On The Grid – E

EAGLE

TEAM: EAGLE (ANGLO-AMERICAN RACERS)
NATIONALITY: USA
INCEPTION: 1966-1968
COMMENT: Anglo American Racers was a Formula One and Champ Car constructor from the USA owned by Dan Gurney and run from the Weslake factory at Rye. They participated in 25 Grands Prix, entering a total of 34 cars. The team was the Formula One arm of All American Racers, an organisation established in Santa Ana, California in 1964, by Dan Gurney, to run sportscars for him to drive in the United States between his Formula 1 commitments with the Brabham team. In that same year, Carroll Shelby, who was running Goodyear tires on his Cobra sportscars, introduced Gurney to the tiremaker because Goodyear wanted to take on Firestone at the Indianapolis 500. Gurney, responsible for bringing Colin Chapman and Lotus to Indianapolis, fielded an AAR Lotus 38 in the 1965 Indianapolis 500. A deal was struck and work began on an IndyCar for 1966. Gurney hired Len Terry, the designer of the Indianapolis-winning Lotus in 1965 and he laid out a mid-engined chassis, baptized Eagle, which would serve for both Formula 1 and Indycar racing. The result was the Eagle-Ford T2G for the US and the Eagle T1G for Formula 1.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Eagle-Climax/Weslake (7th 4 pts.)
1966 Dan Gurney USA 12th (4 pts.)
1966 Phil Hill USA NIL (Following his retirement, Hill built up an award winning classic car restoration business in the 1970s called Hill & Vaughn with business partner Ken Vaughn, until they sold the partnership to Jordanian Raja Gargour and Vaughn went on run a separate business on his own in 1984. Phil remained with Gargour at Hill & Vaughn until the sale of the business again in 1995. Hill also worked as a television commentator for ABC's Wide World of Sports.Hill had a long and distinguished association with Road & Track magazine. He wrote several articles for them, including road tests and retrospective articles on historic cars and races. He shared his "grand old man" status at R&T with '60s racing rival Paul Frère, who also died in 2008.Hill, in his last years, devoted his time to his vintage car collection and judged at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance more often than any other individual; 2007 was the 40th time he had judged the event. Hill was married to Alma, and had three children. After traveling to the Monterey Historic Automobile Races in August 2008, Hill was taken to a hospital, where he died after a short illness from complications of Parkinson's Disease in Salinas, California on August 28th.
1966 Bob Bondurant USA 14th (3 pts.) (CanAm/started the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving/Helicopter pilot/Baja 500/NASCAR. Continues being a driving instructor.)
Eagle-Weslake (7th 13 pts.)
1967 Dan Gurney USA 8th (13 pts.)
1967 Richie Ginther USA NIL (In his racing career, Giuther won 1 race, achieved 14 podiums, and scored a total of 107 championship points. He appeared in an unaccredited role in the 1966 movie “Grand Prix” as John Hogarth a driver in the Japanese funded “Yamura” team. He also acted as one of the technical racing advisors for the movie. While making an attempt to qualify for the 1967 Indy 500, Ginther decided he’d had enough and walked away from racing. Ginther broke a fuel line in his Indy All-American Eagle which sprayed a mix of ethanol and gasoline down his back. This experience, along with the memory of being burned earlier, led to his sudden retirement. He participated in a rally with sixty-five other competitors, including actor James Garner, in June 1969. The California Sports Car Club event was three hours cross country from Los Angeles to Huntington Beach. It benefited students from the Braille Institute. Ginther managed a Porsche 911-s with two American drivers during the 39th 24 hours of Le Mans, in June 1971. Richie Ginther died of a heart attack while on vacation with his family in France on September 20, 1989.
1967 Bruce McLaren AUS NIL (Started his own team, McLaren-BRM)
1967 Ludovico Scarfiotti I 21st (1 pt.) (Cooper-Maserati/Cooper-BRM)
Eagle/McLaren-Weslake/Ford (NIL)
1968 Dan Gurney USA 21st (3 pts.) (McLaren-Ford)

EIFELLAND

TEAM: EIFELLAND
NATIONALITY: D
INCEPTION: 1972-1972
COMMENT: Eifelland was a German Formula One team, named after German caravan manufacturer Eifelland based in Germany's Eifel mountains. Eifelland only participated in FIA Formula One World Championship in the 1972 Formula One season. Their driver was German Rolf Stommelen. The car was based on a March 721 Formula One car, redesigned by German designer Luigi Colani in his typical rounded
aerodynamical style. The car featured an air intake in front of the driver, with the air being guided around the cockpit to the engine. A single rear view mirror was mounted right before the driver. Problems with cooling etc. forced the team to replace some of Colani's designs with the regular parts from March.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Eifelland-Ford (NIL)
1972 Rolf Stommelen D NIL (Brabham-Cosworth)

EMERYSON

TEAM: EMERYSON
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1956/1961-1962
COMMENT:

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Emeryson-Alta (NIL)
1956 Paul Emery GB NIL (Connaught-Alta Straight)
Emeryson-Maserati (NIL)
1961 Andre Pilette F NIL (Lotus-Climax)
1961 Lucien Bianchi B NIL (Lotus-Climax)
1961 Olivier Gendebien F NIL (Ferrari)
Emeryson-Climax (NIL)
1962 Tony Settember USA NIL (Scirocco-BRM)
1962 Wolfgang Seidel D NIL (Lotus-BRM)

EMW

TEAM: EMW
NATIONALITY: D
INCEPTION: 1953-1953
COMMENT: Eisenacher Motorenwerk (EMW) was an East German manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles based in Eisenach. EMW also entered Formula One as a constructor in 1953, but participated in only one race, the 1953 German Grand Prix.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
EMW-
1953 Edgar Barth D NIL (Porsche)

ENB

TEAM: ENB
NATIONALITY: B
INCEPTION: 1962-1962
COMMENT: Ecurie Nationale Belge (also known as Equipe Nationale Belge or ENB) was a Formula One and sportscar racing team in the 1950s and 1960s, which was formed through a merger of Jacques Swaters' Ecurie Francorchamps and Johnny Claes' Ecurie Belge. In Formula One, the team used a variety of different chassis through the years: Ferrari, Cooper, Lotus, Emeryson as well as a car of their own construction, the ENB, which participated in a single World Championship Grand Prix, the 1962 German Grand Prix.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
ENB-Maserati (NIL)
1962 Lucien Bianchi B NIL (Lola-Climax)

ENSIGN RACING

TEAM: ENSIGN RACING
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1973-1982
COMMENT: They participated in 133 grands prix, entering a total of 155 cars. Ensign scored 19 championship points and no podium finish. The best result was a 4th place at the 1981 Brazilian Grand Prix by Marc Surer.The team was founded by Morris Nunn who also carried out design duties during the first two seasons of the team's existence. Nunn would later go on to be a prominent chief engineer in the American-based Champ Car series, winning championships with drivers Alex Zanardi and Juan Pablo Montoya in the late 1990s. After the end of the 1982 season, Ensign was merged into the Theodore team, which it had previous ties to via financier Teddy Yip, and took that team's name. During many seasons, the connection between Ensign and Theodore was so great that in some years they used almost the same car, akin to how Red Bull Racing has a second but separate team called Toro Rosso.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Ensign-Ford (NIL)
1973 Rikky von Opel NL NIL (Brabham-Ford during the ‘74 season)
Ensign-Ford (NIL)
1974 Vern Schuppan AUS NIL (Embassy/Graham Hill-Ford)
1974 Mike Wilds GB NIL (Stanley-BRM)
HB Bewaking Ensign-Ford (1 pt. 12th)
1975 Roelof Wunderink NL NIL (Retired from F.1)
1975 Gijs van Lennep NL 1 pt. (19th) for the team in Germany. (Porsche sports cars)
1975 Chris Amon NZ NIL
Ensign-Ford (2 pts. 12th)
1976 Chris Amon NZ 2 pts. (18th) (Walter Wolf-Williams)
1976 Patrick Neve B NIL (Williams-Ford)
1976 Hans Binder A NIL (Walter Wolf-Williams)
1976 Jacky Ickx B NIL
Team Tissot Ensign-Ford (10 pts. 10th)
1977 Clay Regazzoni CH 5 pts. (17th) (Shadow-Ford)
1977 Patrick Tambay F 18th (an Ensign chassis entered by Theodore Racing)
1977 Jacky Ickx B NIL
Team Tissot Ensign-Ford (1 pt. 13th)
1978 Danny Ongais USA NIL (Shadow-Ford)
1978 Lamberto Leoni I NIL (Formula 3 and Formula 2)
1978 Jacky Ickx B NIL (Ligier-Ford)
1978 Derek Daly GB Scored the only point.
1978 Nelson Piquet BR NIL (McLaren-Ford)
1978 Brett Lunger USA NIL (Retired from F.1)
Ensign-Ford (NIL)
1979 Derek Daly GB NIL (Tyrrell-Ford)
1979 Patick Gaillard F NIL (Formula 2/CanAm/Sports Cars)
1979 Marc Surer CH NIL (ATS-Ford)
Unipart Racing Team Ensign-Ford (NIL)
1980 Clay Regazzoni CH NIL (During the Long Beach G.P., the car’s throttle jammed open along the flat-out Shoreline Drive. With nowhere to turn, Regazzoni drove into the escape lane and into a concrete wall at top speed, resulting in partial paralysis and consequently, wheelchair bound. He was forced to retire from F.1. Regazzoni did not stop racing, however; he competed in the Paris-Dakar rally and Sebring 12 hours using a hand controlled car during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996, Regazzoni was refused entry into the World Sportscar Championship by the FIA and became a commentator for Italian and Swiss TV. He died in a car accident in Italy on December 15, 2006.
1980 Tiff Needell GB NIL (Sports Cars)
1980 Jan Lammers NL NIL (ATS-Ford)
Ensign-Ford (5 pts. 11th)
1981 Marc Surer CH 4 pts. (16th) (Arrows-Ford)
1981 Eliseo Salazar CHILE 1 pt. (18th) (ATS-Ford)
Ensign-Ford (NIL)
1982 Roberto Guerrero COL NIL (Theodore Racing)

ERA

TEAM: ERA
NATIONALITY: GB
INCEPTION: 1952
COMMENT: English Racing Automobiles (ERA) was a British racing car manufacturer active from 1933 to 1954. Currently the ERA trademark is owned by a British kit-car manufacturer.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
ERA-Bristol Straight (NIL)
1952 Stirling Moss GB NIL (Connaught-Lea Francis Straight)

EUROBRUN

TEAM: EUROBRUN
NATIONALITY: I
INCEPTION: 1988-1990
COMMENT: EuroBrun was a Formula One constructor from Senago, Milan, Italy, with an Italio-Swiss ownership. They participated in 46 grands prix, entering a total of 76 cars. The team was a combination of two outfits - the mechanical manpower and skill of Giampaolo Pavanello's Euroracing team, who had also ran the Alfa Romeo Formula One team in 1984-85, and the financial muscle and organisational skill of Swiss Walter Brun, who ran the Brun Motorsport sports car team. Despite failing to start a single race in 1989, the team returned in 1990 with two cars once again. After 14 rounds, the team withdrew from the Formula One Championship, having made only 21 starts from 76 entries.

YEAR NAME NAT. POINTS/RESULTS
Eurobrun-Ford (NIL)
1988 Oscar Larrauri ARG NIL
1988 Stefano Modena I NIL (Brabham-Judd)
Eurobrun-Judd (NIL)
1989 Oscar Larrauri ARG NIL (Sports car racing/World Sportscar Championship/IMSA GT Championship/DTM/All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship)
1989 Gregor Foitek CH NIL (Rial near the end of the season)
Eurobrun-Judd (NIL)
1990 Roberto Moreno BR NIL (Benetton-Ford at the end of the season)
1990 Claudio Langes I NIL (He failed to qualify 14 times, making Langes the least successful Formula One driver. Switched to Touring Car racing.)