Jeff Uren won the British Saloon Car Championship in its sophomore year.
25 Facts About Jeff Uren
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Jeff Uren was a driver and team manager for Ford Motor Company's rallying efforts, team manager with John Willment's racing division, and team manager for AC Cars' 1964 Le Mans team.
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Jeff Uren later created a series of performance-oriented engine-swapped custom Ford models.
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Jeff Uren was raised in Cornwall, and was of Cornish descent.
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Jeff Uren appeared several more times in the Monte Carlo Rally.
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Jeff Uren partnered with Douglas for appearances in 1956 and 1958.
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Jeff Uren was teamed with Ian Walker in 1959, and with Tommy Wisdom in 1962.
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Jeff Uren made an appearance in the RAC Rally the same year, driving with Wisdom again in a Cortina 1200 registered as TOO 528, the first appearance of the model in a rally.
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Also in 1962, at the request of Triumph's public relations department, Jeff Uren partnered with Wisdom as a fourth Triumph team in the Coupe des Alpes in Triumph TR4 6VC, a car normally kept as a spare.
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Jeff Uren appeared in other rallys, including the 1957 Tulip Rally partnered with Douglas in a Jaguar 2.4.
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Jeff Uren made two appearances in the East Africa Safari Rally: in 1960 driving with Mike Armstrong the team finished second in class, while in the 1961 event he and Armstrong finished third in class.
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Jeff Uren finished fifth in class at the 1960 Rally to the Midnight Sun in Sweden.
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In 1955 both Jeff Uren brothers became active in saloon car racing.
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Jeff Uren drove a 3.4 Mk1, as did his brother Douglas.
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Jeff Uren drove a Ford Zephyr MkII in the inaugural season of the British Saloon Car Championship in 1958, finishing sixth on points and achieving the first win in a Ford at Mallory Park.
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Jeff Uren raced competitively in saloon and GT events until 1964.
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Jeff Uren held class lap records at Aintree, Goodwood, Brands Hatch, and Snetterton in his Zephyr.
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Jeff Uren continued racing in various historic race events until 2000.
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In 1959 Jeff Uren was appointed Competition Manager for Ford of Britain's Dagenham Rally Team, originally on a consulting contract basis with a one year term.
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Jeff Uren negotiated an arrangement with Ford for Willment to receive three Lotus Cortinas as well as one 1963 American Ford Galaxie 500.
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Jeff Uren hired Jack Sears to drive the Galaxie, which ended Jaguar's dominance of the BSCC series.
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In 1967 Jeff Uren established his own tuning company, called Race Proved Performance and Racing Equipment Ltd.
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Jeff Uren's companies developed the following vehicles, with the indicated engine upgrades:.
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Jeff Uren's companies are believed to have built a total of 1,700 vehicles, the majority of which, at between 1,000 and 1,100 examples, were Cortina Savages.
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Jeff Uren was married to Penelope Vaughan Macandrew-Jeff Uren at the time of his death in 2007.