John Hine (racing driver)
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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
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Marcos GT Gullwing |
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1970 |
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Chevron B16 |
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failure | Valve defect | ||
1972 |
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Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 |
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failure | Piston damage | ||
1977 |
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Chevron B31 |
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failure | fuel pump |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
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1962 | Marcos Cars | Marcos GT Gullwing |
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1966 | Chris Barber | Lotus Elan |
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1967 | Chris Barber |
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1968 | Medco Racing Chris Barber |
Porsche 906 Lotus 47 |
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1969 | Chevron Cars | Chevron B8 |
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1970 | Chevron Cars | Chevron B16 |
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1972 |
Chevron Cars Red Rose Racing Maranello |
Chevron B19 Chevron B21 Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 |
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1973 | Ember Racing | Chevron B19 / 21 Chevron B23 |
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1974 | Pete Smith KVG Racing |
Chevron B23 Chevron B26 |
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DNF | 8th | DNF | DNF | 9 | DNF | ||||||||||||
1975 | KVG Racing | Chevron B31 |
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5 | 3 | 14th | 9 | 26th | DNF |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John Hine Limited
- ^ Dunes Trophy Zandvoort 1971
- ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 , p. 226.
- ↑ On the death of John Hine (English)
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SURNAME | Hine, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wandworth |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 2020 |