Robert Kauffman

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The Ferrari 458 Italia GTC driven by Robert Kauffman, Rui Águas and Marco Cioci at the 6-hour race in Shanghai in 2012

Robert "Rob" Kauffman (born June 6, 1964 in Sharon ) is an American entrepreneur and racing driver .

Entrepreneur

Robert Kauffman co-founded the Fortress Investment Group in 1998 , a private asset management company . In 2007, the company became the first hedge fund to trade on the New York Stock Exchange . In 2017, the investment company was sold to Japanese Softbank for $ 3.3 billion .

Robert Kauffman was and is a co-owner of US motorsport teams. He was 50 -% - owner of Michael Waltrip Racing and has been holding 2015 shares of the racing team of Chip Ganassi .

Racing career

Robert Kauffman was also active as a racing driver for a number of years. Between 2007 and 2013 he contested 26 GT races . He achieved three class wins. He competed in the FIA GT3 European Championship , the European Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Sports Car Series . Twice, in 2011 and 2012 , he competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race. The best place in the final classification was 31st place in 2012. In 2011 he was involved in Mike Rockenfeller's accident in the Audi R18 . In the night at 11 p.m. Rockenfeller collided in the Audi with the Ferrari 458 Italia GTC from Kauffman and had a serious accident. Although the LMP1-Audi was completely destroyed, Rockenfeller was unharmed.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2011 ItalyItaly AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GTC PortugalPortugal Rui Águas United StatesUnited States Michael Waltrip failure malfunction
2012 ItalyItaly AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GTC PortugalPortugal Rui Águas United StatesUnited States Brian Vickers Rank 31st

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2012 United StatesUnited States AF Corse whale trip Ferrari 458 Italia PortugalPortugal Rui Águas United StatesUnited States Michael Waltrip Rank 38

Web links

Commons : Robert Kauffman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the sale of the Fortress Investment Group
  2. ↑ Robert Kauffman changes from Michael Waltrip to Chip Ganassi Racing
personal data
SURNAME Kauffman, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kauffman, Rob (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Sharon