Andretti terminated his relationship with Miletich and Parnelli Jones that day, but the next morning, by accident, joined Lotus team manager Colin Chapman for breakfast in a Long Beach coffee shop, where the two forged an agreement.

Their Parnelli VPJ4 car owed much to Philippe's Lotus 72 design.

By 1975 Barnard had been hired by Parnelli Jones to work alongside Maurice Philippe designing the team's Formula One racer which campaigned from 1974 to 1976.

After Philippe left Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing, Barnard modified the design for the Indycar circuit.

* 1933 – Parnelli Jones, American race car driver

The track doctor at Riverside International Raceway pronounced Foyt dead at the scene of the severe crash, but fellow driver Parnelli Jones revived him after seeing movement.

A lap down in fifth was British driver John Watson in a Penske PC3 with Mario Andretti sixth in a Parnelli VPJ4B.

Crash crews assumed Foyt was dead at the scene, until fellow driver Parnelli Jones noticed a twitch of movement.

The speedway Board of Directors when the track opened consisted of Chairman Dan Lufkin, of Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette ; CEO David Lockton ; Donald Riehl, of DLJ ; William Loorz, CEO of Stolte Construction ; Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, and Dick Smothers from the entertainment industry ; J. C. Agajanian, an American motor sport promoter and race car owner ; Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner of the Indianapolis 500 ; Roger Penske, retired race car driver, race car owner and auto related business entrepreneur ; Briggs Cunningham, an American sportsman who raced cars and yachts ; and Chuck Barnes, Chairman and CEO of Sports Headliners, and former Director of Public Relations for Firestone Tires.

In 1970, Posey was the driver for Ray Caldwell's factory-backed Autodynamics Dodge Challenger in Trans-Am, racing against Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Mark Donohue and Jim Hall in what most racing historians regard as the greatest season of professional road racing in US history.

Parnelli was initially solely concerned with USAC racing, where success came quickly ; their driver Al Unser won the Indianapolis 500 race in 1970, driving a VPJ Lola car, after leading 190 of the 200 racing laps.

Rufus Parnell " Parnelli " Jones ( born August 12, 1933 in Texarkana, Arkansas ), is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner.

Jones started Vel ’ s Parnelli Jones Racing, which won the Indianapolis 500 again as an owner in 1970 and 1971 with driver Al Unser driving the Johnny Lightning special.

Many of the most legendary drivers of the past 50 years have raced there including Ted Horn, Parnelli Jones, AJ Foyt, Bobby and Al Unser, Mario Andretti, Larry Dickson, Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon.

Foyt, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Parnelli Jones, Johnnie Parsons, and Al Unser Jr., as well as NASCAR Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart.

American Mario Andretti, after qualifying in an excellent third position, was disqualified when the engine in his Parnelli stalled on the grid and his crew push started him.

Finally, Mario took his place on the grid, but when starter Tex Hopkins dropped the green flag, the Parnelli car sat still, and the field had to scramble to avoid him.

At the start, Vittorio Brambilla's March tangled with Mario Andretti's Parnelli.

Reutemann took pole with Hunt alongside on the front row, with home hero Mario Andretti third in a Parnelli.

Mario Andretti had moved from fifteenth on the grid to ninth in the Parnelli VPJ 4B-Ford, including the fastest lap to that point, but was finished when he lost the water in his engine ( although he didn't actually stop until lap 15 when the engine had completely cooked ).

Chris Amon, Mario Andretti, Jack Brabham, John Cannon, Mark Donohue, Vic Elford, George Follmer, Masten Gregory, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, Phil Hill, Denny Hulme, Jacky Ickx, Parnelli Jones, Roger McCluskey, Bruce McLaren, Paul Newman, Jackie Oliver, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Pedro Rodríguez, Swede Savage, Jo Siffert, John Cordts, David Hobbs, Jackie Stewart and John Surtees all drove Can-Am cars at one time or another.

Andretti gave the home crowd a charge when he was fastest on Friday in the British-designed, California-built Vel's Parnelli Jones car, just two weeks after its Canadian debut.

Sound for the concert was engineered by Bill Hanley, whose innovations in the sound industry have earned him the prestigious Parnelli Award.

In 1970, Mustang won the SCCA Trans-Am series manufacturers ’ championship again, with Parnelli Jones and George Follmer driving for car owner / builder Bud Moore and crew chief Lanky Foushee.

That year he also competed in the Indianapolis 500 for the first time, and he finished in second position behind Parnelli Jones and won Rookie of the Year honours.

A 2. 65L turbocharged version of the DFV was developed privately by the Vels Parnelli Jones team for the 1976 USAC season.

* Saleen H281-Introduced for the 2007. 5 model year, a limited-production ( 100-unit )( only 68 made ) version of the Mustang sharing some bodywork features with the Parnelli Jones Limited Edition but available in different colors and equipped with a 281 CID engine configured similarly to the S281 3-Valve.

* Saleen S302 Parnelli Jones Limited Edition-A 2007 model year special edition run of 500 Mustang-based vehicles sporting styling reminiscent of the 302 Boss for which the first customer vehicle deliveries occurred on 9 November 2006

The team was formed in 1969 by former USAC racer Parnelli Jones and his business partner Velko " Vel " Miletich.

This private project was quickly adopted by Cosworth itself, and the Parnelli engine evolved into the equally legendary Cosworth DFX, an engine which would go on to win every Indianapolis 500 race and USAC / CART Championship between 1978 and 1987.

For open wheel racing, 1967's revolutionary STP-Paxton Turbocar fielded by racing and entrepreneurial legend Andy Granatelli and driven by Parnelli Jones nearly won the Indianapolis 500 ; the Pratt & Whitney ST6B-62 powered turbine car was almost a lap ahead of the second place car when a gearbox bearing failed just three laps from the finish line.

* Parnelli Smith-An auto racing champ and supplier of cars to APE, his name was a takeoff on former Indy 500 champion Parnelli Jones.

Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing, commonly referred to simply as Parnelli or VPJ, was a motor racing constructor and team from the USA.

Indianapolis 500 winners Parnelli Jones, Al Unser, Rick Mears, and Rodger Ward ; off-road champions Mickey Thompson, Ivan Stewart, Jack Flannery, Walker Evans ; international off road competitor, Rod Hall ; power boat champion Bill Muncey, movie-and television stars James Garner and Steve McQueen ; Comedian, Mort Sahl ; Astronaut, Gordon Cooper, are among the many racing and entertainment luminaries who competed in the Mint 400.

Racers who have competed at the track are a " Who's-Who " of racing history: Barney Oldfield, Ralph DePalma, Walt Faulkner, Parnelli Jones, A. J.

He was nicknamed Parnelli by his boyhood friend Billy Calder, who hoped that the Jones family would not discover their son was racing cars as a 17-year-old minor.

He is the son of racing legend Parnelli Jones, and brother of Page Jones.

Jones owned the Parnelli Formula One race team from late 1974 to early 1976, although it achieved little success.

After a brief foray into Formula One at the end of the season, Vel's Parnelli Jones mounted a full campaign in.

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The car debuted at the Speedway in 1975 in a modified Indy version of the Formula One Parnelli chassis, although it was not run regularly until late in 1976.