Peter Revson tribute poster

I have a lot of admiration for 70s Formula 1, especially some lesser known drivers and teams which still had some success during their career, and since the UOP Shadow of the early 70s is my favorite defunct team, I wanted to make a tribute for one of its drivers, which was taken away from us too soon, the american star Peter Revson.

Revson was an amazing talent in the early 70s, and in 1973 he achieved the only 2 wins of his F1 career (Which is the reason why I included the two white stars in this illustration, which also are an obvious reference to the US flag), the first of which came at the 1973 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

In 1974 Revson made the switch from McLaren to Shadow, the american team had impressed everyone in their first F1 season in 1973, however, Peter's season lasted only 2 races, he was killed in a testing session before the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, after a very bad crash in which he actually managed to survive the initial impact.