Bob Gerard

Bob Gerard

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1950
Last start:	1957 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1950-1951  ERA 1953-1957  Cooper
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 8th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Frederick Robert "Bob" Gerard (born January 19, 1914 in Leicester ; † January 26, 1990 there ) was a British automobile racing driver .

Career

Gerard started his racing career in 1933. With a Riley he competed in mountain and circuit races. After the Second World War he took part in races with ERA cars and remained associated with this brand for a number of years, even when there were better vehicles. In 1947 Gerard won the Ulster Trophy in Northern Ireland and the British Empire Trophy on the Isle of Man . He finished third in the 1948 British Grand Prix and second in the same race in 1949 .

Gerard competed sporadically in races in the Formula 1 World Championship. First he drove ERA cars, then Cooper models, with which he started until 1957. He finished sixth three times, for which there were no world championship points at the time. Gerard also competed in sports car races .

After retiring from active racing, he remained connected to motorsport as a racing team owner until the 1980s.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Bob Gerard	ERA B-Type	ERA 1.5 L6s	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
		ERA A-Type		1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1951	Bob Gerard	ERA B-Type	ERA 1.5 L6s	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1953	Bob Gerard	Cooper T23	Bristol 2.0 L6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1954	Bob Gerard	Cooper T23	Bristol 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1956	Bob Gerard	Cooper T23	Bristol 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1957	Bob Gerard	Cooper T43	Bristol 2.2 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				8th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1950
	6th	6th
1951
					11
1953
					11	DNF
1954
					10
1956
						11
1957
					6th

Legend
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	WD	withdrawn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
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1953	Automobiles Frazer Nash Ltd.	Frazer Nash Mk.II LM Coupe	David Clarke	failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Frazer Nash	Frazer Nash Le Mans	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF			8th

Web links

• Bob Gerard at Racing Sports Cars