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66-600: All American Racers is an American-licensed auto racing team and constructor based in Santa Ana, California . Founded by Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby in 1964, All American Racers initially participated in American sports car and Champ Car races as well as international Formula One events with cars named Eagle . The Formula One team, based in the United Kingdom and using British-built Weslake engines

132-550: A Modified at Roswell Speedway. In 1950, at the age of 15, he won his first championship in Southwest Modified Stock Cars. In 1955, Bobby and brothers Jerry and Al Unser decided to pursue racing careers in USAC . In 1959, his brother Jerry Unser died in a practice crash for the 1959 Indianapolis 500 . He debuted in 1955 at Pike's Peak, dubbed "Unser's Peak" because of his family's history of success at

198-629: A book, Winners are Driven: A Champion's Guide to Success in Business and Life . Unser was a television broadcaster for 20 years after his retirement from racing. He was a television commentator for IndyCar races after his retirement working for NBC , ABC , and ESPN . Unser also worked as the analyst for the IMS Radio Network in 1986 . In 1989 , the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded ABC's telecast of

264-461: A chassis produced by another constructor (respectively Benetton , Ferrari , Red Bull Racing and Honda ). No action was taken against any of these teams, the sporting authorities being satisfied in each case that the team owned the intellectual property to the chassis they raced. From the middle of the 1973 season (the 1973 Belgian Grand Prix ) until the end of the 2013 season, each team had permanent racing numbers from race to race throughout

330-583: A constructor ( Matra ) to win the World Constructors' Championship and a driver ( Jackie Stewart ) to win the World Drivers' Championship . The following are privateer teams which never built their own chassis, and thus were not constructors : * All constructor's wins ** First win for the constructor *** Team's only championship race Bobby Unser He was the nephew of Louis Unser , brother of Al, Jerry Unser and Louie Unser,

396-442: A falling-out between Pat Patrick , Andretti's car owner and owner of Patrick Racing, and Roger Penske (owner of Unser's car), in order to destroy CART . He claimed that Patrick's team did not protest the finish and that Patrick was on Unser's side in the controversy. For years, Unser and Andretti did not speak to each other willingly until early 2017 when Unser announced on his YouTube channel that Andretti reached out to wish him

462-399: A few cases on closed city streets . Constructors are awarded points based on the finishing position of each of their two drivers at each Grand Prix, and the constructor who accumulates the most points over each championship is crowned that year's World Constructors' Champion . As of the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix , there have been 172 Formula One constructors who have raced at least one of

528-819: A ride and I always be indebted to him." Unser made his IndyCar debut in 1962 (excluding the Pikes Peak races which were part of the IndyCar season in the 1950s). He raced for Andy Granatelli between 1963 and 1965 with a Novi engine . Unser raced in his first Indianapolis 500 in 1963. He crashed early and placed 33rd. Unser's second Indianapolis 500 in 1964 ended on the second lap in the crash that killed Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald . Unser moved to an IndyCar owned by Bob Willke from 1966 until 1970. His first IndyCar win came in 1967 at Mosport , in Ontario . A year later, Unser won his first Indianapolis 500 , setting

594-413: A single sports car class win (1963). Unser came from a family of racecar drivers. He won numerous racing championships throughout his career, including three Indianapolis 500 titles. When asked in 2008 about his potential to move from midget and sprint cars, Unser said, "I never considered Indianapolis because I didn't think I was good enough. But Rufus ( Parnelli Jones ) told me I was going and he got me

660-671: A specialist company, not itself entered in the championship, has been commissioned to design and build a chassis for a team, e.g. Lola built cars for the Larrousse team ( 1987 - 1991 ) and the Scuderia Italia team ( 1993 ) and Dallara built cars for the Scuderia Italia team ( 1988 - 1992 ). Larousse had their points from the 1990 season erased after the FIA decided that they had falsely nominated themselves and not Lola as

726-461: A storm blinded them both. When the second snowmobile stopped working, they spent two days and nights in subzero weather before finding a barn where they were found. Both men were suffering badly; his friend was suffering from hypothermia , and Unser had vomited blood during this time. Unser was later convicted of a Federal misdemeanor, "unlawful operation of a snowmobile within a National Forest Wilderness Area" (16 U.S.C. 551, 36 C.F.R. 261.16(a)), and

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792-600: Is the highest class of open-wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The formula in the name alludes to a series of rules established by the FIA to which all participants and vehicles are required to conform. Each year, the F1 World Championship season is held, consisting of a series of races, known as Grands Prix , held usually on purpose-built circuits , and in

858-542: Is the only win for a USA-built car as well as one of only two wins of an American-licensed constructor in Formula One. The Eagle- Weslake was a beautiful and efficient car, one example of which was constructed in titanium and exotic alloys . More than this, the Eagle was designed to make the tall Gurney fit comfortably at the wheel. Their efforts produced a V12 that was smooth and powerful. At Monza, an insight into

924-547: The 1967 season Richie Ginther was signed as a second driver. The Climax engine was replaced by a new 3-liter Weslake V12 engine designed by Aubrey Woods and built in Great Britain by Weslake . At the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix Gurney achieved the first "all-American" victory in a Grand Prix since Jimmy Murphy ´s triumph with Duesenberg at the 1921 French Grand Prix . Excluding the Indianapolis 500 , this

990-473: The 1968 season the team's nationality also determined the colour of a car entered by the team; thus, Italian teams' cars were rosso corsa red, French were bleu de France blue, and British (with several exceptions, such as cars entered by teams Rob Walker , Brabham and McLaren ) were British racing green . Since the licence is given to a team and not to a constructor, privateer teams entering cars built by constructors from another country before

1056-461: The 1974 season when the permanent racing numbers were assigned to each team in pairs, with the third car having the racing number out of the pair. Entering more than three cars was exceptionally tolerated, most notably regarding the BRM team in the 1971 and 1972 seasons. However, many teams during this period entered only two cars, e.g. Ferrari have entered no more than two cars (with one exception at

1122-430: The 1976 Italian Grand Prix in connection with Lauda 's comeback) every season since 1973 . Since the 1985 season the FIA have required that teams enter no more than two cars for a race; during this season Renault became the last team to have entered three cars for a race at the 1985 German Grand Prix , but only two of their cars were eligible for championship points. Unlike drivers who are required to compete in

1188-429: The 1997 German Grand Prix Benetton became the only team to have achieved victories while racing under two different nationalities. The team's nationality, determined by a racing licence that a team holds, subsequently determines a national anthem played after a race on the podium in honour of a winning team following a national anthem played in honour of a winning driver. Before the arrival of sponsorship liveries in

1254-570: The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix and 2009 Chinese Grand Prix respectively. Note: Until 1965 a works team of every constructor was licensed in the country where it was really based. In 1965 Japanese-licensed Honda moved their works team from Tokyo, Japan to Amsterdam, Netherlands, followed in 1966 by the American-licensed Anglo American Racers team which was based in Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom. Since

1320-769: The FIA or race organisers, e.g. Wolf holding the Canadian nationality and Shadow (in 1973 ) and Penske both holding the American nationality all identified as the British teams by official entry lists, or the British national anthem played on the podium in honour of the Irish-licensed Jordan team and the Austrian-licensed Red Bull team when they achieved their maiden victories at

1386-671: The IMSA GT Championship with specially-modified Toyota Celicas . In 1988, the team moved up to the GTP category with two chassis – a modified Toyota 88C Group C car and a team-designed Eagle HF89 purpose-built for IMSA competition. AAR experienced its greatest success in GTP competition with the Eagle MkIII , introduced in 1991. Powered by a turbocharged 2.1-liter Toyota inline-4 developing up to 800 horsepower and generating 10,000 pounds of downforce at 200 mph,

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1452-624: The Indianapolis 500 the Sports Emmy Award for " Outstanding Live Sports Special ". Unser received announcer honors with Paul Page and Sam Posey . Unser was announcing in the booth for his brother Al's record-tying fourth Indy 500 victory in 1987 and Al's 1985 CART championship. He also called his nephew Al Jr.'s first Indy 500 victory in the 1992 Indianapolis 500 and second in 1994 . Unser also broadcast several NASCAR events between 1986 and 1992 alongside Page and Benny Parsons . The most famous NASCAR race Unser broadcast

1518-646: The works team of respective constructor was licensed;  Races Entered = Number of individual races entered;  Races Started = Number of individual races started;  Drivers = Number of drivers ;  Total Entries = Total number of race entries;  Wins = Number of races won;  Points = Number of Constructors' Championship points scored;  Poles = Number of pole positions ;  FL = Number of fastest laps ;  Podiums . = Number of podium finishes;  WCC = Constructors' Championships won;  WDC = Drivers' Championships won. The following are constructors whose only participation

1584-513: The 1,123 FIA World Championship races since the first such event, the 1950 British Grand Prix . Constructors are people or corporate entities which design key parts of Formula One cars that have competed or are intended to compete in the FIA World Championship . Since 1981 , it has been a requirement that each competitor must have the exclusive rights to the use of certain key parts of their car; in 2018 , these parts were

1650-562: The 1968 season painted cars in the national colour of their home country, e.g. the French Guy Ligier 's privateer team entered cars painted in bleu de France blue in 1966 and 1967 seasons despite the fact that they were built by the British constructor Cooper . Relating to the team's nationality because of teams' bases in Britain several mistakes occurred on official entry lists issued by or podium ceremonies organized by

1716-602: The 1981 Spanish Grand Prix the Equipe Banco Occidental team became the last privateer team to have entered a car for a race alongside a works team when they entered a Williams car alongside the Williams works team. During the period of the 1950 – 1981 seasons, privateer teams won 20 World Championship races in total. Only once (the Matra International team in 1969 ) a privateer team helped

1782-525: The FIA Formula One World Championship under the nationality of their passport and in case of a multiple citizenship they can choose their "official" nationality, the FIA's International Sporting Code states that teams competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship shall compete under the nationality of their parent National Automobile Club that issued their FIA racing licence. On the basis of this regulation, despite

1848-729: The Formula 1 operations, Gurney established the Anglo American Racers team, based in Rye, East Sussex , UK , though the cars were built in Santa Ana, California , USA by the All American Racers team. The Eagle T1G car, powered by an obsolete Coventry Climax engine, debuted at the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix and scored its first points with a fifth place three weeks later at the French Grand Prix . For

1914-517: The Listed Parts set out in Appendix 6. The make of an engine or chassis is the name attributed to it by its constructor." These "listed parts" include the survival cell, the front impact structure, the roll structures and bodywork. However, if the chassis and engine are made by different entities, the constructor comprises both (e.g. McLaren - Mercedes , Lotus - Climax etc.), with the name of

1980-661: The MkIII won 21 of the 27 races in which it was entered – a record so dominant that it has been blamed for the collapse of the GTP series. AAR created a special Trans-Am Series version of the Plymouth Barracuda , running in the 1970 season with drivers Dan Gurney and Swede Savage . A homologation special production edition was offered in 1970. ( key ) ( key ) ( key ) ( key ) (results in bold indicate pole position) List of Formula One constructors#Team's nationality Formula One , abbreviated to F1,

2046-632: The World Constructors' Championship (then officially as the International Cup for Formula One Constructors ); since the 1979 season points from all cars entered by each constructor have counted towards their championship total. Since the 1981 season the FIA have required that Formula One entrants own the intellectual rights to the chassis that they enter, and so the distinction between the terms "entrant" and "constructor", and hence also "team", have become less pronounced, though

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2112-424: The World Constructors' Championship. Under article 6.2 of the FIA sporting regulations, "The title of Formula One World Champion Constructor will be awarded to the competitor which has scored the highest number of points". From the inaugural season of the World Constructors' Championship in 1958 up until the 1978 season only the highest-scoring driver in each race for each constructor contributed points towards

2178-537: The age of 87 at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico from natural causes. Page spoke at his funeral service; Andretti and Roger Penske spoke via videotape. Pallbearers outside of the Unser family include Willy T. Ribbs , Johnny Rutherford , and Rick Galles . He was interred at Sunset Memorial Park. Unser was the father of two sons, Bobby Jr. and Robby, and two daughters, Cindy and Jeri. Unser coached Robby for

2244-513: The best after Unser got extremely sick. Unser was the 1975 International Race of Champions (IROC) champion and won the 1993 Fast Masters championship. Unser challenged Dan Gurney to improve the performance of his 1971 USAC car, leading to the development of the Gurney flap . In 1993, Unser set a new Bonneville Salt Flats record at Bonneville Speedway of 223.709 in a D/Gas Modified Roadster that stood for 18 years. In 2003, he published

2310-528: The championship and Indianapolis 500 . In 1980 he became the first driver to win the California 500 four times. Unser won four times in 1980 and finished second in the season championship to Johnny Rutherford . His career ended in 1981 following a controversial win at Indianapolis. Unser was the center of one of the most controversial finishes in Indy 500 history at the 1981 Indianapolis 500 . Unser won

2376-549: The chassis constructor being placed before that of the engine constructor. As both chassis and engine are included in the constructor name, chassis run with different engines are counted as two separate constructors and score points separately. This occurred for the last time in the 1985 season when the Tyrrell team ran their chassis powered by both Ford and Renault engines, scored points with both engines and thus finishing 9th as Tyrrell-Ford and 10th as Tyrrell-Renault in

2442-635: The chassis constructor. In 1978 , the new Arrows team which had been established by former Shadow personnel was sued by Shadow on the grounds that the Arrows FA/1 car was a copy of Shadow's DN9 – a view upheld by the UK High Court , which placed a ban on Arrows racing the FA/1. There have been more recent cases with Ligier (1995), Sauber (2004), Scuderia Toro Rosso (2006–2007) and Super Aguri (2007–2008) where teams have been accused of using

2508-996: The early 2000s most teams have been based in the United Kingdom, and either licensed there or in another country, with the rest based in Italy (Maranello and Faenza) and Switzerland (Hinwil). Key: Licensed in = Country in which the works team of respective constructor is licensed;  Races Entered = Number of individual races entered;  Races Started = Number of individual races started;  Drivers = Number of drivers ;  Total Entries = Total number of race entries;  Wins = Number of races won;  Points = Number of World Constructors' Championship points scored;  Poles = Number of pole positions ;  FL = Number of fastest laps ;  Podiums = Number of podium finishes;  WCC = World Constructors' Championships won;  WDC = World Drivers' Championships won. Key: Licensed in = Country in which

2574-853: The fact that most current teams are based in the UK, this country is officially represented in Formula One only by teams holding a racing licence issued by the British National Sporting Authority . Teams take the nationality of their parent National Automobile Club that issued their licence for the period of validity of that licence and the change of the nationality is allowed. Several teams changed their nationality during their competition in Formula One, some of them even twice (e.g. Shadow in 1976 from American to British, Benetton in 1996 from British to Italian, Red Bull in 2007 from British to Austrian, Renault in 2011 from French to British and in 2016 back to French ). At

2640-454: The fastest qualifying time at 195.940 miles per hour (315.335 km/h). Teams were allowed to bolt on a wing for the first time and speeds rose significantly (the previous record speed was 178.696 miles per hour (287.583 km/h)). Unser won nine pole positions (in ten races) and won four of the races. In 1974, he won his second USAC National Driving Championship. In 13 races, Unser won four times, took second four times, and finished in

2706-419: The father of Robby Unser and the uncle of Al Unser Jr. and Johnny Unser . The Unser family has won the Indianapolis 500 a record nine times, with Bobby and Al Unser Sr. being the only set of brothers to win in the race's history. Bobby Unser was one of ten drivers to have won the 500 three or more times and the first of two (followed by Rick Mears ) to have won in three decades (1968, 1975, 1981). Unser

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2772-494: The future of engine design was seen for the first time. The engine had four valves per cylinder at a narrow included angle (thirty degrees) that allowed a single cover to enclose both the close-spaced camshafts on each bank. The sixty-degree-vee layout had a larger bore than stroke (72.8 X 60mm). Gurney's program ran out of money in 1968 and by the end of the year he returned to the United States to concentrate his efforts on

2838-415: The hill climb. He finished fifth that year, behind his two brothers. A year later, he won his first championship at Pikes Peak . He won six straight titles from 1958 to 1963. His streak ended in 1964 when his younger brother Al won the race. He leads the all-time Pikes Peak International Hill Climb champion's list with 10 overall wins , having set a new track record eight times. Unser's record time

2904-516: The intellectual rights of engines may still be owned by a different entity. That season also saw the International Cup for Formula One Constructors be officially renamed to the World Constructors' Championship . Before this time, constructors were free to sell their chassis to as many other teams as they liked. Brabham and Lotus chassis were used extensively by other teams during the 1960s and 1970s and several quite competitive privateer teams never built their own chassis. Rob Walker Racing Team

2970-402: The late 1960s and 1970s. Eagles won 51 Champ Car races, including the 1968 and 1975 Indy 500's won by Bobby Unser and the 1973 race won by Gordon Johncock . During this two-decade period, Bobby Unser, who drove Eagle cars for most of his teams, joined AAR as the sole driver, winning the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Unser also claimed 22 wins and 52 podiums with Eagle cars. After Unser's departure from

3036-468: The more successful Indycar program, in which Bobby Unser had won the Indianapolis 500 and the 1968 Indycar Championship. A non-works version briefly appeared with privateer Al Pease in the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix , but Pease became noticed for all the wrong reasons and made history as the only F1 driver ever disqualified for being too slow. During the USAC years, the Eagle chassis was very successful in

3102-476: The number 1 and his teammate the number 2, and the team that had previously had those numbers switching to the newly vacated ones. Between 1996 and 2013 the numbers were based on the teams' finishing positions in the Constructors' Championship from the previous season, with numbers 1 and 2 assigned to the defending champion and his teammate. During the period of 1974–1995 Tyrrell was the only team to keep

3168-543: The only other car on the lead lap at the end. After a five-month lawsuit and protest by Penske, Unser was re-awarded the win in October 1981. For his infraction, Unser was instead fined $ 40,000 ($ 134,000 in today's money). Unser retired during off-season testing for Pat Patrick at Phoenix. In his autobiography Winners are Driven , Unser expressed his beliefs that the debacle was politically motivated and that USAC disqualified him (and benefited Andretti), hoping to start

3234-463: The pole in the No. 3 Roger Penske -owned car and led the most laps (89 laps). On lap 149, during a caution period, Unser and Mario Andretti made their pit stops and headed back to the race. Unser passed eight cars during the caution, while Andretti passed two cars. Unser won the race by 5.18 seconds, but was stripped of it the following morning in favor of second-place finisher Andretti. Andretti drove

3300-489: The race weekend. As a result of this preparation role and active involvement in the running of the race, the term "team" has become commonly applied to an entrant organisation. Statisticians do not always agree on how to count statistics related to these entities. Under Article 6.3 of the FIA Sporting Regulations, "A constructor is the person (including any corporate or unincorporated body) which designs

3366-548: The record as the first driver to race over 170 miles per hour at Indianapolis. In 1968, Unser worked with crew chief Jud Phillips and won his first USAC National Driving Championship with wins at Stardust International Raceway , Phoenix Raceway , Trenton Speedway , Indy, and the Pikes Peak Hill Climb . In 1972, Unser started working for Dan Gurney 's All American Racers team and a John Miller Offenhauser engine. He set another Indianapolis 500 record for

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3432-480: The record for the most Grand Prix starts with 1096. The most recent constructor to make their debut was RB , which debuted at the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix . In Formula One racing the terms "constructor" and "entrant" have specific and differing meanings. An entrant is the person or corporate entity that registers a car and driver for a race, and is then responsible for preparing and maintaining that car during

3498-405: The same numbers (3 and 4) every season. Since 2014 , racing numbers have been assigned to drivers instead of teams. The number of cars entered by one team into a single race was not strictly limited in the 1950s and early 1960s. Since the 1963 season teams were generally allowed to enter only two regular cars, with the third car reserved for an occasional driver. This rule was further promoted in

3564-479: The season. Between the 1974 and 1995 seasons the numbers were based on the teams' finishing positions in the 1973 Constructors' Championship (with slight modifications, e.g. Ferrari's traditional numbers were 11–12 until 1980 and 27–28 from 1981 onwards) and each team only changed numbers if they had the driver who had won the World Drivers' Championship in the previous season – the winning driver taking

3630-488: The survival cell, the front impact structure, the roll structures and bodywork. Ferrari holds the record for the most Constructors' and Drivers' Championships won with sixteen and fifteen, respectively. Ferrari also holds the record for the most wins by a constructor with 248, the most pole positions with 253, the most points with 10256, and the most podiums with 826. Ferrari has also entered more Grands Prix than any other constructor with 1098 entries and also maintains

3696-427: The team for Team Penske , All American Racers started to lose their edge in IndyCar competition. Mike Mosley won a few races for the team before being dismissed at the end of 1982. By 1984, AAR merged with Mike Curb 's team to form Curb-All American Racers. After a two-year partnership with Curb, Gurney and Curb parted ways, and this marked the beginning of the end of AAR's time in IndyCar. The All American Racers team

3762-595: The top five twelve times. In the 1975 Indianapolis 500 , he won his second 500 in a race that was rain-shortened on lap 174 because of torrential rains. Unser won twice in 1976 as part of the Fletcher Racing Team . He remained on Gurney's team until 1979. From 1979 to 1981, Unser raced in the CART series for Team Penske . Roger Penske wanted a proven winner to join his young driver Rick Mears . Unser won six times to Mears' three wins but Mears won

3828-556: Was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado , the son of Mary Catherine (Craven) and Jerome Henry Unser, the third oldest of four brothers. When he turned one, his family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where his father started a garage on U.S. Route 66 . From 1953 to 1955, he served in the United States Air Force and became a top competition sharpshooter in military matches. Unser began racing in 1949 in

3894-511: Was broken by Michele Mouton , so Audi approached Unser asking if he would want to attempt to take the record back. In 1986, after a 12-year absence from the Pikes Peak race, he won the event for the tenth time driving an Audi Quattro. He eclipsed Mouton's time by 16 seconds. The win also broke the tie he had with his Uncle Louis Unser for nine overall victories each. The 1986 win brought Unser's total number of Pikes Peak victories to 13, including two stock car class victories (1969 and 1974) and

3960-612: Was codeveloped with the Eagle T1G for Formula 1. After exiting Formula One in 1968 and concentrating on Champ Car, Eagle turned to sports car racing in the 1980s, partnering with Toyota to develop the Celica and later sports prototypes for the IMSA GT Championship . The company built the Ben Bowlby-designed DeltaWing that was run by Highcroft Racing at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans . In order to run

4026-434: Was fined $ 75. Maximum penalties could have been up to six months in jail and up to $ 5,000.00 in fines. Unser appealed, claiming to have been lost before the accident, but the court ruled that maps were widely available and it was a public welfare offense, thus intent was not necessary. Unser appealed this decision all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court , but his writ of certiorari was denied. Unser died on May 2, 2021, at

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4092-663: Was in the Indianapolis 500 from 1950 to 1960 when the race was part of the Formula One World Drivers' Championship . All were based in the United States. From the inaugural 1950 British Grand Prix until the 1981 Spanish Grand Prix numerous privateer teams entered cars, built by another companies as their constructors, in World Championship events. Some of them, such as Tyrrell and Williams , later began to build their own chassis and thus became constructors as well as works teams . At

4158-417: Was inactive in single-seaters from 1987 to 1995 and returned in 1996 again building their own chassis and using new Toyota engines. However, this new effort, a combination of new and untested equipment, did not prove to be successful, never winning a race and collecting only occasional top-tens. The team ceased active racing after the 1999 CART season. Gurney's team was contracted by Toyota in 1983 to enter

4224-510: Was named Anglo American Racers . Under team manager Bill Dunne they set up shop in Rye, East Sussex . The team were adjacent to Harry Weslake's engine development plant and half a mile from Elva cars . They participated in 25 Grands Prix, entering a total of 34 cars. The first Eagles were created after AAR entered a Goodyear -backed Lotus 38 in the 1965 Indianapolis 500 and Gurney hired former Lotus designer Len Terry to develop their own car for 1966. The resulting Ford -powered Eagle T2G

4290-454: Was the 1989 The Winston in which Rusty Wallace won by wrecking Darrell Waltrip with 2 laps to go; Unser was the first broadcaster of the broadcasting team to spot the post-race fist-fight between Wallace and Waltrip's pit crews. On December 20, 1996 in Colorado , Unser and a friend became lost while snowmobiling near Unser's New Mexico ranch. They abandoned one stuck snowmobile before

4356-425: Was the most successful example, being responsible for the first victories in Formula One for both Cooper and Lotus. The concept of a "works" or "factory" team (i.e. the official team of the company producing the cars, as opposed to a customer team which buys them off the shelf) therefore applied to chassis in the same way as it does in rallying and sports car racing . There have been some recent exceptions where

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