Bob Anderson (racing driver)

Robert Hugh Fearon Anderson (19 May 1931 – 14 August 1967)<ref name="autocourse">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Silhouet">Template:Cite web</ref> was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1960<ref name="Bob Anderson career statistics at MotoGP.com">Template:Cite web</ref> and in Formula One from 1963 to the 1967 seasons.<ref name="Bob Anderson F1 Statistics & Profile">Template:Cite web</ref> He was also a two-time winner of the North West 200 race in Northern Ireland. Anderson was one of the last independent privateer drivers in Formula One before escalating costs made it impossible to compete without sponsorship.<ref name=autocourse/><ref name="Bob Anderson">Template:Cite web</ref>

Racing career

Motorcycle racing

Anderson was born in Hendon in the north of London and later lived in Haynes, Bedfordshire.<ref name=autocourse/><ref name="Whatever happened to...? Bob Anderson">Template:Citation</ref> He trained as an agricultural engineer, though left after a year and got a job as a mechanic in a local machinery dealer.<ref name="Bob Anderson"/><ref name="Whatever happened to...? Bob Anderson"/> He began his motorcycle racing career in 1953 competing on a 500cc Triumph Special at Cadwell Park.<ref name="Whatever happened to...? Bob Anderson"/> By 1955 he was racing a Matchless G45 at circuits such as Crystal Palace and Castle Combe and placed 8th at the 1955 Senior Manx Grand Prix.<ref name="Whatever happened to...? Bob Anderson"/> Switching to a Norton in 1956, he finished second to Jimmy Buchan at the Senior Manx Grand Prix and won the 500cc North West 200.<ref name="Whatever happened to...? Bob Anderson"/>

Anderson established himself as one of the top national competitors in 1957 with victories at Cadwell Park, Crystal Palace, Snetterton, Brands Hatch and won the 350cc North West 200.<ref name="Whatever happened to...? Bob Anderson"/> He finished second to world champion John Surtees at the 1958 Senior TT race at the Isle of Man, then considered the most prestigious motorcycle race on the world championship circuit.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Anderson began to compete in the Grand Prix world championships in 1958, scoring another second place result behind Geoff Duke at the 350cc Swedish Grand Prix.<ref name="Bob Anderson career statistics at MotoGP.com"/>

Switch to auto racing

At the end of 1960, Anderson sustained a back injury while racing in South Africa, which led him to switch to auto racing at the relatively late age of 29.<ref name="autocourse"/><ref name="Silhouet"/> In 1961 he drove a Lola in a Formula Junior race at Snetterton. He continued to race cars and eventually competed as a Team Lotus driver in the Formula Junior championship, winning a race at Autodrome de Montlhéry and finishing second at Monaco.<ref name="Bob Anderson profile">Template:Cite web</ref>

He entered Formula One in 1963 with his own Lola Mk4 car, under the guise of DW Racing Enterprises, a small team compared to other private outfits such as Scuderia Filipinetti or Rob Walker Racing Team. DW was actually only composed of Anderson and a small team of mechanics. Despite this hindrance he took the flexible little Lola to victory in the non-Championship Rome Grand Prix in that first year. In later years he ran private Brabham cars under the same banner, with his best result a third place in the 1964 Austrian Grand Prix. He was awarded the Von Trips Memorial Trophy as the most successful private entrant of 1964.<ref name=autocourse/>

In 1967 he suffered an accident while testing at Silverstone, in which he slid off the track in wet conditions and hit a marshal's post.<ref name="Bob Anderson profile"/> Anderson suffered serious chest and neck injuries and died later in Northampton General Hospital.<ref>Autocar, 17 August 1967, Page 50: Obituary.</ref>

Racing record

Motorcycle Grand Prix results

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6
Points	8	6	4	3	2	1

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points	Rank	Wins
1958	350cc	Norton	IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL	GER Template:Small	SWE Template:Small	ULS	NAT Template:Small		11	5th	0
	500cc	Norton	IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL Template:Small	GER	SWE	ULS	NAT		7	8th	0
1959	350cc	Norton	FRA Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	GER			SWE	ULS	NAT	5	9th	0
	500cc	Norton	FRA	IOM Template:Small	GER	NED	BEL Template:Small		ULS	NAT	1	15th	0
1960	125cc	MZ		IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL		ULS	NAT		2	9th	0
	250cc	MZ		IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL	GER	ULS	NAT		0	–	0
	350cc	Norton	FRA	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small			ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small		9	5th	0
	500cc	Norton	FRA	IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL	GER	ULS	NAT		0	–	0
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Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Template:Tooltip	Pts
1963	DW Racing Enterprises	Lola Mk4	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR Template:Small	GER	ITA Template:Small	USA	MEX	RSA		NC	0
1964	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	AUT Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA	MEX		11th	5
1965	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	RSA Template:Small	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	NED Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA	USA	MEX		NC	0
1966	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	MON Template:Small	BEL	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	NED Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA	MEX			17th	1
1967	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	RSA Template:Small	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX	16th	2
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Non-Championship Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1963	DW Racing Enterprises	Lola Mk4	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	LOM Template:Small	GLV	PAU Template:Small	IMO Template:Small	SYR Template:Small	AIN	INT	ROM Template:Small	SOL Template:Small	KAN Template:Small	MED Template:Small	AUT	OUL Template:Small	RAN
1964	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT Template:Small	SOL Template:Small	MED	RAN Template:Small
1965	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	ROC Template:Small	SYR Template:Small	SMT Template:Small	INT Template:Small	MED	RAN
1966	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	RSA Template:Small	SYR Template:Small	INT Template:Small	OUL Template:Small
1967	DW Racing Enterprises	Brabham BT11	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	ROC Template:Small	SPR Template:Small	INT Template:Small	SYR	OUL	ESP