Bob Garretson

Bob Garretson (born April 8, 1933) is a former American racing driver.

Garretson was the owner-driver of a Porsche 935 sports car team named Garretson Enterprises in the early 1980s that competed part-time in both the World Sportscar Championship and IMSA GT Championship. During 1978 he won the Sebring 12 hours. In 1981 along with veteran Brian Redman and Bobby Rahal Garretson won the 24 Hours of Daytona. Despite not winning another race that season, Garretson won the 1981 World Endurance Championship for Drivers title which was the first awarded. He sold the team and retired from racing shortly thereafter.^[1]

In 2019, he was elected to the FIA Hall of Fame for his accomplishment as part of the FIA Hall of Fame's sportscar wing. WEC season-long champions are inducted into the FIA Hall.

Racing results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Driver(s)	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1978	Dick Barbour Racing	Bob Akin Steve Earle	Porsche 935/77	IMSA GTX	159	DNF	DNF
1979	Dick Barbour Racing	Edwin Abate Skeeter McKitterick	Porsche 935/78	IMSA GTX	283	8th	3rd
1980	Dick Barbour Racing	Allan Moffat Bobby Rahal	Porsche 935 K3	IMSA	134	DNF	DNF
1981	Cooke-Woods Racing	Ralph Kent-Cooke Anny-Charlotte Verney	Porsche 935 K3	IMSA GTX	328	6th	2nd
1982	Garretson Developments	Ray Ratcliff Anny-Charlotte Verney	Porsche 935 K3	IMSA GTX	299	11th	5th

References

↑ Miller, Susann. An Inside Championship by Wayne Baker, Porsche Year 1983-1984, M&M Publishing Co.

External links

Bob Garretson career summary at DriverDB.com

Winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona
run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–63) Daytona 2000 (1964–65) 6 Hours of Daytona (1972) 24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
Five-time	Hurley Haywood Scott Pruett
Four-time	Peter Gregg Pedro Rodríguez Rolf Stommelen Bob Wollek
Three-time	João Barbosa Derek Bell Hélio Castroneves Scott Dixon Christian Fittipaldi Butch Leitzinger Juan Pablo Montoya Brian Redman Memo Rojas Andy Wallace
Two-time	Filipe Albuquerque Max Angelelli Mauro Baldi Tom Blomqvist Terry Borcheller Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Kamui Kobayashi Jan Lammers Ken Miles Simon Pagenaud John Paul Jr. Lloyd Ruby Scott Sharp Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Wayne Taylor Didier Theys Al Unser Jr. Renger van der Zande
One-time	Allmendinger Alonso Amon J. Andretti Ma. Andretti Ballot-Léna Bandini Barber Beretta Bergmeister Bernhard Boesel Bouchut Bourdais Boutsen Braun Briscoe Brown Brundle Buckler Collard Dalziel Derani Dismore D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows Field Fitzpatrick Franchitti Fréon García Garretson Gentilozzi Gordon Graves Gurney Hand Hasemi Helmick Henn Herrmann Hezemans Hill Hoshino Ickx Jarvis Jelinski Joest D. Jones P. J. Jones Kanaan Kimball Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Larson Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin McMurray Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Neerpasch Negri Nielsen O'Connell Oliver Ongais Pace Papis C. Parsons Paul Sr. Pescarolo Pew Pilgrim B. Rahal G. Rahal Rice Robinson Rockenfeller Rossi Schneider Schrom Siffert Suzuki Unser Sr. Van der Merwe Van Overbeek Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson

Winners of the 12 Hours of Sebring
Six-time	Tom Kristensen
Five-time	Rinaldo Capello
Four-time	Frank Biela Pipo Derani Allan McNish
Three-time	Hans-Joachim Stuck Mario Andretti Marco Werner
Two-time	Bob Akin Sébastien Bourdais Geoff Brabham Derek Daly Loïc Duval Andy Evans Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio II Olivier Gendebien Hurley Haywood Hans Herrmann Phil Hill Al Holbert Jacky Ickx Stefan Johansson Nicolas Lapierre JJ Lehto Alex Lynn Emanuele Pirro Brian Redman Eric van de Poele Johannes van Overbeek Fermín Vélez Andy Wallace Phil Walters
One-time	Aïello Aitken Alboreto Baker Baldi Bamber Barbosa Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bomarito Bonnier Gary Brabham Brown Castellotti Collard Collins Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narváez Dumas Dyer Earl Elford Fässler Fitch Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Foyt Franchitti Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Heyer Hunter-Reay Jani Jarvis Kaffer Keyser Kulok Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles Millen Moffat Moretti Morton Moss Mullen Müller Nierop O'Connell Oliver Pace Panis Parkes Paul Jr. Paul Sr. Pescatori Peter Pruett Rahal Robinson Rojas Ruby Scarfiotti H. Sharp S. Sharp Siffert Sims Surtees J. Taylor R. Taylor W. Taylor Theys Tincknell Tréluyer Vaccarella Vautier Wollek Woods Wurz

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