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Bob Jane
Nationality
Australian
Born
(1929-12-18)18 December 1929
Died
28 September 2018(2018-09-28) (aged 88)
Retired
1981
Australian Touring Car Championship
Years active
1962–1974
Teams
Bob Jane Autoland
Wins
10
Best finish
1st in 1962, 1963, 1971 & 1972
Previous series
1961–63 1965–66 1965–66 1966 1970 1980–81
Australian GT Championship Tasman Series Australian Drivers' Championship Australian 1½ Litre Champ. Australian Sports Car Champ. Australian Sports Sedan Champ.
Championship titles
1961 1962 1962 1963 1963 1963 1964 1971 1972
Armstrong 500 Australian Touring Car Champ. Armstrong 500 Australian Touring Car Champ. Australian GT Championship Armstrong 500 Armstrong 500 Australian Touring Car Champ. Australian Touring Car Champ.
Awards
2000
V8 Supercars Hall of Fame
Robert Frederick Jane (18 December 1929 – 28 September 2018) was an Australian race car driver and prominent entrepreneur and business tycoon. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that became the prestigious Bathurst 1000 and a four-time Australian Touring Car Champion, Jane was well known for his chain of tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts. Jane was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2000.
Champion, Jane was well known for his chain of tyre retailers, BobJane T-Marts. Jane was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2000. BobJane grew...
increased. In 1963, BobJane and Harry Firth again triumphed, this time in a Cortina GT. In 1964 the pair drove competing Cortina GTs; Jane won with George...
use today. Competitors at this meeting included former Calder Park owner BobJane (Autoland Jaguar 3.8 #84), Norm Beechey (Holden #40), John Wood (Holden...
out of his testing was the Edelbrock Cross-Manifold.[citation needed] BobJane won both the 1971 and 1972 Australian Touring Car Championships at the...
Network. HSV Melbourne. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via Argiri on YouTube. "BobJane Stadium Redevelopment". Austadiums. Archived from the original on 17 May...
four-time Australian Touring Car Championship and Bathurst 500 winner, BobJane, whose personal A$54m investment created the Thunderdome at the Calder...
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favorite co-star Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell". He joked, "Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving...
owned by Australian Motorsport Club Limited under the auspices of the BobJane Corporation. The circuit is located 26 km (16 mi) north of Adelaide in...
(97 km/h) in 8.5 seconds and could reach a top speed of 125 mph (201 km/h). BobJane won the 1962 Australian Touring Car Championship driving a 3.8 litre Mark...
Negotiations were held with rival BobJane T-Marts to acquire the chain but ultimately fell through, with BobJane instead choosing to only purchase a...
victories driving against competitors of the highest calibre, such as BobJane, Norm Beechey and Allan Moffat. He also won the prestigious Bathurst 1000...
by 1962 and 1963 champion BobJane who drove a 7.0 litre Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 in 1971 before CAMS rule changes forced Jane to use the smaller 5.7 litres...
nips and bobs and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) ... that I think myself in hell. Around February 1547, Jane was sent to...
winning the event five times between 1953 and 1962. Firth then teamed with BobJane in a Mercedes-Benz 220SE to win the 1961 Armstrong 500 at Philip Island...
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the first championship to be held over multiple rounds. It was won by BobJane who, soon after, purchased the circuit and also won the 1972 round. Allan...