Team story
Origins
During the move to 3-litre Formula 1 in 1966, Hugh Aiden-Jones and Paul Emery tried to reuse an engine that had never enjoyed a proper racing career. The Shannon SH1 received the Coventry Climax FPE, known as Godiva, created for a project in the early 1950s and adapted to the new capacity.
The Formula 1 journey
Trevor Taylor qualified it 18th for the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, ahead of two competitors. A fuel-tank leak stopped the car before it completed a lap. It is the only World Championship appearance recorded: the brief episode produced no classified result and must not be described as a race driven through to the finish.
Historical timeline
Three chapters in the story of Shannon
Three episodes to revisit the people, cars and races that shaped this journey.
First appearance · British Grand Prix
Trevor Taylor · British Grand Prix 1966. The recorded outcome is DNF. This is the first recorded race start, or the first entry if the team never started a race.
Sporting landmark · Shannon
No classified race result is documented for this part of Shannon’s record. The entries and cars listed elsewhere on the page provide the available reference points; they should not be read as completed races.
Latest recorded appearance · British Grand Prix
Trevor Taylor · British Grand Prix 1966. The recorded outcome is DNF. This is the last race start attributed to this constructor in the archive, not necessarily the end of the organisation behind it.
A distinctive way of racing
The monocoque and old V8 brought together two widely separated technical generations. Godiva had been conceived to race on fuels different from the commercial petrol required in 1966; reviving it also meant dealing with that adaptation. Taylor, meanwhile, brought years of Grand Prix experience, including his time at Team Lotus alongside Jim Clark.
What remains
The SH1 subsequently had a life in Formula 3 with John Wilson, separate from its World Championship attempt. For Taylor, Brands Hatch was his last Formula 1 appearance. Shannon thus remains linked to a revived engine and a change of category, not to a series of championship seasons or a second model inferred from the conversion.