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Riverside 1971, my first win with Winkelman WDF2 and L-R Dale Mazzie, Dick Stubbe, myself and Terry King all helped me get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atlanta ARRC 1973 winning the National Championship in the ADF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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1974 Sears Point in the Royale Challenge a modified RP16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Laguna 1974 getting it all wrong entering the Corkscrew…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trying a F5000 car for the 1st time, Laguna turn 9 “old course”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Long Beach 1975 right before I ran out of money….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sold the F-5000 car and bought this Chevron B34 before getting the Ralt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Mentor Carroll Smith who taught me how to be a professional<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1979 At Long Beach a interesting start !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Won my first Pro Race at Road Atlanta in 1979 F-ATL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My 2nd pro win at Elkhart Lake 1980 ( I liked that track)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winning Macau GP 1981<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Running SV winning at Riverside 1981<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this point on I actually started getting paid to drive !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1985 The STP Fiero driving for Joe Huffaker, a great team !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1986 Same Fiero new livery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also 1986 driving the Spice Fiero in Camel Lights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1987 Drove this Spice to victory at Daytona 24 in Camel Lights Class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1987 Then drove this Fiero V6 for Dingman Bros with 2 wins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1988 Drove the V8 GTP Spice Firebird what was quick but unreliable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1989 Won Daytona 24 and finished 2nd at Sebring in the Roush Cougar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1989 Drove the MTI Vacations Spice Chevy GTP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1990 Hired to drive for NPTI with wins at Miami, Sebring 12 hour and the Glen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then the newer NXP90 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also Lemans and Daytona in the V8 “lola” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1992 Then testing the P35 V12 Car “which we never raced”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The P35 “early data acquisition system” lots of stuff….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1993 My last Pro season in the Brix Spice running Camel Lights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are many of my Clients Vintage cars that I had the privilege of testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TOJ DFV powered sports racer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just one of the many Chevrons, Lolas sports racers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes even a few big block Corvette’s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferrari 512S testing tail sections at Paul Ricard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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512M Tested and raced at the Classic LeMans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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312T3, Gilles Villeneuve’s car (1978)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferrari 312 B3 the car Niki Lauda won his first race for Ferrari<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferrari 312PB one of my favorite cars ever…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Riverside 1971, my first win with Winkelman WDF2 and L-R Dale Mazzie, Dick Stubbe, myself and Terry King all helped me get started. Laguna 1974 getting it all wrong entering the Corkscrew… Trying a F5000 car for the 1st time, Laguna turn 9 “old course” Long Beach 1975 right before I ran out of money…. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobearl.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}