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Hobbs and the Bimmers for a Decade, David Hobbs Was BMW North America's Star Driver, Piloting Csls, 320 Turbos and March-Chassised Prototypes to IMSA Glory

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Hobbs and the Bimmers for a Decade, David Hobbs Was BMW North America's Star Driver, Piloting Csls, 320 Turbos and March-Chassised Prototypes to IMSA Glory people Hobbs and the Bimmers For a decade, David Hobbs was BMW North America's star driver, piloting CSLs, 320 Turbos and March-chassised prototypes to IMSA glory. hat you, David?" I ask. Where BMW was concerned, Hobbs "Who else do you know with had driven its IMSA CSL in a couple of this funny an accent?" he replies. races early in 1976, teaming with Benny That accent-which still bears more than Parsons at Daytona and Sebring. Mayer's a trace of Coventry, England's Motown, after pitch was for another IMSA attack, this one more than 30 years in the US.-should be at the wheel of an as-yet-undeveloped instantly familiar to anyone who's watched BMW sedan racer. a Formula One race over the last few sea- sons. But it's not so much where that voice An intense training regimen comes from as how it's used, its owner "So I went to the Faaaatherland to see David Hobbs stretching and bending his Jochen," Hobbs says, "and we ended up words in such an idiosyncratic manner. And doing a test at Paul Ricard in a 320." that's not to mention the diction, itself rather Hans Stuck, Marc Surer and Manfred idiosyncratic, or the legendary wit. Winkelhock were also there. Hobbs ran glori- Hobbs has been a presence on American ously and signed with Neerpasch to shoe the television since 1976, when CBS hued him as Bimmer in 1977's IMSA GT events. First, a race commentator at least partly on the though, it was off to Jochen's January fitness strength of his performance in a documen- camp for contracted BMW team drivers. tary I'd made five years earlier that featured "We all arrive at the factory," says Hobbs' on-track rivalry with Sam Posey. That Hobbs of himself, Ronnie Peterson, Harold CBS job, as well as Hobbs' success behind the Gross and Gunnar Nilsson, among others, Daytons, '78: Davld wheel, led to an invitation from McLaren's "and there in the car park are thirty 323s, Hobbs (on wall) shows Teddy Mayer to meet BMW Motorsport boss the latest and greatest 3 Series. Jochen the strain of night rac- Jochen Neerpasch, "partially because I was Neerpasch, looking like an SS general in ing in the 320 Turbo. now on TV and becoming better known over his long black coat, is saying, 'We are all Roger Bailey looks on. here," Hobbs says. going to St. Moritz and driving very care- By 1976, Hobbs had already competed fully because BMW owns the cars and we and won in an enormous variety of are representing the factory. We are going bystanders gasping. "Of course," Hobbs machines, having started in a Lotus Elite to maintain full control. No stupid driving, says, "I'm driving like a madman trying to and a Jaguar XK140 equipped with his and I don't want to see any racing or other hang on!" father's Hobbs Mecha-matic non-torque ridiculous antics. You will all follow me.' It gets worse. "Then there is Marc Surer, converter automatic, which caused his fel- "Neerpasch then jumps into the lead whose 323 is planted right in the frrrront of low competitors first to laugh and then to 323, drops the clutch, screeeeeeanzs out the this Fiat," Hobbs tells, "and Jochen gripe when he beat them. He'd since driv- gate, and from there on we have this Neerpasch is standing there looking very en in Formula Junior, Formula Two, maaaaniacal chase through southeastern thoughtful. Theeeerz, along come some of our Formula One, Trans-Am, Can-Am, Indy, Germany, up into Switzerland, over the victims. I mean, tlus truck driver gets out Le Mans, and Formula A open-wheelers, border and down to St. Moritz. It was the swinging this bloody jack-handle. So winning the latter championship with a most haaaaair-raising drive I've ever done!" Neerpasch says to me and Ronnie, 'I think McLaren MlOB in 1971, the year my film Gross spun in slush as they flew full-bore you better go on to the hotel and we will meet was shown nationwide on CBS. through quaint little villages, leaving you there."' Miraculously,reprisal is avoided. 98 AUGUST 2005 Bimmer "Our training at St. Moritz was American facility at Livonia, M&gan- out of BhV? Motoarsport in German3 for- intense," Hobbs says, "a lot of cmss-coun- these "outside mods*' being a first for tra- mer NASCAR and SCCA wrench Wilq try skiing, for miIes. But of murse every ditionally dosed-shop BMW, [The IMSA McCoy was hired by ex-Chaparral guru night Ronnie would put his fur caat on, CSL program had been run by Gary ahs son to take charge of its engines. which came down to his ankles, and he'd Motorsport mechanics out of Donnie And since Bayerisehe Motoren Werke go back to town and get picked up and AllisanFa shop in Alabama.] Roger wanted this 320 race program to publicize dance a11 ilight. And the drive home the ^Jibost"' Bailey joined as team manager- its roadgoing cars in North Americaf BW following week was just as Bd!" Habbs already knew Bailey having raced NA competition manager Jim Pattersan- Getting down to business in the US,, with him in England "when we were just "keen as muskrd," Hc~bbsdescribes him- spomrsMp and proven talent gravitated kids" before Bailey went on to build added PK/media ingenue Carla Harman to to the new 320 program, The cars would engines for M~Larenand later put Johmp the squad, To quote Roger Bai1e J "It was a be hilt by Motorsport, but they'd be Rutherford on the pole at Indy, very diverse group, adthat was prabably tuned at MeLaren Engines' North While the track-ready 320 itself came why it worked," Bimmer AUGUST 2005 99 Racing with "the popular team" didn't always go well. Then, Bailey says, (Above, left to right) Having jud broken the lap Come February 1977, the crew went to "It was David's attitude that kept the team record by more than 5 seconds, Hobbs was the 24 Hours of Daytona with Germany's together, because even in the darkest of clearly elated to take pofe at Laguna Sea In normally aspirated Junior Team car. Back moments he would throw a zinger and 1977. Hobbs and Wley McCoy share a laugh at in Livonia, McCoy was scrambling to everybody would laugh when they really Road Atlanta, '77. McCoy and Mark Rushman ready a turbocharged version of the four- wanted to cry." replace the owiecehood on the new sgllght- cylinder MI217 F2 motor that would be Hobbs proved adept mechanically, too. weigm' 320 at Ume Rock, 1978. able to compete with A1 Holbert's muscled- Of his initial Circuit Paul Ricard test for up Chevy Monza (also McLaren-motored) Neerpasch, he recalls, "I did my laps and and A1 Holbert. Al's Goliath 6-liter grunt and and that near-bulletproof arsenal of said, 'I think we need to stiffen the rear roll failing brakes versus David's turbo lag but Porsche 934 Turbos headlined by former bar up on this thing.' And they said, 'This flawless binders saw the two swap for the BMW CSL racer Peter Gregg. car does not have a rear roll bar!' And I lead almost to the flag, when Hobbs pulled Daytona was an outright flop for the said, 'Perhaps that explains it.' Later, when what he called "a pretty foolhardy outside unblown Bimmer. Not until mid-April did Roger informed Germany, 'The driver move, because anybody but A1 would have the McLarenized 320 make its turbo'd needs a rear bar,' they went apoplectic!" just eased me straight off the road." debut at Road Atlanta, where Hobbs fin- For Laguna Seca in '77, Bailey went Hobbs won that race, but at year's end, ished fourth. By Laguna Seca in May, he ahead and had McCoy install a rear anti- Holbert was champion. "I didn't bounce was on pole, and at Mid-Ohio in June he roll bar, made of Indycar stuff from adjoin- off too many cars, and we kept making won, a feat he duplicated at Sears Point in ing rooms in Livonia. Hobbs took pole, improvements on ours," Hobbs says. "I July. With six races left in the 1977 season, shattering Laguna's track record by five thought we had tremendous potential, but the David Hobbs McLaren/BMW quasi- seconds. Bailey's glowing report on the bar it never ever seemed to grow beyond that." factory team was lookin' mighty fine. sent BMW brass "absolutely berserk." What was it really all about, then, this "It was a great little car," says Roger "'Take it off!"' Hobbs says they factory BMW effort that gave flashes of suc- Bailey. "It sounded good, performed well, screamed. "They still1111 wouldn't accept cess though it lacked support enough to and people loved to see it run, shooting out it!" Bailey then removed the bar, put it back earnestly pursue the championship? As it a mile of flame every time you backed off." on and gave it no further mention. Carla, who wrote reports, set interviews Most of the political problems were with (Below, lefl to right) Hobbs teamed with Derek and took pictures, called theirs "the popu- Neerpasch. "[Paul] Rosche was more free Bell, far rlght, for a nlmlaceflnkh at MktOhlo lar team" when measured against what with us," McCoy recalls. "You could sit with In 1979; hem the drivers confer with McLarenss else was out there in the IMSA series.
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