Elliott Forbes-Robinson

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox NASCAR driver Elliott Forbes-Robinson (born October 31, 1943, in La Crescenta, California) is a road racing race car driver.[1] He is known for his race wins and championships in many different series, including the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), Super Vee, Trans-Am Series, CanAm, IMSA GTU, and the World Challenge.[2] He is known in NASCAR circles as a road course ringer. He is also a founder of the Legends Cars of 600 Racing and he designed their original car.[3]

Racing career

SCCA

1970 ARRC National Championships C production. Porsche 914-6 fourth in C production

1972 VW Gold Cup Super Vee 4th place overall in points. 2 Wins Riverside and Portland International Raceway

1972 SCCA ARRC National Championships E Production. Porsche 914. Results Pole position, Track record, Overall win by over 30 seconds. DQ'd in post-race inspection.

1974 VW Gold Cup Super Vee championship. Seven victories and four finishes in fifth or better out of the 13 races he entered.

He was the 1982 champion of the Trans-Am Series.

Forbes-Robinson co-won the 1987 Grand Prix of Miami with Geoff Brabham.[4] In 1988, he took over the driver's seat from car owner Rick Hendrick during the final NASCAR race at Riverside International Raceway.[5]

In the mid-1990s he competed in SCCA, IMSA’s GTU, the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, and the World Sportscar Championship.

In 1991 he drives with Robby and Johnny Unser the 24 Hours of Nürburgring for Porsche [911 Cup/ with Herbert Linge + Dr. K.R.Schuster].

In 1997 he won the overall win at the 24 Hours of Daytona.

In 1999 he repeated as the overall winner at the 24 Hours of Daytona. He won the inaugural ALMS championship with teammate Butch Leitzinger for Dyson Racing.

He won the SR Class at the 2000 24 Hours of Daytona, and finished fifth in the class’ points standings.

He finished seventh the 2001 SRP class points, with a second-place finish in eight starts.

He had three SRP starts in 2002. He finished third in his only SRP II start.

He was the 2003 Rolex Vintage Enduro Car champion.

He raced in The Rolex Series in 2004, and had eight Top-5 finishes in eleven races. He co-drove with Leitzinger. He raced in the No. 4 Pontiac-Crawford Daytona Prototype car for Howard-Boss Motorsports.[6]

He continued his relationship with Boss Motorsports co-driving with Leitzinger in 2005. The duo won at Mid-Ohio, and had second-place finishes at the 24 Hours of Daytona, Homestead, and Laguna Seca in seven races. They finished fifth in the final series points.

Road racing career totals

He has had 51 major victories in his 30-year career.[7] His victory co-driving with Butch Leitzinger at the 2004 Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park gave him victories in 5 consecutive decades.[6]

Awards

He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America[8] in 2006.

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year Track Car Engine Class Finish Start Status
1969 Daytona International Raceway Porsche 911 Porsche B Sedan 3 10 Running
1970 Road Atlanta Porsche 914/6 Porsche C Production 4 7 Running
1972 Road Atlanta Porsche 914 Porsche E Production 21 1 Disqualified
1973 Road Atlanta Porsche 914 Porsche E Production 19 3 Retired
1976 Road Atlanta Nissan 280Z Nissan C Production 1 1 Running
Nissan 610 Nissan B Sedan 1 1 Running
1978 Road Atlanta Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet A Production 1 1 Running

Formula Super Vee

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points
1974 Lynn Racing Lola VW Brabham ROL1
2 		LRP
1 		LS
1 		ONT
3 		MOH
 ROL2
1 		WG1
5 		CRT
1 		ROA
27 		LRP
 MOS
1 		WG2
1 		MEX
1 		DAY
4 		1st 185
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NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Winston Cup Series

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />NWCCScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Pts Ref
1976 Howard & Egerton Racing 6 Chevy RSD DAY
DNQScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CAR RCH BRI ATL NWS DAR MAR TAL NSV DOV CLT RSD MCH DAY NSV POC TAL MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR ATL ONT NA - [12]
1977 Harris Racing 87 Dodge RSD DAY
40Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RCH 69th 201 [13]
Midgley Racing 29 Dodge CAR
20Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ATL
36Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NWS DAR BRI MAR TAL NSV DOV CLT RSD MCH DAY NSV POC TAL MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR ATL ONT
1981 Howard & Egerton Racing 86 Buick RSD
8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		DAY
25Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RCH CAR
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ATL
39Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		TAL
16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NSV DOV CLT
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		TWS RSD
35Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MCH DAY
23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NSV POC TAL
12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MCH 35th 1020 [14]
Olds BRI
27Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NWS DAR MAR
Ulrich Racing 40 Buick BRI
23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR ATL RSD
1982 Cronkrite Racing 96 Buick DAY
28Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RCH BRI ATL
40Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CAR DAR NWS MAR TAL
29Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NSV DOV CLT POC RSD MCH DAY NSV POC TAL MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV NWS CLT MAR CAR ATL RSD 68th 155 [15]
1983 Bahre Racing 23 Buick DAY
40Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RCH CAR ATL DAR NWS MAR TAL NSV DOV BRI CLT RSD POC MCH DAY NSV POC TAL MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR ATL RSD 101st 43 [16]
1984 Olds DAY
DNQScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RCH CAR ATL BRI NWS DAR MAR 45th 349 [17]
Harrington Racing 2 Buick TAL
39Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NSV DOV CLT RSD POC MCH
24Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		DAY NSV POC CLT
20Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NWS CAR ATL
19Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RSD
Chevy TAL
38Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR
Daytona 500
Year Team Manufacturer Start Finish
1976 Howard & Egerton Racing Chevrolet DNQ
1977 Harris Racing Dodge 16 40
1981 Howard & Egerton Racing Buick 37 25
1982 Cronkrite Racing Buick 18 28
1983 Bahre Racing Buick 19 40
1984 Oldsmobile DNQ

24 Hours of Le Mans results

24 Hours of Le Mans results
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1971 Template:Flagicon Richie Ginther Racing Template:Flagicon Alan Johnson Porsche 911S GT
+2.0 		50 DNF DNF
1989 Template:Flagicon Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Template:Flagicon Takashi Yorino
Template:Flagicon Hervé Regout 		Mazda 767B GTP 365 9th 2nd
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See also

References

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External links

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Champion
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  1. ↑ NASCAR statistics, accessed September 2006
  2. ↑ Motorsports Hall of Fame of America announcement, accessed September 2006
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