Bob Bondurant Has Left Us

Sad news indeed!

I’ve been to his school for three classes and the first couple of times he was there every day. The first year my brother and I were in the Vipers and, as your ripping along the straightaway, you need to be heavy on the brakes and downshifting before entering turn #1. I could see Bob was up on the flag stand/crows perch looking down at the cars passing by one morning. We all got back into the classroom after track time and Bob came in and said “Who was in cars #17 and #11?” My brother and I raised our hands and Bob commented on the nice downshifting he heard that session.

The third time we were there he was already in the old folks home.

It was a pleasure getting a compliment from a legend.