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Meanwhile, Shelby employee John Ohlsen had returned to England that spring to get married and was working at Willment’s race shop. Since the ex-New Zealand fabricator had been crew chief on Shelby American’s coupe in late 1963 – he had also suffered first-degree burns during the Holbert/MacDonald Daytona Coupe’s (CSX2287) pit fire in ...
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Wyer was born in Kidderminster, England in 1909. As team manager and team owner, Wyer won the 24 Hours of Le Mans several times. His first victory came in the 1959 edition, in his tenth anniversary as Aston Martin team manager, along with Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby, win with the DBR1. The team made their base for Le Mans at the Hotel De ...
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While working at GM Styling in Detroit during late ’50s, I’d spend my lunch hours in their still uncompleted library. There I discovered an obscure technical paper on automotive aerodynamics written in Germany in 1937. I couldn’t decipher the text but could understand the resulting numerical data. It was impressive. Why hadn’t this information ever...
Ironically, had it not been for Enzo Ferrari’s successful attempt two years earlier to deceive the FIA’s contest board, we’d never have been able to build our Daytona Coupe. The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, with its complex rules governing racing, required every manufacturer to submit a full set of technical documents describing in me...
In Modena, having received the news by phone, Ferrari was livid. Instead of flying immediately to Paris to protest in person (which would have indicated a subservient position to the FIA’s contest board), Ferrari got on the phone. He called the organizers of every race on the FIA calendar, explaining that the “vague wording” in Section 254 of the r...
Because Shelby’s Cobra roadster had been formally homologated by the FIA in ’62, it had now also become eligible for a completely new body under the rules change forced by Ferrari. Shelby’s initial skepticism, however, remained. Even as we completed the full-size buck on which the alloy panels would be formed, Remington’s sage advice created linger...
Remington remained negative on our coupe project but said nothing. The fact that Shelby had listened to Miles and then sold the whole concept to Goodyear didn’t sit well with him either, but Rem went along feeling his ever-valuable advice would be vindicated when the car was tested. It was about then that Shelby brought in a famed aerodynamicist, B...
John Wyer was a friend of Shelby and an important part of the 1964 Cobra European effort in every race except for Nurburgring and Le Mans where he ran his own cars, the new GT-40. Wyer also ran the GT-40 at Reims 1964 but he found time to help the Cobras there.
Oct 3, 2023 · It was kept as a future European base of operations under the leadership of famed team manager John Wyer. FAV was responsible for Ford’s 1964-’65 racing seasons and the production of customer GT40s, but the actual development and redesign of the radical, larger-engined Mk II version of the GT40 was moved to Dearborn.
Apr 26, 2018 · After two years of mechanical plagues, Ford got fed up and booted Wyer off the effort. Now, Shelby was in charge, and it worked—the 1-2-3 finish in 1966 proved it. Wyer didn’t give up, however. He went ahead with his own John Wyer Automotive Engineering team and developed his own race car, the Mirage Mk1, derived heavily from the GT40.
It was the only Team Shelby roadster entered in the world championship in 1965, and ended its FIA career with seven races and five wins – more than any other Cobra. CSX2345 won 1st in Class and the overall Post-war Preservation Class at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. After his Cobras finished 1-2-3 at Sebring in 1964, Shelby ...
