![]() ![]() Parnelli Jones probably never dreamed when he was racing hot rods and jalopies in local race meets as a youth in Torrance, California that sleek Grand Prix cars bearing his name would someday challenge the best that Europe had to offer on racetracks around the world with glamorous-sounding names like Monaco, Buenos Aires, Anderstorp, Kyalami, Montjuich Park, Nurburgring, Monza and Zandvoort. In a two-part feature, Thomas O'Keefe looks at the reasons for this anomaly in his in-depth history of the last team, and the characters behind it, from those shores to competitively take the challenge to the Europeans. Formula One is the pinnacle of motor racing worldwide, and yet no North American team has successfully competed in the championship for decades. ![]()
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