The Mecom Racing Team was led by John Mecom Jr. and was active between 1960 and 1967 in the World Sportscar Championship racing, Formula One, and American Championship Car Racing scenes. The Mecom Racing Team and later the Mecom Group were led by John Mecom Jr.
John Mecom Jr. was known to have as many as seven different marques not only at the same event but in the same race. In the early 1960s the Mecom Racing Team had great success in the Bahamas Speed Weeks. Roger Penske, driving for Mecom in the early years, won in the Bahamas as well as the 12 Hours of Sebring in a Ferrari GTO with Augie Pabst. The Grand Sport Corvettes were also campaigned by Mecom with tremendous results.
The Mecom Group managed ex-Moto GP Champion Kevin Schwantz from bikes and into cars and team ownership. In 1966 Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500 while driving for John Mecom Jr. and the Mecom Team in their Lola-Ford.
The team also fielded a car for George Follmer in the 1966 Can-Am season.
John Mecom Jr. backed Danica Patrick in her transition from a 15-year-old kart racer to be a professional racing car driver in 1998, by providing full financial support and securing drives for her to race in England with help of long-time family friend and former Mecom team driver Jackie Stewart.[citation needed] This led to her subsequent involvement with Ford and then Rahal Letterman Racing.
American Championship Car Racing scenes. The MecomRacingTeam and later the Mecom Group were led by John Mecom Jr. John Mecom Jr. was known to have as...
that year because it was not ready, but was sold to the American MecomRacingTeam who raced it at Brands Hatch, where the Ford engine broke after only...
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failing to qualify. Ward left the Leader Card team mid-season and joined MecomRacingteam owned by John W. Mecom Jr. In 1966 Ward won the second race of the...
Kentucky Speedway, he tested the Dallara purchased by MecomRacingTeam from Target Chip Ganassi Racing and driven by Tony Stewart at the 2001 Indianapolis...
on April 3 at Eldora, and was forced to sit out the 1966 race. The MecomRacingTeam was scheduled to field drivers Walt Hansgen, Rodger Ward, and Jackie...
her being hired by John Mecom Jr. (introduced to Patrick by St. James two years earlier) to compete in the United Kingdom racing circuit. Patrick and her...
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death at Le Mans in France in 1966. He drove for Briggs Cunningham and John Mecom. Hansgen won the Formula Junior race at the inaugural United States Grand...
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franchise in New Orleans. John W. Mecom Jr., son of Texas oilman John W. Mecom Sr. and the owner of the MecomRacingTeam, was chosen over William G. Helis...
chief mechanic for the team run by oil magnate John W. Mecom Jr. for the Indianapolis 500. Graham Hill won the race for the team, while teammate Jackie...
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multiple broken bones. Pabst returned in 1963 racing for the MecomRacingTeam. The team took a victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring in the GT class. He...
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partnership with his son, Paul, he was team principal of the Stewart Grand Prix F1 racingteam. After retiring from racing, Stewart was an ABC network television...
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Innes Ireland moved to the BRP team (renamed UDT Laystall Racing). Double World Champion Jack Brabham started his own team, Brabham, at first running a...
points. The USAC Road Racing Championship folded at the end of the 1962 season, so Penske drove the car for John Mecom'sMecomRacingTeam in the SCCA National...
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