Shadow Racing Cars

The sports car racing team, competing in the CanAm series, was founded in 1968 and was based in the United States.

The revived Shadow brand currently competes in NASCAR Whelen Euro Series as the MK1 Racing Italia team, currently fielding the No.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

For 1979, the team employed two young drivers, Dutchman Jan Lammers and Italian Elio de Angelis.

The team only had one points finish all year, with de Angelis' 4th coming at the 1979 United States Grand Prix.

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, with three different drivers (Geoff Lees, who gave Shadow their only qualification at the South African Grand Prix; David Kennedy; and Stefan Johansson).