#HarrisonRacingTeam

The Harrison Racing Team was the private motorsport outfit created and financed by Tennessee industrialist J. Frank Harrison Jr., heir to the Coca-Cola bottling fortune. Active from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, it became one of the most ambitious and well-funded private American teams of its era. Harrison fielded a wide range of machinery—from Frazer Nash and Jaguar sports cars to Maserati 450S, Birdcage Tipo 61s, Lotus 18 and 19, and later his own “Harrison Special” Indy-type cars—supporting drivers such as Lloyd Ruby, Jim Hall, Jim Jeffords, Sierra “Smokey” Drolet and others. Operating with professional mechanics including Bill Warren, Bert Kemp and later Jerry Eisert, the team competed in SCCA, USAC Championship road races, Nassau Speed Week and the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Although widely known among competitors and journalists, the team never had an official name and was informally referred to simply as “Harrison’s team” or through the cars it entered. Despite its discreet identity, the Harrison Racing Team played a notable role in early American professional road racing, contributing both to driver careers and to the development of innovative race machinery.

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