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    John Wyer (11 December 1909 – 8 April 1989), was an English automobile racing engineer and team manager. He is mainly associated with cars running in...
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    triumph with Duesenberg at the 1921 French Grand Prix. The Mk I raced by John Wyer JWA Gulf team, chassis #P-1075, won in 1968 and 1969, the oldest of the...
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  • Wyer is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: Doug Wyer (born 1947), English speedway rider John Wyer (1909–1989), automobile racing engineer...
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    of Argentina and the Sports Car Club of America. This is where he met John Wyer, Aston Martin's team manager, who asked Shelby to drive their DBR3 at...
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    The Mirage Lightweight Racing Car was a family of racing cars built by John Wyer Automotive Engineering (JWAE) in Slough, England, initially to compete...
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    a team endeavour than an individual sport, with team managers such as John Wyer, Tom Walkinshaw, driver-turned-constructor Henri Pescarolo, Peter Sauber...
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    Brabham, partly at the instigation of the John Wyer team for whom he'd had considerable success in sports cars. Wyer's main sponsor, Gulf Oil were keen to ensure...
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    the GT40 program to Shelby American from Carroll Shelby's old associate John Wyer (who ran the Aston Martin racing program when Shelby won Le Mans in 1959)...
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    McLaren/Mike Spence in the new Ford, but none finished. It was the updated John Wyer-entered Ford GT40 of Jacky Ickx/Brian Redman which won ahead of the remaining...
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  • Championship season, representing Porsche in motorsport. In 1970, the team of John Wyer was the designated factory partner. The Porsche factory itself did not...
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    As a result, old 2.2-litre Porsche 907s often won that category, with John Wyer's 4.7-litre Ford GT40 Mk.I taking wins at faster tracks. Starting in July...
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    Switzerland was attended by 50,000 people and a Gulf-Porsche 917 of Team John Wyer led the hearse and procession through the streets of Fribourg. Benoit...
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    Championships in 1968, driving a Ford GT40 with Belgian Jacky Ickx for John Wyer Automotive Engineering. Redman also won the 1970/71 South African Springbok...
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    victory after Denny Hulme had had a lengthy pit stop and local privateer John Love's Tasman Cooper needed a late fuel stop. Rindt, by contrast, retired...
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    Porsche) and his team brought 4 908/03's to the island; 3 were given to John Wyer and his factory-supported team and 1 was run as an official works car...
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    and produced a maximum of 630 hp. The favorite team to win, Gulf-backed John Wyer Automotive, lined up three 917Ks, two with the 4.9-liter engine, and one...
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    weather of Arizona. In 1873, she married soldier John Wyer Summerhayes, a veteran of the American Civil War. Wyer Summerhayes was still in the military when...
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  • 1925–1926 Raymond Sommer 1932–1933 Ecurie Ecosse 1956–1957 Shelby American Inc. 1966–1967 John Wyer Automotive Engineering 1968–1969 AF Corse 2023–2024...
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    headquarters for Le Mans racing teams, most notably by teams managed by John Wyer. Wyer ran the victorious Aston Martin and Gulf Oil teams from the hotel,...
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    driver Pedro Rodríguez had been lost to Porsche's JWA Gulf Racing of John Wyer, and to BRM in F1, while another former works racer, Chris Amon was now...
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    subsequently allowed to progress to Formula Atlantic in 1971. Hunt later met with John Hogan and racing driver Gerry Birrell to obtain sponsorship from Coca-Cola...
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    Retrieved 29 March 2008. Racing With The David Brown Aston Martin's by John Wyer ISBN 0-85184-036-1 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aston Martin...
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  • pre-war lady racer, Kay Petre, Collins managed to inveigle himself with John Wyer, the team principal at Aston Martin, earning his test drive at Silverstone...
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  • 1995, page 260 Season: 1971 (International Championship for Makes), www.racingsportscars.com 1970 - A year to rememeber - John Wyer's Gulf Porsche team...
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    factory team for the Manufacturers' Championship that year; however, the John Wyer team running the Group 4 GT40s brought home the title for Ford and in...
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    synonymous for its association with auto racing, as it famously sponsored the John Wyer Automotive team in the 1960s and early '70s. The signature light blue...
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    he finished second in the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, this time for the John Wyer privateer team. At the end of the season, after also winning the 1000km...
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    NART also ran their older modified-P2 again. After the success in 1966, John Wyer and Ford had split amicably. J.W. Automotive had purchased the Ford Advanced...
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    employed as Eberhorst's assistant, presented an alternative design to John Wyer, Aston Martin's competitions manager, whose assistance was needed as Eberhorst...
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    handled by Kar Kraft in the US and Ford Advanced Vehicles in the UK (run by John Wyer with a number of ex-Aston Martin staff). After no wins in the 1964 season...
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