Bob Bondurant
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1965 USA Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1966 USA Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Constructors | |||||||||
| 1965 North American Racing Team - Reg Parnell Racing 1966 Team Chamaco Collect - All American Racers | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | WM-14. ( 1966 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 3 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | - | ||||||||
Robert "Bob" Bondurant (born April 27, 1933 in Evanston ) is a former American automobile racing driver .
Career
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Bob Bondurant began his motorsport career as a teenager . He competed in dirt track motorcycle races in the early 1950s and switched to automobile racing in 1956 . A used Morgan was his first racing car. His breakthrough came in 1963. After winning the West Coast Production Car Championship in 1963 in a Chevrolet Corvette , Carroll Shelby noticed him. Shelby, always on the lookout for talented young people, gave him a work contract.
Bondurant competed four times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . When he first participated in 1964 , he achieved his best result. Together with Dan Gurney on an AC Cobra , he finished fourth in the overall standings and won the large GT class up to 5000 cubic centimeters. In 1965 he was again part of the Shelby driver team and had a share in winning the World Sports Car Championship . In Le Mans , however, he started for Rob Walker . The Ford GT 40 , which he shared with Umberto Maglioli , retired after 29 laps with engine failure.
In the same year he also made his first appearance in Formula 1. Luigi Chinetti gave him a Ferrari cockpit and Bondurant made his debut as a replacement for John Surtees at the US Grand Prix , which he finished in ninth place.
A successful Formula 1 career seemed possible when he achieved his first world championship points with fourth place at the Monaco Grand Prix . His driving style predestined him more for the long sports car races than for the short grands prix. He was known as a reliable pilot who handled the material carefully and was able to maintain his pace over long distances. What he lacked was the basic speed that distinguishes Grand Prix drivers. His Formula 1 career ended in 1966 after just nine races.
He continued to successfully drive sports car races and switched to the CanAm series in 1967 . A serious accident ended the season prematurely for him. Bondurant withdrew from active racing and founded a racing school.
In 1971 he made a comeback as a racing driver, drove CanAm races again and took part in five NASCAR events. Always involved in Riverside , his best place in the most popular US racing series was 18th overall.
It was at this late stage in his career that he achieved the best placement in the 12-hour race at Sebring , which he finished third overall with Gary Belcher and Bob Garretson in 1979 .
In 2003 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of US Motorsports.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .
general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1965 | North American Racing Team | Ferrari 158 | Ferrari 1.5 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Reg Parnell Racing | Lotus 33 | Ferrari 1.5 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1966 | Team Chamaco Collect | BRM P261 | BRM 2.0 V8 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 14th |
| Anglo American Racers | Eagle T1G | Climax 2.8 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Weslake 3.0 V12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| total | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | ||||
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 |
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| Legend | ||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1964 |
Shelby American Inc.
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AC Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe |
Dan Gurney
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4th place and class win | |
| 1965 |
RRC Walker Racing Team
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Ford GT40 |
Umberto Maglioli
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failure | overheated cylinder |
| 1966 |
North American Racing Team
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Ferrari 365P2 White Elephant |
Masts Gregory
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failure | Power transmission |
| 1967 |
Dana Chevrolet Inc.
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Chevrolet Corvette |
Dick Guldstrand
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failure | Engine failure |
Sebring results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1964 |
Shelby American Corp.
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Shelby Cobra Roadster |
Lew Spencer
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Rank 5 | ||
| 1965 |
Shelby-American Inc.
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Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe |
Jo Schlesser
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4th place and class win | ||
| 1966 |
Ferrari SEFAC Spa
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Ferrari 330P3 |
Mike Parkes
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failure | Gearbox damage | |
| 1977 |
Ramsey Ferrari of SF
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Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 |
Milt Minter
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Dick Smothers
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failure | accident |
| 1979 |
Dick Barbour Racing
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Porsche 935 |
Gary Belcher
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Bob Garretson
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Rank 3 |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who, 3rd Edition . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8
Web links
- Image: Bob Bondurant in the 1960s
- Image: Bon Bondurant today
- Image: Bob Bondurant (right) with Fred Gamble, John Wyer, Innes Ireland, Phil Remington and Phil Hill
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bondurant, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bondurant, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Evanston |