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Chevron built eleven B39 Formula Atlantic cars. Examples were driven by Bobby Rahal and Keke Rosberg in the Formula Atlantic series and the Tasman Series.
British based Chevron Cars Ltd. was founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. After Bennett's death in 1978, the firm would continue to prosper in several different arenas, including building replacement parts and continuation models of earlier Chevrons. The early vehicles produced by Chevron were particularly successful in single seat competition series such as Formula Two, Formula Three and Formula 5000. The company never seriously competed in F1 (one F1 car was built ran only in national-level Aurora F1 championship in Britain).
The Formula Atlantic series was an open wheel racing program developed in the 1970s. It was used in It was used in professional racing through the IMSA Atlantic Championship until 2009 and is currently primarily used in amateur racing through Sports Car Club of America Formula Atlantic. Formula Atlantic began with the SCCA Formula B class created in 1965. It was a single-seat formula with engine capacity's not to exceed 1600cc in capacity.
Formula Atlantic evolved in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s from the US Formula B rules. It also specified production-based twin-cam engines of 1600cc capacity. It was conceived by John Webb of Brands Hatch as a series with performance similar to Formula two cars but with costs that were more in-line with that of a contemporary Formula Three car.
By Daniel Vaughan | Apr 2013
British based Chevron Cars Ltd. was founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. After Bennett's death in 1978, the firm would continue to prosper in several different arenas, including building replacement parts and continuation models of earlier Chevrons. The early vehicles produced by Chevron were particularly successful in single seat competition series such as Formula Two, Formula Three and Formula 5000. The company never seriously competed in F1 (one F1 car was built ran only in national-level Aurora F1 championship in Britain).
The Formula Atlantic series was an open wheel racing program developed in the 1970s. It was used in It was used in professional racing through the IMSA Atlantic Championship until 2009 and is currently primarily used in amateur racing through Sports Car Club of America Formula Atlantic. Formula Atlantic began with the SCCA Formula B class created in 1965. It was a single-seat formula with engine capacity's not to exceed 1600cc in capacity.
Formula Atlantic evolved in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s from the US Formula B rules. It also specified production-based twin-cam engines of 1600cc capacity. It was conceived by John Webb of Brands Hatch as a series with performance similar to Formula two cars but with costs that were more in-line with that of a contemporary Formula Three car.
By Daniel Vaughan | Apr 2013
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| VOLKSWAGEN MOTORSPORT TO CELEBRATE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF FORMULA VEE AT ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA | |
 | • Former stars of Formula Vee and Formula Super Vee will take to the track in historic cars, 50 years after the first official FV race Herndon, VA - Formula Vee will celebrate a big birthday at the Rolex 24 at Daytona this coming weekend (24–27January). Fifty years after the debut of the formula as an officially-sanctioned Sports Car Club of America race series, Volkswagen will return to the place where it all started with a number of significant car and drivers from the past. Among t...[Read more...] |
| TIMES ARE SET, GRIDS ARE FORMED | |
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| 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans: Facing the Giants | |
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| Vintage Racing Ushers In The 2012 Season At Road America | |
 | It has been 62 years since racers tore through the streets of this tiny village about 60 miles north of Milwaukee. Still, every spring you would swear that the town speed limit doesn't exist when the sounds of historic racecars from days gone by seem to echo throughout the hillside. May 18-20 the Spring Vintage Weekend returns to Road America and kicks-off the start of a summer full of racing, from vintage and historic cars to motorcycles and even NASCAR. Racing came to Elkhart Lake in 1950...[Read more...] |
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