Happy birthday to David Hobbs! He started racing in 1959 in his mom's Morris Oxford. Within three years, he was at Daytona driving someone else's Jaguar and lending his own Lotus Elite to Jimmy Clark.

The career that followed touched every corner of motorsport. 

Formula 1 for Honda, McLaren, and BRM. 

Sports cars in the Ford GT40, the Mirage, the Ferrari 512M, and Porsche 917s and 956/962s. 

IMSA Camel GT for BMW. 

Fifth place at the Indianapolis 500 in a McLaren. 

Championships in Formula 5000 and Trans-Am. 

He even led the Daytona 500 in a NASCAR stock car. 

A British driver leading the biggest stock car race in America. In the same career where he raced a Porsche 917 and a Ferrari 512M. 

 Twenty starts at Le Mans. Two third-place finishes. 

Two decades of returning to the same race, in different cars, for different teams, across different eras of the sport. 

After the driving Hobbs joined CBS in the early 1970s and became one of the most recognizable voices in American motorsport television, eventually working with SPEED.

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