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Offenhauser

  • Engine manufacturer
  • 1950–1960
  • 33 teams

Counted per race, not per car: an engine that powered four cars in one race was in one race. A win means that a car with this engine won – it was not necessarily a works team.

Season by season

2 1950: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1951: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1952: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1953: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1954: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1955: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1956: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1957: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1958: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1959: 2 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1960: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1950195219541956195819602 1950: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1951: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1952: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1953: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1954: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1955: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1956: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1957: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1958: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1959: 2 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 1960: 1 starts, 1 podiums, 1 wins 19501953195619591960
WinsOther podiumsOther startsTitleBar height is the number of starts in that season.
Show the figures as a table
Offenhauser, season by season
SeasonStartsWinsPodiumsChampionship
1950111–
1951111–
1952111–
1953111–
1954111–
1955111–
1956111–
1957111–
1958111–
1959211–
1960111–

Teams that used it

33 teams. A customer engine makes its supplier part of several teams' histories at once. The 25 most successful are listed.

TeamPeriodRacesWins
Kurtis Kraft1950–1960125
Watson1950–196093
Epperly1955–196052
Kuzma1951–1960101
Lesovsky1950–19609
Phillips1954–19607
Stevens1950–19566
Bromme1951–19544
Schroeder1951–19554
Trevis1951–19604
Deidt1950–19523
Dunn1957–19593
Moore1950–19593
Pawl1951–19553
Christensen1959–19602
Ewing1950–19602
Marchese1950–19512
Maserati1950–19512
Nichels1950–19542
Pankratz1954–19552
Sherman1951–19522
Adams19501
Del Roy19531
Elder19591
Hall19511

The engines

Every specification that raced, with the teams that used it.

EngineYearsCapacityLayoutTeams
Offenhauser 3.0 L4 S1950–19583 lL4, superchargedMaserati, Kurtis Kraft, Stevens, Rae, Lesovsky
Offenhauser 4.5 L41950–19604.5 lL4, naturally aspiratedKurtis Kraft, Marchese, Deidt, Lesovsky, Moore, Watson, Snowberger, Maserati, Olson, Ewing, Nichels, Wetteroth, Adams, Langley, Schroeder, Trevis, Bromme, Sherman, Kuzma, Hall, Pawl, Stevens, Del Roy, Turner, Phillips, Pankratz, Epperly, Dunn, Christensen, Sutton, Elder, Meskowski
Offenhauser 1.7 L419591.7 lL4, naturally aspiratedKurtis Kraft

Drivers who won with it