Doc Bundy

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Harold "Doc" Bundy (born January 25, 1949 in Scio ) is a former American automobile racing driver .

Career

Doc Bundy's sports car racing career was long; He was active as a driver for more than three decades. In the 1970s and 1980s in particular, he was a well-known pilot in Europe. When, after thirteen years of absence in 1997 to 24-hour race at Le Mans returned had, however, already almost forgotten it there. Overall, Bundy played 177 races between 1975 and 2002, of which he was able to win 14. There were also six class wins.

He came into contact with motorsport in 1973 when he was polishing the rims of the racing tires of Peter Gregg's Porsche racing car . Over the years, he rose to become a race engineer, a position he still held in Al Holbert's team in 1980 . In addition, he drove sporadically races as an amateur from the mid-1970s. In 1975 he made his debut at the Sebring 12-hour race and was only active as a driver from 1981. He celebrated his first victory in 1982 in a Trans-Am race at Sears Point . In the 1980s he competed for Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguar team and for Hendrick Motorsports in the IMSA GTP series and won the 500 km race at Road Atlanta in 1986 . His last overall victory was in 1997 as a works driver for Panoz with partner Andy Wallace again in Sears Point, where he crossed the finish line first in the IMSA GT race. After the Sebring 12-hour race in 2002 , Bundy resigned as a professional racing driver and then worked as a press spokesman for Panoz and the US agencies of Lotus Cars and Porsche.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1982 United StatesUnited States Goodrich Corporation Porsche 924 Carrera GTR United StatesUnited States Jim Busby FranceFrance Marcel Mignot 16th place and class win
1984 United StatesUnited States Jaguar Group 44 Jaguar XJR-5 United StatesUnited States Bob Tullius United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brian Redman failure Gearbox damage
1997 United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Price Racing Panoz Esperante GTR-1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Perry McCarthy AustraliaAustralia David Brabham failure Wagon fire

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1975 United StatesUnited States Holbert's Porsche-Audi Porsche 914 United StatesUnited States Bill Schmid Rank 23
1978 United StatesUnited States Belcher Racing Porsche 934/5 United StatesUnited States Gary Belcher failure mechanics
1982 United StatesUnited States Brumos Racing Porsche 924 Carrera United StatesUnited States Jim Busby United StatesUnited States James Brolin Rank 21
1983 United StatesUnited States Pepe Romero March 83G United StatesUnited States Pepe Romero United StatesUnited States Bill Whittington failure Gearbox damage
1984 United StatesUnited States Group 44 Jaguar XJR-5 United StatesUnited States Bob Tullius failure Ignition damage
1988 United StatesUnited States HP Racing March 86G United StatesUnited States Bill Cooper United StatesUnited States Whitney Quite failure Gasoline system
1994 United StatesUnited States Lotus USA Lotus Esprit X180R United StatesUnited States David Murry Rank 23
1997 United StatesUnited States Panoz Motorsport Panoz Esperante GTR-1 FranceFrance Eric Bernard United StatesUnited States Jeff Purner failure Electrics
1998 United StatesUnited States Panoz Motorsport Panoz Esperante GTR-1 FranceFrance Eric Bernard United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jamie Davies Rank 4
1999 United StatesUnited States Dollahite Racing Ferrari 333SP United StatesUnited States Mike Davies United StatesUnited States Bill Dollahite failure Oil pump
2002 United StatesUnited States Kyser Racing Lola B2K / 40 CanadaCanada Kye Wankum United StatesUnited States Joe Foster failure accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th
1978 Belcher Racing Porsche 934 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG United StatesUnited States VALLEY FranceFrance DIJ United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MIS United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT ItalyItaly VAL United StatesUnited States ROD
6th DNF
1981 Holbert Racing Porsche 924 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly MON United StatesUnited States RIV United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT BelgiumBelgium SPA CanadaCanada MOS United StatesUnited States ROA United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH
40
1982 Goodrich Corporation Porsche 924 ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly MUG JapanJapan FUJ United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH
16
1984 Jaguar Group 44 Jaguar XJR-5 ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL FranceFrance LEM GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH CanadaCanada MOS BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly IMO JapanJapan FUJ South AfricaSouth Africa KYA AustraliaAustralia SAN
DNF

literature

  • Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .
  • Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
  • JA Martin and Ken Welles: Prototypes - the History of the IMSA GTP Series . Bull Publishing, Phoenix 2000, ISBN 1-893618-01-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trans-Am Sears Point 1982
  2. Jump up ↑ 1986 500km Road Atlanta race