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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 ...
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 ...
- It All Rides on Monza
- An Underdog with Bite
- Pride and Politics
- The Win That Never Was
- Second-String Success Story
- Plan B
Everything possible in both camps was being readied for the final confrontation at Monza, as that race was going to be the deciding factor. Bridgehampton, the last date on the FIA calendar, was essentially an inconsequential finale to the season because the winner on the Italian supertrack would have already secured enough points to put a lock on t...
Shelby had been the apparent underdog from the start of the 1964 season. His cars and team were unfamiliar with the European circuits, and he had only one of his controversial new Daytona Cobra Coupes ready for the opening round against Ferrari’s three GTOs at Daytona. Much to everyone’s surprise, the slippery Cobra Coupe was the class of the field...
With just days until Monza, Enzo Ferrari was in deep trouble. He knew from experience that Shelby’s four Daytona Cobra Coupes would be faster than his 250 GTOs. Because of this, he’d been trying since the first race of the season at Daytona to convince the FIA to legalize his latest, mid-engined 250 LMs–now with 3-liter engines–as “production GTs.”...
As a result of the Monza cancellation, the stillborn 390-powered Monza Coupe–chassis No. CSX 2286–never ran with its larger, lightweight engine. Its longer body had been finished at Carrozzeria Gransport in Modena, and its internals were hours from completion when the word came down that there would be no race. Instead, the almost-finished coupe wa...
Even more intriguing than the 1964 season’s very public Cobra/Ferrari war was an earlier, much quieter battle ongoing during the final months of the ’63 season–this one internally at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. Few now remember that just before the intense 1964-’65 seasons began, Henry Ford II actually tried to buy Enzo Ferrari’s entir...
Even with Shelby’s moral success in 1964, within Ford there was still a powerful management faction loyal to Holman & Moody and that team’s vast experience with Ford’s 427 NASCAR engines. Since Ford’s engineers had already decided that the sure way to beat the Ferrari P4 prototypes in the coming season was to re-engineer the GT40 chassis to accept ...
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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.
Jul 18, 2018 · Shelby Cobra Daytona (Image courtesy of HVA/Michael Furman Photography) Both Fitch and Hill had won the 12 Hours of Sebring three times each by the time this photo was taken. Fitch had beaten Hill to the punch. In 1953, Fitch had toppled the ruling class: the Aston Martin team and its DB3, to the surprise of team manager John Wyer.
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 ...
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Mar 6, 2023 · Our first project for Shelby, in 1962–long before Ford’s heavy financial involvement in late ’64–was to equip a couple of pretty but rather anemic English-built AC roadsters with Ford’s then all-new 289 V8. It turned them into fire-breathing Corvette-killers called Cobras. Meet the Man Who Penned the ’63 Corvette and Turned the ...
