Bob Said

Boris Robert Said junior

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1959 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1959 USA Grand Prix
Constructors
1959  Connaught Engineering - Paul Emery
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Boris Robert "Bob" Said junior (born May 5, 1932 in New York City , † March 24, 2002 in Los Angeles ) was an American automobile racing and bobsleigh driver .

Career

Bob Said, the son of Syrian-Russian immigrants, was the first American to win a car race in Europe after World War II . Said, who had already achieved some success in sports car races in the USA, won the 1953 circuit race in Rouen on an OSCA . In 1954 he became a works driver at Ferrari . The Scuderia only used it at sports car events. He finished second at the Bari Grand Prix and the Trullo d'Oro.

After two years of absence, which he spent speculating on the stock market, he returned to the racetracks in 1957 and won his class at the Nassau race. Again he drove a Ferrari sports car. In 1959, he contested for Connaught to the US Grand Prix in Sebring . Said drove the C Type and was eliminated after a spin on the first lap. Said drove car races until the end of 1962, but the events in which he participated became smaller and smaller. In 1963 he borrowed $ 2,600 to speculate again. In two years he had made over a million dollars and was a made man.

In his spare time, Said looked for a new job. He became a bobsledder and took part in the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics. In 1968 he finished 10th in the four-man bobsleigh, in 1972 in 14th place in the four-man and 19th in the two-man bobsleigh.

In the 1990s, Said Jr. began producing several independent films. His son Boris Said III followed in his father's footsteps and is a well-known NASCAR pilot in the USA .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1959	Connaught Cars-Paul Emery	Connaught Type C	Alta 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1959
									DNF

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

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1953	Wojciech Kloaczkowski	Frazer Nash Mille Miglia	Philip Smyth		Rank 14
1954	George Moffett	OSCA MT4 1450	George Moffett		Rank 25
1955	Ecurie Yankee	Ferrari 750 Monza	Masts Gregory		failure	accident
1958	Scuderia Central America	Ferrari 500TRC	Miguel Rivera		failure	Brakes
1966	Tom Payne	Shelby Cobra	Ray Cuomo	John Addison	Rank 15

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
1953	Wojciech Kloaczkowski	Frazer Nash Mille Miglia	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
			14th
1954	Jack Frierson George Moffett Bob Said	Osca MT4 Ferrari 500 Mondial	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
			DNF	25th			9
1955	Ecurie Yankee	Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
				DNF
1958	Scuderia Central America	Ferrari 500TRC	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				DNF
1966	Tom Payne	Shelby Cobra	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
				15th

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Bob Said  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bob Said in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Bob Said in the Internet Movie Database (English)