John Hine (racing driver)
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 |
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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 |
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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
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)
personal data | |
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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 |