We vehemently deny the allegations that have been made by a handful of former employees about how the school was being managed. (Photo via Getty Images), Public File for KBCW-TV / KBCW 44 Cable 12. I was taking my buddy around the track and said, 'This is really great isn't it?' Bob's father owned a car dealership that sold fast cars in nearby Chicago; very fast carsCords to be exact. Certainly Bob's life was altered for the better as he was a bona fide Californian now going to Union High School in Westwood. Im telling you, I know this wouldve never happened.. 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In the interim, Bob did get back on track (or the horse so to speak), knowing he had a growing business to fall back on should anything catastrophic happen again, entering a Can-Am race June 1970 driving a Chevy Lola T160. He didn't answer. Bondurant taught stunt driving, competition driving, police pursuit driving, evasive driving for chauffeurs and bodyguards, plus other skills, according to the website. If my dad was mentally there like he was [then], we would have never gotten to this place. If youd like to read more about it or cast a bid you can visit the listing here. More importantly, he was in hot rod country that flourished 365 days a year rather than the "Windy City" area whose average temp was 49 degrees F. "I was always into cars and motorcycles. Bob says, "Look for the burning Ferraris.". The second was teaching the world to become champions., "As the President and CEO of Bondurant, I have always known that being the best in the world isn't easy and isn't a fixed point. The aluminum Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe will start at $394,995. This marks the second driving school in just over a. Bob Bondurant was a racing driver who founded the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, where he taught celebrities including Paul Newman (1925-2008) and Tom Cruise. Bob must've pinched himself: it was one thing to cruise the streets in his hot rod, but in a Formula 1 Ferrari! Bob Bondurant was one of the most successful American racing drivers of his era, he also coached a slew of celebrities in the finer points of race car driving including James Garner, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Tim Allen, Tom Cruise, and Nicolas Cage. He said you buy the crank and I'll put the motor back together, and for every race you win I won't charge you. It was really cool because I could do wheelies with it. On Twitter, his family wrote that he "passed away in his sleep after a short illness." Bob Bondurant, a race car driver and actor who coached actors as diverse as James Garner, Clint Eastwood and Heather Locklear through their careers, died at the age of 88. [2] In 1990 a purpose-built training facility was opened in Chandler, Arizona. Looking for something specific? Always in the back of his mind was going to Santa Barbara to watch the sports cars races, so Bob decided to try racing sports cars. He raced factory Ferrari GTs and Porsche prototypes, had brief spells in. [citation needed], The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving has graduated over 500,000 drivers since its opening in 1968. [1][2][3]. There's a definite correlation between Dan Gurney's budding start and Bob's. Some of the best Corvette racing duels were between him and David McDonald on the West Coast during the early 1960s. This team, driven to exceed all expectations, set out to bring the most exhilarating, inspiring, school of high-performance driving to motor sports fans around the world. Since Bob has never stopped racing (he still enters vintage events), he still has some sneaky moves his experienced instructors have never seen before. In 1989, Bob was invited to Firebird Raceway in Chandler, AZ to consider a lease agreement to build the world's first purpose-built driver training facility. Pat Bondurant, again, vehemently denied claims from the former employees about the management of the school. "I went to the Cal Club (California Sports Car Club) and said I wanted to go racing. [4], Bondurant was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2003. Bondurant also drove BRMs in five Grands Prix for Team Chamaco Collect, finishing 4th at Monaco. He talked me into going to a sports car race at the Santa Barbara airport course. He was 88. Bob Bondurant was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1933. Hetrained the films lead actor, James Garner, to drive Formula cars in the race sequences. He offered Bob a full Ford sponsorship of cars, parts, and marketing until 2003. He was one of a handful of Americans to compete in the Formula 1 Grand Prix series, and also raced at Le Mans. His mothers death left him inconsolable, which is where the seed of his fearlessness was realized. Since February 14th, 1968, Bondurant has been the premier driver-training destination for everyone from racing professionals looking for that winning edge to daily commuters seeking to become more proficient behind the wheel. Bondurant was one of the most famous drivers to emerge from the Southern California road racing scene in the 1950s, and achieved success in North America and in Europe. We invite you to share . A spokesperson for the school said they could not provide expansion on that statement or interviews right now, as they said the team there is focused on the schools restructuring. Bob was then inducted as the youngest member of the Galloping Gooses, which eventually became Hells Angels. At 23 years old, he discovered that he had more control with four wheels than he did with two, and his racing career began in a Morgan Plus 4. Jason Bondurant told Jalopnik that about a week after the walkout, the schools accounts wouldnt have had enough money to make payroll as things were, but that he had a plan to get the school through Jan. 1hence the fears about payroll. Stay up-to-date with our upcoming events! Copyright 2021 Associated Press. Do you wear belts or not? The 7,880-square-foot custom home of Pat and Bob Bondurant welcomes family, friends and racing associates with tinsel and gingerbread, garlands, glittering wreaths, food and festivity. Shelbys faith in Bondurant was quickly justified as he won his first race at theContinental Divide Raceway in Colorado. By the mid-1950s he was racing on four wheels in a British Morgan before switching to a Corvette and winning theWest Coast B Production Championship, taking victory in 18 out of 20 races. Temperature-controlledHook up to both your hot and cold water so you can control the temperature plus it comes with a heated seat. ERA GTs often sell for six figure sums when they do come up for sale, such is the esteem in which they are held. Click here to view Vintage Motorsports appreciation of the amazing life of Bob Bondurant. The current operators of the formerly leased facility have renamed the facility and have no affiliation with Bob Bondurant or the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving/ Bondurant Racing School. Bondurant is the only American to bring home the World Championship trophy back to the U.S. while racing for Carroll Shelby. Friday, November 12, 2021, the world lost an iconic American racing hero, Bob Bondurant. World Champion, Bob Bondurant, passed away on November 12th, 2021. Bondurant was actively at the track every day, enthusiastically greeting his new students until he was well over 85 years old. Bob Bondurant was one of the most successful American racing drivers of his era, he also coached a slew of celebrities This is Bob Bondurant at Riverside Raceway with the Shelby GT350 Mustang prototype for testing in 1965. For the early part of the past year, it appeared that a sorry end awaited the school that had been founded by Robert L. Bondurant, a world champion racer, in 1968 in Orange County, California,. This particular ERA GT is finished to the specification of the car driven by Bondurant in the 1965 Daytona Continental. He raced the Shelby Cobra CSX2345 through the 1964-1965 racing circuits and locked in more wins than anyone else on Shelby's team. The family has requested privacy at this time. As Bob went through the corner the rear axle broke sending him off the course backward and down a ravine. Right now, Bondurant's class sizes are about 60 percent full,. By the time he was 18; he was racing an Indian Scout motorcycle, and moved to sports cars in 1956 at the wheel of a Morgan. It's either me or the motorcycle.' Jason Bondurant said the alleged petition, to the left, was signed by 22 of the schools 33 employees, and that eight more would have signed but had not been into work for their shift yet. He then rose to the highest level in racing with Ferrari in Formula 1 and prototypes. No one from the school, including Bob Bondurant himself, have issued a comment beyond the statement. In a bankruptcy document signed by Pat Bondurant, the school mentioned Dodge and SRT as one of four factors that led to the bankruptcy-protection filing. I handed them $5, they handed me a Competition License and said, 'Now you can go racing.' A statement on his passing reads, in part, "Bondurant is the only American. Articles that Ben has written have been covered onCNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine,Road & Track Magazine,the official Pinterest blog, theofficialeBay Motorsblog, BuzzFeed, Autoweek Magazine, Wired Magazine, Autoblog, Gear Patrol, Jalopnik, The Verge, and many more. He kept racing, too. The new owners a . His best-known victory was winning the GT class at Le Mans 24 Hours in 1964 in Shelby's new Cobra Daytona Coupe with Dan Gurney co-driving. When the Bondurant school did reopen, new chief restructuring officer Timothy H. Shaffer said the school was working to reschedule classes from the closure period. Here are allegations of more general derogatory comments, via the ClassicCars.com Journal report: Two years ago, on the advice of an external human relations company, Jason Bondurant said he sent his mother home for two weeks after a worker overheard her making racist comments. [citation needed], Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Successful successions: Business owners plan for smooth retirement transition", "Last Year Firebird Raceway and the Arizona NHRA Nationals; In 2014 it's Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Bondurant_School_of_High_Performance_Driving&oldid=1137791074, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 13:15. If were going to leave, lets leave the right way and not be spiteful, he said. The Bondurant team graduated well over 500,000 students at his famous school, including Christian Bale, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, and Tom Cruise, to name a few. Jason Bondurant told the journal that working at the school truly was a very hostile, horrible environment.. The school closed a month later, though, with no information as to why and no indication of whether it would reopenor how the closure would affect existing agreements, like Bondurants customer obligations to the brands it works with. Here are a few of the claims, via the ClassicCars.com Journal, emphasis theirs: Multiple employees said Pat Bondurant made derogatory comments about people who lived in certain Phoenix suburbs. At Le Mans he led the GT class until a wrist pin failed putting the car out in the early morning. I actually live in Gilbert so I let her know. Bob formulated a plan to open a high-performance driving school. Bob realized his dream, opening the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving at Orange County Raceway on Valentine's Day 1968 with a Vee-Dub van (minus the peace signs and daisies), a Datsun 510, and a Formula V for starters. What a career. It's important to note that Bob was driving an eight-cylinder Ferrari while the factory drivers had V-12s. Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver who opened a high-performance driving school in 1968 and taught numerous A-list actors for their movie roles, has died. Were confident that once all of the legal matters are behind us and the school emerges from the restructuring, the truth will be told through the proper channels.. "I didn't think about the accident until we were doing the cool-off lap at the end of the race," he recalled. As a result, the schools assets, not the Bondurant name, were sold off in 2019. Bob is the first and only American to bring the World SportsCar Championship trophy home to America in the legendary Shelby Daytona Coupe No. The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving was the largest purpose-built driving school in the world. As funds dwindled leading up to the bankruptcy, the schools former financial controller Lavida Arvizu, who also walked out, said employees didnt trust they would get paid without herself or Jason Bondurant around to make sure it happened. ", Bob acquired the ultimate for any hot rodder, a severely chopped '34 Ford three-window coupe: "I found a chopped-and-channeled '34 coupe on a used car lot and I went drag racing with it at Santa Ana. Tim Rose, the former general manager of the school, also told the abovestory to Jalopnik. In 1966 Bondurant served as a technical consultant for John Frankenheimer's film Grand Prix and trained the film's lead actor James Garner to drive Formula cars in the race sequences. . In the same year he drove a works Ferrari Formula 1 car during the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, and handled a Lotus 33 for Reg Parnell at the following Mexican race. Motorsport Images. Bondurant was a driving instructor to actors James Garner, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Wagner, Tim Allen, Tom Cruise, and Nicolas Cage. Bondurant was one of two drivers (alongside Graham Hill) to help extricate Jackie Stewart from his fuel-leaking wrecked car during the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, the incident that led to Stewart's crusade for motor racing safety. Bob happened on a used car lot where Don was working. This marks the second driving school in just over. Its sad.. He was finally reunited with his elusive GT40, and wow, did he have fun tracking this car for the next eight years!, Bob tracked this car at a Shelby reunion on the Fontana Raceway. The Bondurant Racing School was founded in 1968 and has graduated celebrities for car movies like James Garner, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage, and Christian Bale, along with over 500,000 graduates from around the world. 'No.' 69-year-old suffers stroke in his N.C. home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. Bob's father owned a car dealership that sold fast cars in nearby Chicago; very fast carsCords to be exact. Bondurant, who passed away Nov. 12, at the age of 88, collected an enviable pile of trophies throughout the decades competing at tracks like the Nrburgring, Le Mans and Sebring, and in series including NASCAR CanAm and Formula 1. Image courtesy of the Bondurant Archives. This entire matter has broken Bobs heart. There was a lot of fiberglass flying.". In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Team USA Scholarship: [email protected]. Bob later had a '40 Ford he drag raced at Santa Ana, but Bob, ever the hot rodder, was ready to slow down the pace a bit with one cool street cruiser, a tail-draggin' '41 Ford custom. [Bob Bondurant] is a very good man, Jason Bondurant said, mentioning his adopted fathers stroke, knee replacement and other health problems. "I figured the ATS wasn't as fast as the Ferraris and after a few laps I began taking the corner flat-out at 150 mph. They have no idea where we are going.". It featured a 15-turn, 1.6-mile road course, an eight-acre asphalt pad for advanced training with more than 100 race-prepared vehicles, sedans, and open-wheel cars. One little Gendarme (French police officer) was standing on a box directing cars at this traffic circle and saw us coming right at him in a cloud of dust you can imagine the noise. Bondurant returned to race a Can-Am car at Watkins Glen a year after his crash. "If I'd been strapped in the car I would have been decapitated. When he made the decision to leave, he said, other employees went with him. Bob Bondurant. If youre not here, we know that were even more screwed, so we are leaving.. He'd fallen out of the car! Bob Bondurant excelled at the highest levels of sports car racing in the 1960s, with perhaps his greatest achievement coming in 1964 when he won the GT class at Le Mans 24 Hours driving with. That's how I learned to ride motorcycles," Bob laughs. The CSX2345 had innovative, distinctive features including wider front fender flares, cutback doors, and a tilt-back windshield to reduce drag. ", After graduating from high school, Bob dug ditches and unloaded furniture trucks at Bekins Van Lines, then later on, sold Corvettes to finance his racing. The name Bob Bondurant is synonymous with the Shelby Cobra. He finished the Formula One season in North America in two races, driving an Eagle for Dan Gurney's Anglo American Racers. 'You qualified Expert, you were the quickest.' He was a member of Carroll Shelby's team, racing the famed Cobra. Guildstrand set a record of 171.5 mph down the Mulsanne. "And I liked to talk to him a lot. I told her it didn't work. ", Bob knew the circuit well, having raced Le Mans in 1964, winning the GT Class in a Ford Daytona Coupe with Dan Gurney. He taught . ", When Bob was 18 he started racing motorcycles at Carrell and Culver City Speedways: "In those days you didn't have brakes; you went faster without brakes on the bikes. He won his class at Le Mans and has been inducted into ten motorsports halls of fame. I said, 'OK if you let me ride your Harley', there was a vacant lot and we made an oval out of it which had some jumps. For the early part of the past year, it appeared that a sorry end awaited the school that had been founded by Robert L. Bondurant, a world champion racer, in 1968 in Orange County, California, after he almost lost his life in a race when the steering arm of his McLaren MARK II CanAm snapped at 150 mph. The second was teaching the world to become champions.. Bob's father bounced back, becoming a surgical instrument sale representative once in California. COURAGE. Bob's massive 60-acre complex in Arizona is designed to show students the fastest and safest way around the 1.6-mile road course. Within a few years Bondurant had become one of the most promising drivers on the West Coast, between 1961 and 1963, he won 30 out of 32 races driving Corvettes for Santa Barbara Chevrolet dealer Shelly Washburn. The Bondurant Racing School was founded in 1968 and . Bob won 18 out of 20 races in 1959 in the '57, which smartly won Bob the "B" Production Championship and "Best Corvette Driver of the Year" in 1959. The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, THE BOB BONDURANT SCHOOL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVING. They gave me the signal to pull in and I decided to take one more lap.". It could happen again, if it did and the results were worse, how would he make a living, Bob wondered? Nissan Motor Company (under Datsun name in the U.S.) was Bondurant's sponsoring partner in his school from its beginning, and continued in that role at the Sonoma Raceway driving school. Following a crash at Watkins Glen in New York, Bondurant opened the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in 1968. Formula 1 came to the United States on a course steeped with racing history dating back to 1956: Watkins Glen. Not all of the alleged remarks were in relation to the school, though. The founder, Bob Bondurant, began his career as a racing driver . . Porsche, after witnessing how the school increased Datsun's profile, supplied Bondurant with Porsche 911s and Porsche 914s. I'd never been to one before and I really liked watching them race. You can call it character, you can call it determination, or you can just call it guts. He raced mostly in the USA but also spent one full season in the Formula One World Championship in 1966. That's when other car owners took notice of Bob's driving ability. November 14, 2021 / 2:02 PM He won his class at Le Mans and has been inducted into 10 motorsports halls of fame. Masten "Kansas City Flash" Gregory, another American who drove in F1, once stood up in the seat of his car and jumped out just before impact. []. Between 1961 and 1963, he won 30 out of 32 races in Washburn's Corvettes. As with the others, Pat Bondurant didnt respond directly to this allegation, but denied all of the allegations about school management. (The two Yanks didn't realize the French national colors are blue, white, and red, which might have had something to do with the salute. We had a meeting with Peyton Cramer and he wanted to go to Le Mans in 1967 and I said we gotta get one of the new L88s." His racing career began to soar in 1959, when he drove a Corvette in the Southern California region to the West Coast "B . [5] Bob Bondurant's copyrighted method taught competition driving, police pursuit driving, evasive driving for chauffeurs and bodyguards, stunt driving, and other courses.[6][7]. The next thing you know, he's driving a Cobra down a dark straightaway at 190-plus mph in France, not once, but for hours. This is an ERA GT that was built for Bob Bondurant, it was driven by the famed American racing driver a number of times and kept in his private collection. Bob Bondurant, Transportation Department: Grand Prix. Carol Bondurant (wife of G.T. He won his class at Le Mans and has been inducted into 10 motorsports halls of fame. Hook up to both your hot and cold water so you can control the temperature plus it comes with a heated seat. This week's reunion will be calmer, just a few minutes quietly recalling the life-changing event as . The pair went against Pat Bondurants wishes, informed employees and walked off the job. She said, 'You can't do that.' They met at a Russo and Steele auction. Over the years 52 drivers and 35 spectators have lost their lives on the 3.6-mile track. Sadly, Bob died in 2021 after some years of poor health. The allegations, which include belittlement, racism, unequal treatment and fears that they wouldnt get paid, come from a thorough report in the ClassicCars.com Journal substantiated by interviews with Jalopnik. Bob should be an inspiration to anyone who has a dream he followed his. Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. "It wouldn't idle under 70 mph. Bondurant won a world championship while racing for Carroll Shelby. This as around the time he caught the attention of Carroll Shelby, who was looking to hire the best drivers he could find for his new Ford Cobra team. His steering arm broke at 150mph, and, lying in traction at the hospital, he vividly remembers his conversation with God explaining to Bob that he was needed more on Earth and to start a driving and safety school to save thousands of lives of those otherwise dying on the highways and in motorsports. Its what gives you the confidence to be bold and to push harder. He was 88. I learned to drive in my buddy's mom's Chrysler," Bob chuckles. Still, more significantly, he won his last race in this very car at Pomona Raceway at the age of 79 and frequently tracked the car at his world-famous Bob Bondurant School of High Performance driving track. Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. Santa Barbara Chevrolet dealer Shelly Washburn hired Bondurant in 1961 to drive his #614 1959 Corvette. She had a Chrysler. Of course since Bob was an experienced dirt racer he could have picked up a used Midget or Sprinter and gone that route. Bondurant raced cars in the 1960s with some success until a crash at Watkins Glen, in New York curtailed his career. Bondurant won 30 of 32 races in Corvettes from 1961-63, and he won the GT class at Le Mans in 1964, co-driving with fellow American Dan Gurney. Robert Lewis Bondurant was born on April 27, 1933, to John Roper Bondurant and Ruth Williams Bondurant of Evanston, Ill. His father owned two luxury car dealerships named Bondurant Motors. When Bob turned two years old, the family moved to Westwood Village, Calif. Bob began his fascination with speed as a three-year-old on his first tricycle with playing cards clothes pinned on his spokes for the sound of the rush. He was 88. American racing legend Bob Bondurant has passed away aged 88. Everybody said, Were leaving under our own accord. Its a car that was developed to be indistinguishable from the original, despite the fact that it has a stronger chassis, a more heavy duty body, and even optional air-conditioning. In 1965, Bob Bondurant takes the wheel of a Ferrari Formula 1 race car during the US Grand Prix. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed, First published on November 14, 2021 / 2:02 PM. We damn near blew him off the box but he gives us this great big French salute. Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. Bondurant retired from racing at 79 after winning his last race at Pomona Raceway in his No. Bondurant trackside with Carroll Shelby while racing for the Cobra legend's team in the 1960s . PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver who opened a high-performance driving school in 1968 and taught numerous A-list actors for their movie roles, has died. Bondurant had four NASCAR starts, all at Riverside International Raceway, with his highest finish of 18th in 1981. This was an important race for the GT40 as it was the models first international victory, with GT40s finishing 1st and 3rd. He was 88. Bondurants final race in this car was in 2012 at the Auto Club Raceway Pomona, unsurprisingly hes said to have won despite being 79 years old. Racer.com traced his life story: [], [] driving school founder Bob Bondurant died Friday in Paradise Valley, Arizona, at the age of 88,Racerhas [], [] and driving school founder Bob Bondurant died Friday in Paradise Valley, Arizona, at the age of 88, Racer has learned.The son of a car dealer, Bondurant began racing in Corvettes on the West Coast in the [], Bob Bondurant, 1933-2021 RACER - Jakhala.com, Racing legend Bob Bondurant lifeless at 88 Abrar Gadget Shop, Racing legend Bob Bondurant dead at 88 AutoSector.com , BOB BONDURANT 1933-2021 The Road Racing Drivers Club, Racing legend Bob Bondurant dead at 88 - Aftermarket Alloy Wheels, Racing legend Bob Bondurant dead at 88 Born To Be Wild, All contents copyright 2023, Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. All rights reserved. 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