Bobby Verdon-Roe

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Bobby Verdon-Roe
Nationality	British
Born	(1965-11-21) 21 November 1965 (age 58) Winchester, England
Racing career
Starts	TBC
Wins	TBC
Poles	TBC
Previous series
2011 2010 2009 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1998 1997 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988	Historic Formula One Championship Historic Formula One Championship Historic Formula One Championship 24 Hours of Le Mans FIA GT Championship FIA GT Championship FIA GT Championship British GT Championship British GT Championship FIA GT Championship British GT Championship TVR Tuscan Challenge TVR Tuscan Challenge BTCC BTCC Formula Renault Formula Renault British Formula Ford Championship Formula First
Championship titles
2011 2010 2009 1997 1991	Historic Formula One Championship Historic Formula One Championship Historic Formula One Championship Tuscan Challenge Formula Renault

Robert Geoffrey Verdon-Roe (born 21 November 1965 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British racing driver who has raced in various formats of motor sport throughout his career. He has won Formula Renault, TVR Tuscan and Historic Formula One Championships.

He is the grandson of Sir Alliott Verdon Roe who was a pioneer of British aviation and founder of the Avro aircraft company.^[1] He was educated at Ashdown House and Stowe School having been brought up in Portugal.

In 1988 he started racing in single-seaters, with no previous karting experience. Verdon-Roe came 3rd in the Formula First championship of 1988.^[2]

In 1989 he moved into Formula Ford and finished 3rd in the P&O European Ferries Championship behind David Coulthard and Kelvin Burt.

During 1990 and 1991 he raced in Formula Renault, culminating with him winning the Championship in 1991 after a heated battle with Jason Plato.^[3] He was nominated for an Autosport Award.

In 1992 Verdon-Roe switched to touring cars with a drive in a Vauxhall Cavalier for the Ecurie Ecosse team in the British Touring Car Championship.^[4] He also raced in the latter half of the Formula Vauxhall Championship that year.

In 1993 he drove a semi-works Toyota Carina E for the Park Lane Toyota Carina team. His best result that year was a 6th place at Snetterton and finished the championship down in 19th.^[5]

After a quiet spell which included a one-off race in Formula Three in 1994, Verdon-Roe returned to motorsport in the TVR Tuscan Challenge. In 1997 he won the TVR Tuscan championship overall and was nominated for an Autosport award.^[6] In 1998 he stayed with the factory team and finished a close 2nd in the championship ^[7] and the same year, competed with the new TVR Speed 12 in the British GT Championship.^[8] He also had his first taste of Historic racing, teaming up with Gerry Marshall in a Jaguar E-Type at Silverstone, finishing third after gaining pole position.^[9]

In 1999 he briefly raced for the Lister works team in the FIA GT Championship, before returning to TVR and racing their new Cerbera Speed 12 GT car in the British GT Championship in 2000 and 2001, winning three races and eventually finishing 3rd in the championship.^[10]

Verdon-Roe also drove one-off races in the European Le Mans Series in 2001 in 2002.^[11] In 2002 he returned to the Lister team and raced the Lister Storm in the FIA GT Championship. Highlights included a 2nd place at Silverstone and 2nd place at the Spa 24 hours, Lister's best ever result in a 24-hour race.^[12]

In 2003 he raced for the newly formed Creation Autosportif racing team driving the 2000 FIA GT Championship winning Lister Storm chassis (002) to 4th place in the FIA GT Championship.

In 2004 he again raced for Creation at Donington Park and the Spa 24 Hours in the Lister. He also raced once in the British GT Championship for Rollcentre Racing in the Mosler MT900R. There were also a number of entries in various historic events including the Le Mans 24 Hours Group C support race and winning the Spa-Francorchamps Classic Endurance Race.^[13]

In 2005 he raced in the Le Mans 24 hours race driving a Dallara Nissan LMP1 car for the Rollcentre team,^[14] as well as the Spa 24 Hours for the Lister team.

In 2008 he won the Goodwood Revival's feature race, the RAC TT Celebration, driving a Ferrari 330 LMB with Peter Hardman, the first victory for a Ferrari in the TT since the Revival began.^[15]

In 2009 Verdon-Roe won FIA Historic Formula One Championship driving a McLaren M26. At the Revival he shared the Ferrari 330 LMB with Emanuele Pirro finishing 2nd.^[16]

In 2010 he won the Grand Prix Historique of Monaco aboard the ex-James Hunt McLaren.^[17]

He also won the FIA Historic Formula One championship ground effect class and finished 2nd overall driving a McLaren MP4/1B.^[18] At the Goodwood Revival he shared the Ferrari with Tom Kristensen, but retired having started from pole position.^[19]

In 2011 he again finished 2nd overall in the FIA Historic Formula One Championship and won the ground effect class in the ex-Niki Lauda McLaren.^[20] At the Revival he raced Aston Martin DBR1-2 to 2nd place in the Sussex Trophy.^[21]

In 2012 he finished 2nd in the Grand Prix Historique of Monaco ^[22] and 2nd in Goodwood Revival's TT Celebration race driving a Jaguar E-type.^[23]

In 2015 he won the Sussex trophy in the Ferrari Dino 246S at the Goodwood Revival.^[24]

In 2021 he finished 5th with Martin Brundle in the AC Cobra known as Snakeyes in the RAC TT at the Goodwood Revival.^[25]

In 2022 he finished 7th with Alex Brundle in the AC Cobra known as Snakeyes in the RAC TT at the Goodwood Revival.^[26]

In 2023 he finished 9th, after it rained, in Snakeyes, with Alex Brundle in the RAC TT at the Goodwood Revival.^[27]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
1991	Fortec Motorsport	Van Diemen RF91	Oulton Park 3rd	Silverstone 2nd	Thruxton 3rd	Brands Hatch 4th	Oulton Park 2nd	Snetterton 2nd	Mallory Park 1st	Donington Park 1st	Cadwell Park 1st	Brands Hatch DSQ	Knockhill 1st	Thruxton 3rd	1st	xx

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Pts
1992	Ecurie Ecosse Vauxhall	Vauxhall Cavalier	SIL 11	THR 16	OUL 7	SNE 13	BRH 9	DON 1 11	DON 2 9	SIL 8	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 Ret	PEM	BRH 1	BRH 2	DON	SIL			14th	9
1993	Park Lane Toyota Junior Team	Toyota Carina E	SIL 14	DON Ret	SNE 6	DON 12	OUL 7	BRH 1 8	BRH 2 15	PEM 15	SIL 12	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 Ret	OUL 13	BRH 17	THR 17	DON 1 Ret	DON 2 DNS	SIL Ret	19th	11

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
1994	DAW Racing	Dallara F393	Silverstone DNF	xx

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2005	Rollcentre Racing	Michael Krumm Harold Primat	Dallara SP1-Nissan	LMP1	133	DNF	DNF

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2002	Graham Nash Motorsport	Bobby Verdon-Roe Ian McKellar Thomas Erdos Ron Johnson	Saleen S7-R-Ford 6.9L V8	GTS	428	39th	7th

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos	Points
1999	Lister Storm Racing	Bobby Verdon-Roe Julian Bailey Tiff Needell	Lister Storm GTM	GT1	Monza Ret	Silverstone GP Ret
2001	Lister Storm Racing	Bobby Verdon-Roe Jamie Campbell-Walter	Lister Storm GTM	GT	Jarama ESP Ret	Estoril PT 2nd
2002	Lister Storm Racing	Bobby Verdon-Roe Paul Knapfield Miguel Angel de Castro David Sterckx Justin Law Ian McKellar David Warnock	Lister Storm GTM	GT	Magny Cours Ret	Silverstone 2nd	Spa 24 hours 2nd
2003	Creation Autosportif	Bobby Verdon-Roe Peter Snowdon Marco Zadra Duncan Huisman	Lister Storm GTM	GT	Barcelona 4th	Magny Cours 15th	Enna Pergusa 4th	Brno 6th	Donington 5th	Spa 24 hours DNF	Anderstorp DNF	Oschersleben 2nd	Estoril DNF	Monza 8th				4th =	30
2004	Creation Autosportif	Bobby Verdon-Roe Jamie Campbell-Walter Peter Snowdon Jamie Derbyshire	Lister Storm	GT				Donington DNF	Spa 24 hours DNF
2005	Lister Storm Racing	Bobby Verdon-Roe Justin Keen Liz Halliday Jens Moller	Lister Storm	GT					Spa 24 hours
2005	Konrad Motorsport	Bobby Verdon-Roe Harald Becker	Saleen S7-R	GT	Monza 17th

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos	Points
1998	TVR Engineering	Bobby Verdon-Roe Martin Short John Kent	TVR Cerbera Speed 12	GT1	SIL 1	OUL 1	CRO 1	SNE 1 4	SIL 1 7	DON 1 9	SIL 1 DNS	SPA 1	SIL 1
2000	TVR Engineering	Bobby Verdon-Roe Ian McKellar	TVR Cerbera Speed 12	GT	THR 1 Ret	CRO 1 Ret	OUL 1 7†	DON 1 Ret	SIL 1 1	BRH 1 3	DON 1 Ret	CRO 1 4	SIL 1 9	SNE 1 Ret	SPA 1 4	SIL 1 3		6th	60
2001	TVR Motorsport	Bobby Verdon-Roe Michael Caine	TVR Cerbera Speed 12	GT	SIL 1 5	SNE 1 15	DON 1 3	OUL 1 3	CRO 1 2	ROC 1 1	CAS 1 2	BRH 1 1	DON 1 2	KNO 1 8	THR 1 Ret	BRH 1 13	SIL 1	3rd

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos	Points
2009	Scuderia BVR	McLaren M26 -5	F1 Historic														1st
2010	Scuderia BVR	McLaren MP4/1B	F1 Historic														1st
2011	Scuderia BVR	McLaren MP4/1B	F1 Historic														1st

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	Tim Samways Sporting & Historic Cars	Peter Hardman	Ferrari 330 LMB			3rd
2008	Tim Samways Sporting & Historic Cars	Peter Hardman	Ferrari 330 LMB			1st
2009	Tim Samways Sporting & Historic Cars	Emanuelle Pirro	Ferrari 330 LMB			2nd
	Tim Samways Sporting & Historic Cars	Nick Leventis	Ferrari 246S Sino			1st
2010	Tim Samways Sporting & Historic Cars	Tom Kristensen	Ferrari 330 LMB			DNF
2011	JD Classics	John Young	Jaguar E-Type			2nd
2012
2014	Mark Lewis Motorsport	Jamie McIntyre	Iso A3/C			6th
2015	Tim Samways Sporting & Historic Cars		Ferrari 246S Dino			1st
2021	Historic Automobiles	Martin Brundle	AC Cobra			5th
2022	Historic Automobiles	Alex Brundle	AC Cobra			7th
2023	Historic Automobiles	Alex Brundle	AC Cobra			9th

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed a sufficient number of laps.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Thomas Erdos	British Formula Renault UK series champion 1991	Succeeded by Pedro de la Rosa