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This article is about the former racing driver. For other people named David Hobbs, see David Hobbs (disambiguation).
David Hobbs
Born (1939-06-09) 9 June 1939 (age 84)
Formula One World Championship career
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Active years1967–1968, 1971, 1974
TeamsBRM, Honda, McLaren
Entries6
Championships0
Wins0
Podiums0
Career points0
Pole positions0
Fastest laps0
First entry1967 British Grand Prix
Last entry[1974 Italian Grand Prix]
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1962–72, 1979, 1981–85, 1987–89
TeamsTeam Lotus Engineering
Lola Cars Ltd
Standard Triumph
Maranello Concessionaires
John Wyer Automotive
Roger Penske/Kirk F. White
Equipe Matra-Simca
Grand Touring Cars/Ford France
EMKA Racing
John Fitzpatrick Racing
Joest Racing
Richard Lloyd Racing
Best finish3rd (1969, 1984)
Class wins1 (1982)

David Wishart Hobbs[1] (born 9 June 1939 in Royal Leamington Spa, England)[2] is a British former racing driver. Originally employed as a commentator for the Speed Channel, he currently works as a commentator for NBC and NBC Sports Network. In 1969 Hobbs was included in the FIA list of graded drivers, an élite group of 27 drivers who by their achievements were rated the best in the world.[3]

Hobbs currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife, Margaret, with whom he has two sons, Gregory and Guy. In 1986, Hobbs opened a car dealership, David Hobbs Honda, in Glendale, Wisconsin, which continues to exist today, and for which personally voices advertisements. His youngest son, Guy, worked for Speed as a pit reporter on their sports car coverage. Hobbs was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009.[4]

Driving career

Hobbs was born just months before the outbreak of World War II, and has a vast, 30-year history of international driving experience at all levels of motor sports, including sports cars, touring cars, Indy cars, IMSA, Can-Am and Formula One. He has participated in the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Daytona. He made twenty starts in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, finishing in 8th place at the first attempt in 1962, following with a pole position and a best finish of third (in 1969 and 1984) to his credit.

Hobbs was due to make his F1 Grand Prix debut for Tim Parnell Racing at the 1965 French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand, but a serious road accident put him in hospital for three weeks.[5]

In 1971 Hobbs won the U.S. Formula 5000 L&M Continental Series championship driving for Carl Hogan out of St. Louis, Missouri, in a McLaren M10B-Chevrolet. He won five of the eight rounds that year at Laguna Seca, Seattle, Road America (Elkhart Lake), Edmonton and Lime Rock.[6] Twelve years later, he would claim the 1983 Trans-Am Series championship as well. He also made two NASCAR Winston Cup starts in 1976, including leading two laps at the 1976 Daytona 500 [7] and drove a race in the 1979 International Race of Champions.

Television commentator

Hobbs provides commentary for Formula One and GP2 races (alongside Leigh Diffey and former Benetton mechanic Steve Matchett), the SCCA Valvoline runoffs, and parts of the 24 Hours of Daytona. He has also worked for CBS on its Daytona 500 coverage, working as both a color commentator and a feature/pit reporter from 1979 until 1995, and then moved to Speed in 1996 working as a color commentator and then moved to NBC Sports Network in 2013.[8]

Other appearances

David Hobbs appeared in the 1983 comedy film Stroker Ace, playing a TV race announcer. Hobbs appeared in the Cars 2 movie, which premiered in June 2011, as announcer "David Hobbscap", a 1963 Jaguar from Hobbs' real life hometown in England.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 WDC Pts.
1967 Bernard White Racing BRM P261 BRM P60 2.1 V8 RSA MON NED BEL FRA GBR
8 		CAN
9 		ITA USA MEX — 0
Lola Cars Lola T100 BMW M10 2.0 L4 GER
10‡
1968 Honda Racing F1 Honda RA301 Honda RA301E 3.0 V12 RSA ESP MON BEL NED FRA GBR GER ITA
Ret 		CAN USA MEX — 0
1971 Penske-White Racing McLaren M19A Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 RSA ESP MON NED FRA GBR GER AUT ITA CAN USA
10 		— 0
1974 Yardley Team McLaren McLaren M23 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 ARG BRA RSA ESP BEL MON SWE NED FRA GBR GER AUT
7 		ITA
9 		CAN USA — 0

‡ indicates an entry with an F2 car.

Complete Le Mans results

Year Position Category Race # Team Drivers Chassis Motor Laps
1962 8 GT 1.3 44 Team Lotus Engineering David Hobbs
Frank Gardner 		Lotus Elite Mk14 Coventry Climax 1.2L I4 286[9]
1963 20 Ret'd P+3.0 6 Lola Cars Ltd. Richard Attwood
David Hobbs 		Lola Mk6 GT Ford 4.6L V8 151[10]
1964 21 P 3.0 50 Standard Triumph David Hobbs
Rob Slotemaker 		Triumph Spitfire Triumph 1.1L I4 272[11]
1965 38 Ret'd. GT 1.3 52 Standard Triumph Ltd. David Hobbs
Rob Slotemaker 		Triumph Spitfire Triumph 1.1L I4 71[12]
1966 50 Ret'd. P 2.0 36 Maranello Concessionaires Mike Salmon
David Hobbs 		Ferrari Dino 206S Ferrari 2.0L V6 14[13]
1967 53 Ret'd. P+5.0 11 Lola Cars Ltd./Team Surtees John Surtees
David Hobbs 		Lola T70 Mk.III Aston Martin 5.0L V8 3[14]
1968 34 Ret'd. S 5.0 10 John Wyer Automotive Engineering Ltd. Paul Hawkins
David Hobbs 		Ford GT40 Mk.I Ford 4.9L V8 107[15]
1969 3 S 5.0 7 John Wyer Automotive Engineering David Hobbs
Mike Hailwood 		Ford GT40 Mk.I Ford 4.9L V8 368[16]
1970 41 Ret'd. S 2.0 22 John Wyer Automotive Engineering David Hobbs
Mike Hailwood 		Porsche 917K Porsche 4.5L Flat-12 49
1971 41 Ret'd. S 5.0 11 Roger Penske/Kirk F. White Mark Donohue
David Hobbs 		Ferrari 512 M/P Ferrari 5.0L V12
1972 20 Ret'd. S 3.0 16 Equipe Matra Simca Shell Jean-Pierre Jabouille
David Hobbs 		Matra Simca MS660C Matra 3.0L V12 278
1973–1978 No show.
1979 23 N/C Gr.6 +2.0 11 Grand Touring Cars Inc./
Ford Concessionaires France 		Derek Bell
David Hobbs
Vern Schuppan 		Mirage M10 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8
1980 No show.
1981 24 Ret'd. Gr.5 53 EMKA Productions Limited David Hobbs
Eddie Jordan
Steve O'Rourke 		BMW M1 Gr.5 BMW M88 3.5L I6 236
1982 4 IMSA GTX 79 John Fitzpatrick Racing John Fitzpatrick
David Hobbs 		Porsche 935/78 "Moby Dick" Porsche Type-935 2.7L Turbo Flat-6 329
1983 38 Ret'd. C 11 John Fitzpatrick Racing John Fitzpatrick
David Hobbs
Dieter Quester 		Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.6L Turbo Flat-6 135
1984 3 C1 33 Skoal Bandit Porsche Team David Hobbs
Philippe Streiff
Sarel van der Merwe 		Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.6L Turbo Flat-6 350
1985 4 C1 33 John Fitzpatrick Racing Jo Gartner
David Hobbs
Guy Edwards 		Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.6L Turbo Flat-6 365
1986 No show.
1987 47 Ret'd C1 7 Joest Racing Sarel van der Merwe
David Hobbs
Chip Robinson 		Porsche 962C Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6 4
1988 5 C1 7 Blaupunkt Joest Racing David Hobbs
Didier Theys
Franz Konrad 		Porsche 962C Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6 380
1989 26 Ret'd. C1 15 Richard Lloyd Racing Steven Andskär
David Hobbs
Damon Hill 		Porsche 962C GTi Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6 228

Indy 500 results

References

  1. ^ FIA Year Book of Automobile Sport 1975. Patrick Stephens Ltd. white p. 37. ISBN 0-85059-195-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |nopp= ignored (|no-pp= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ H. H. Pitt and M. N. Wicks, The Pitt Family of Payneham (Adelaide, 1977)
  3. ^ F.I.A. Year Book of Automobile Sport, P.S.L. Publications Limited., London, 1969.
  4. ^ "The Class of 2009". AutoWeek. 59 (17). Detroit, Michigan: Crain Communications: 62. August 24, 2009. ISSN 0192-9674.
  5. ^ http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/hobbs-the-north-american-swing/
  6. ^ Trenton Evening Times, September 7, 1971, Page 37.
  7. ^ David Hobbs 1976 Winston Cup Results – Racing-Reference.info
  8. ^ Hobbs, David (2012). "In Racing, Broadcasting: Timing is Everything". Road & Track. 64 (1): 94. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  9. ^ Motor Sport, August 1962, Pages 594–595.
  10. ^ Motor Sport, July 1963, Pages 500, 501, 504.
  11. ^ Motor Sport, July 1964, Page 536.
  12. ^ Motor Sport, July 1965, Page 565.
  13. ^ Motor Sport, July 1966, Page 596.
  14. ^ Motor Sport, July 1967, Pages 587–589.
  15. ^ Motor Sport, November 1968, Pages 1016–1017.
  16. ^ Motor Sport, July 1969, Pages 723–725.

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