Hector Rebaque

Hector Rebaque

Nation:	Mexico
Automobile / Formula 1 world championship
First start:	Grand Prix of Germany 1977
Last start:	1981 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Constructors
1977  Hesketh  1978-1979  Rebaque  1980-1981  Brabham
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup tenth ( 1981 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 41 - - -
World Cup points :	13
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Héctor Rebaque (born February 5, 1956 in Mexico City ) is a retired Mexican automobile racing driver .

The beginning of the career

The Mexican , who came from a wealthy family, came to Europe in 1974 to pursue his motorsport career. After an initial engagement in Formula Atlantic , Rebaque switched to Formula 2 in 1976 . Fourth place in the second race of the season was not followed by any further successes, so Rebaque returned to Formula Atlantic in 1977.

Rebaque in Formula 1

From the Belgian Grand Prix in 1977 to Rebaque bought as a pilot in the financially troubled Hesketh - Formula 1 team one. At the wheel of a Hesketh 308E Ford Cosworth, however, he only managed to qualify for a race once, at the German Grand Prix . He retired on the twentieth lap of this race with a battery failure.

In 1978 Rebaque bought a Lotus 78 -Ford-Cosworth from Colin Chapman , which he used on his own. Since the team lacked the technical expertise and experience to successfully use a Formula 1 car, the successes remained modest. Rebaque was only able to achieve a World Championship point with a sixth place at the German Grand Prix .

In 1979 Rebaque bought a Lotus 79 Ford Cosworth, the direct successor to his previous year's car, with which Mario Andretti became world champion in 1978. At the same time, Rebaque ordered its own car, the Rebaque-HR-100, from Penske's UK branch . A Ford Cosworth V8 should serve as the engine. However, this car, developed under the direction of John Barnard , was only used in the last three races of the 1979 season and so could not achieve racing maturity. Rebaque was unsuccessful with both cars and only achieved seventh place in Holland as the best place . At the end of the year he withdrew his unsuccessful Formula 1 team.

In the 1980 season, initially without engagement, Rebaque replaced the Argentine Ricardo Zunino, who had fallen out of favor at Brabham because of poor performance, from the Grand Prix of Great Britain . Brabham's team boss Bernie Ecclestone was able to fulfill his sponsor's wish for two Latin American pilots and at the same time - through a personal dowry from Rebaque - strengthen Brabham's financial base. Rebaque only scored one point (in Canada ) because his efforts were hampered, among other things, by the then new Weissmann transmission , which was very prone to defects.

Rebaque also played the 1981 season , alongside Nelson Piquet , for Brabham. It turned out, however, that Piquet was the significantly faster pilot; Rebaque only scored eleven points. The highlight for Rebaque was the Argentine Grand Prix , in which he drove in the superior Brabham BT49C Ford Cosworth with the new "trick suspension" developed by Gordon Murray in second place before retiring with an engine failure. At the end of the season, Rebaque's contract with Brabham was not renewed and his cockpit was given to the Italian Riccardo Patrese .

Rebaque in the Cart series

After the end of his Formula 1 career, Hector Rebaque switched to the Champ Car series in the 1982 season . For the Forsythe team, he drove a March -82- Cosworth . In addition to average training and race placements, Rebaque managed, completely surprisingly, to win the race in Elkhart Lake . He benefited from a failure of Al Unsers , who ran out of fuel a few corners before the finish.

At the end of the season, under the impression of a serious accident in training for the 500-mile race in Michigan , Rebaque retired from motorsport and continued to work in his father's company.

this and that

The 1979 Monaco Grand Prix was boycotted by Héctor Rebaque and his team. Because of the cramped conditions in Monaco, the FISA had decided before the start of the 1979 season that there would be a pre-qualification. All teams that did not score points in the 1978 season should take part.

One month before the race, the regulation was changed so that all teams that had failed to score points in 1979 had to pre-qualify and, in addition, the members of the FOCA , of which Rebaque was not a member, were automatically seeded.

Rebaque protested against this regulation and handed a protest letter to the chairman of the FISA, Jean-Marie Balestre . When this remained unanswered, Rebaque decided to boycott in order to draw attention to the grievance.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile / Formula 1 world championship

These statistics include all participations of the driver in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.

general overview

season	team	automobile	run	Non-qualifications	Starts	Points	position
1977	Hesketh Racing	Hesketh 308E Ford Cosworth	6th	5	1	-	-
1978	Team Rebaque	Lotus 78 Ford Cosworth	16	7th	9	1	21st
1979	Team Rebaque	Lotus 79 Ford Cosworth	11	2	9	-	-
1979	Team Rebaque	Rebaque HR100 Ford Cosworth	3	2	1	-	-
Overall result 1979			14th	4th	10	-	-
1980	Brabham	Brabham BT 49 Ford Cosworth	7th	-	7th	1	21st
1981	Brabham	Brabham BT 49C Ford Cosworth	15th	1	14th	11	10.
total			57	16	41	13	-

Statistics in the cart series

season	team	automobile	run	Starts	Victories	Points	position
1982	Forsythe Racing	March 82 Ford Cosworth	7th	6th	1	48	15th
total			7th	6th	1	48	-

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1974	Rebaque-Rojas Racing Team	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Guillermo Rojas	failure	Ignition damage

Web links

Commons : Héctor Rebaque  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography with pictures on Forix.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grand Prix International, German edition "Monaco" 1980, page 6, SNEP / Saarbach Verlag