Hap Sharp

Hap Sharp

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1961 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1964 Mexican Grand Prix
Constructors
1961 and 1962 Hap Sharp 1963  Reg Parnell Racing 1964 Rob Walker Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 6th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

James "Hap" Sharp (born January 1, 1928 in Tulsa ; † May 7, 1993 ) was an American racing driver .

Career

Hap Sharp was a close friend of Jim Hall and was closely associated with his Chaparral project. Sharp drove for Hall in the USRRC sports car series and was fifth in the championship in 1964. With Roger Penske as a team partner, he was victorious in the Nassau Trophy that same year . In 1965 the championship went up, and at the end of the season Sharp was able to look forward to third place overall. The highlight of the year was overall victory in the Sebring 12 Hours with Jim Hall. In addition, there were six more victories including the renewed success in Nassau.

Sharp also tried again and again in the automobile world championship . He competed six times in the highest monoposto class. He made his debut at the US Grand Prix in 1961 , a championship point closest he came at the Grand Prix of Mexico in 1963 , following an Lotus 24 of Reg Parnell Racing headed to seventh place.

After his resignation, the American became silent. The US motorsport world was therefore in shock when it became known that he had committed suicide in 1993. The trigger for this was the previous diagnosis of cancer.

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.
1961	Hap Sharp	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1962	Hap Sharp	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1963	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1964	Rob Walker Racing Team	Brabham BT11	BRM 1.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				6th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1961
								10
1962
								11
1963
								DNF	7th
1964
									NC	13

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	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1959	Carroll Shelby Sports Cars	Maserati 250S	Jim Hall			Rank 41
1960	Hap Sharp	Cooper T49 Monaco	Jim Hall			failure	Cylinder broken
1961	Hap Sharp	Ferrari 250TR59 Fantuzzi Spyder	Ronnie Hissom			Rank 4
1962	Chaparral Cars Inc.	Chaparral 1	Ronnie Hissom	Chuck Daigh	Jim Hall	Rank 6 and class win
1963	Chaparral Cars	Chaparral 1	Jim Hall			failure	Engine failure
1964	Hap Sharp	Porsche 904 GTS	Ronnie Hissom			failure	Gearbox damage
1965	Chaparral Cars	Chaparral 2A	Jim Hall			Overall victory
1966	Chaparral Cars Inc.	Chaparral 2D	Jim Hall			failure	suspension
1968	Sunray DX Oil Company	Chevrolet Corvette	Dave Morgan			Rank 6 and class win

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	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1959	Carroll Shelby	Maserati 250S	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			41
1960	Hap Sharp	Cooper T49	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				DNF
1961	Hap Sharp	Ferrari 250TR	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			4th
1962	Chaparral	Chaparral 1	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
					6th
1963	Chaparral	Chaparral 1	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
					DNF
1964	Hap Sharp	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				DNF
1965	Chaparral	Chaparral 2A	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
				1																		1
1966	Chaparral	Chaparral 2D	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
				DNF
1967	Chaparral	Chaparral 2F	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
							DNF
1968	Sunray DX Oil Company	Chevrolet Corvette	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
				6th

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Hap Sharp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Image: Hap Sharp (left)
• Hap Sharp at Racing Sports Cars