Alan mann racing biography
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Alan Mann Racing won numerous major championships including the British Saloon Car Championship, the europeisk Touring Car Challenge and the FIA World GT Championship for Manufacturers, all with a variety of specially prepared Ford cars. Many of the leading race and rally drivers of the time were employed by Alan Mann Racing, including Sir John Whitmore, Jacky Ickx, Bosse Ljungfeldt, Graham Hill, Frank Gardner , Sir Jackie Stewart and Bruce McLaren.
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It all started with a Ford Cortina. Alan Mann convinced a Ford dealer on the south coast of England to prepare a few cars for competition in order to, as the old saying goes, race on Sunday, sell on Monday.
According to Mann’s son Henry, the Cortinas were successful enough to catch the attention of Ford’s head office, which invited Mann and his Cortinas to the U.S. to compete in some hour endurance races.
With the help of some British drivers, they beat the Ford factory teams with the professional NASCAR drivers in V8-powered Falcons.
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“These little English, boxy saloons weren’t supposed to do that,” says Henry Mann. “So, I think it caught their attention, a little bit, that outside of America, there were people who knew how to prepare cars as well.”
Based on that performance, Ford gave Alan Mann the responsibility of preparing a Falcon for the Mont
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Alan Mann Racing
Alan Mann Racing was a British motor racing team organised by Alan Mann (22 August – 21 March ), who was a part-time racing driver and team manager. The team ran a substantial part of the Ford works racing effort in Europe from to ,[1] when it ceased operations. It was based in Byfleet, Surrey, near the Brooklands race circuit.
History
[edit]Alan Mann ran Ford Zephyrs and Anglias in under the entrant of Andrews Garage in British saloon car races. In he prepared a Ford Cortina GT under Alan Andrews Racing for Henry Taylor in racing and rallying in a quasi-Ford Team.
His team was included to run a Ford Cortina GT in the 3rd running of the Marlboro hour, at Marlboro Motor Raceway, US, in August with the express purpose of winning its class, as Volvo was reaping publicity from a string of victories. His Cortina, driven by Henry Taylor and Jimmy Blumer, came second to another Cortina of John Willment Automobiles driven by Jack Sears and Bob Olthof