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Elliott Forbes-Robinson (born October 31, 1943, in La Crescenta, California) is a road racing race car driver. 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. 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.

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. In 1988, he took over the driver's seat from car owner Rick Hendrick during the final NASCAR race at Riverside International Raceway.

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 .

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.

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. His victory co-driving with Butch Leitzinger at the 2004 Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park gave him victories in 5 consecutive decades.

Awards

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

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Formula Super Vee

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

Daytona 500

24 Hours of Le Mans results

24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1971	Richie Ginther Racing	Alan Johnson	Porsche 911S	GT +2.0	50	DNF	DNF
1989	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Takashi Yorino Hervé Regout	Mazda 767B	GTP	365	9th	2nd
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See also

• Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
• Legends car racing

References

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2. Motorsports Hall of Fame of America announcement, accessed September 2006
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5. "ESPN 26 hour marathon for the Top NASCAR races as it turns 50 years old at Riverside International Raceway". Top NASCAR Races. 1999. 38:00 minutes in. ESPN2. ESPN.
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7. "2005 driving announcement, accessed September 2006". Archived from the original on 2006-10-29. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
8. Elliott Forbes-Robinson at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
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10. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson Racing highlights". driverdb.com. Driver Data base. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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12. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson – 1976 NASCAR Winston Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
13. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson – 1977 NASCAR Winston Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
14. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson – 1981 NASCAR Winston Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
15. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson – 1982 NASCAR Winston Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
16. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson – 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
17. "Elliott Forbes-Robinson – 1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
18. "All Results of Elliot Forbes-Robinson". racingsportscars.com. Retrieved January 4, 2019.

External links

• Pictures - A tribute to EFR
• Elliott Forbes-Robinson driver statistics at Racing-Reference

• 1943 births
• 24 Hours of Daytona drivers
• 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
• American Le Mans Series drivers
• Atlantic Championship drivers
• Rolex Sports Car Series drivers
• Living people
• NASCAR drivers
• Racing drivers from California
• Trans-Am Series drivers
• World Sportscar Championship drivers
• SCCA National Championship Runoffs winners
• SCCA Formula Super Vee drivers
• Formula Super Vee Champions
• People from La Crescenta-Montrose, California
• Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California