There were two cars with the drivers Jackie Oliver and George Follmer used and Graham Hill. In 1974, Peter Revson - son of the founder of the cosmetics company Revlon - killed in tests for the Grand Prix of South Africa in Kyalami with a Shadow Ford DN3 deadly. The cause of the accident was a suspension failure. The DN5 models used Ford Cosworth DFV engines, with around 490 bhp

At the Grand Prix of Austria in 1977, the team won its first and only one victory with the eventual World Champion Alan Jones, after a few months earlier its predecessor Tom Pryce at the 1977 South African Grand Prix in a Shadow DN8 collided with a marshal and been killed by its fire extinguishers was.

During the 1980 season, the team cooperated with Theodore Racing, however, retired the team after the Grand Prix of France for financial and athletic reasons from Formula 1 back. Theodore pursued an independent Formula 1 project for the season 1981 and gave the Shadow DN12 no great development prospects anymore.

In 2020, it was announced that the Shadow Racing Cars name will be used by Italian racing driver Bernardo Manfrè as an Italian car tuning and luxury car brand.