John Hine (racing driver)

John Hine (front) in the Chevron B19 1971 in Zandvoort

John Edwin Louin Hine (born April 7, 1933 in Wandworth ; † January 17, 2020 ) was a British racing car driver .

Racing career

John Hine had a long career in international sports car racing . After starting out in British club sport, he competed for the first time in the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1962 . As a works driver at Marcos , he drove a Marcos GT Gullwing together with Richard Prior , which failed after 85 laps due to an engine failure. The connection to Marcos came about through his entrepreneurial activity. 1957 opened a car workshop with his wife Francis Anne (* 1941) in Atherton , where he sold used sports cars as well as Marcos vehicles . The company's proceeds were used to finance his racing activities, which were often handled by his own small racing team under the name Red Rose Racing . After financial difficulties, Hine dissolved the company in the 1990s.

John Hine was a very busy driver in the 1960s. He drove in British GT and sports car series and repeatedly competed in the sports car world championship . In the early 1970s he achieved international success. In a Chevron B19 he won the Dunes Trophy Zandvoort in 1971 and was third overall in the 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps in 1972 . He achieved another third place in a world championship run at the 800 km race in Dijon in 1975 .

His best result in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring , for which he competed eight times, was in 1972 together with John Bridges in fifth place in the overall classification and winning the sports car class up to 2 liters. The duo started with the Chevron B21 from Red Rose Racing in 7th place.

In the last few years of his life he suffered from vascular dementia . He died in January 2020 after a brief serious illness.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1962	Marcos Cars	Marcos GT Gullwing	Richard Prior			failure	Engine failure
1970	Paul Watson Racing Organization	Chevron B16	Ian Skailes			failure	Valve defect
1972	Maranello Concessionaires	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	Peter Westbury			failure	Piston damage
1977	Chandler Ibec International	Chevron B31	Tony Charnell	Robin Smith	Ian Bracey	failure	fuel pump

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
1962	Marcos Cars	Marcos GT Gullwing	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
										DNF
1966	Chris Barber	Lotus Elan	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
								DNF
1967	Chris Barber	Lotus 47 Lotus Elan	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
								DNF				DNF		DNF		DNF
1968	Medco Racing Chris Barber	Porsche 906 Lotus 47	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					DNF			DNF	DNF	DNF
1969	Chevron Cars	Chevron B8	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					7th				DNF
1970	Chevron Cars	Chevron B16	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					DNF					DNF
1972	Chevron Cars Red Rose Racing Maranello	Chevron B19 Chevron B21 Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			7th					3		5	DNF
1973	Ember Racing	Chevron B19 / 21 Chevron B23	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
				DNF			15th		DNF
1974	Pete Smith KVG Racing	Chevron B23 Chevron B26	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
				DNF	8th			DNF			DNF	9	DNF
1975	KVG Racing	Chevron B31	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
				5	3		14th	9	26th	DNF

Web links

Commons : John Hine  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• John Hine at Racing Sports Cars
• John Hine at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Hine Limited
2. ^ Dunes Trophy Zandvoort 1971
3. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 , p. 226.
4. ↑ On the death of John Hine (English)