Today marks the anniversary of Shadow's final World Championship race: the 1980 South African GP. In our Great Read, Tony Southgate takes us back to the beginning of the team's F1 story, at a desk in a garage where a youngster by the name of John Barnard was keen to get into racing.
After leaving BRM at the end of the 1970 season, Jackie Oliver had joined Don Nichols' Shadow racing organisation in the USA to race its Can-Am sports-racing cars. Jackie was obviously yearning to get back into Formula 1 and he managed to talk Don into creating a new Shadow F1 team in the UK. He wanted me to design the new car.
Nothing existed of the team when I joined up in October 1972 – just me, Jackie Oliver, Alan Rees, Don Nichols and the name.
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