Bob Jane
| Bob Jane | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 1929 (age 87–88) |
| Retired | 1981 |
| Australian Touring Car Championship | |
| Years active | 1962–74 |
| Teams | Bob Jane Autoland |
| Wins | 10 |
| Best finish | 1st in 1962, 1963, 1971 & 1972 Australian Touring Car Championship |
| 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 "Bob" Jane (born 1929) is an Australian former race car driver and prominent businessman. 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 is perhaps known best nowadays for his chain of tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts. Jane was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2000.
Jane grew up in Brunswick, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. In the 1950s, he started Bob Jane Autoland, a company which distributed parts for Jaguar and Alfa Romeo. Through this venture, a love of cars and motorsport blossomed and he first entered competitive racing in Australia in 1956; by 1960, he was racing with some of Australia's top sedan drivers.
In 1961, Jane and co-driver Harry Firth won the Armstrong 500 at Phillip Island, Victoria, driving a Mercedes-Benz 220SE. Jane and Firth won the race again the following year, the last before the event moved to Mount Panorama at Bathurst, New South Wales, retaining the Armstrong 500 name. Jane, driving for the Ford works team, won a further two Armstrong 500s at the new venue, the first with Firth in 1963 and the second in 1964 with George Reynolds as co-driver. Despite the change of venue, Jane is officially credited with winning Australia's most famous endurance race four times in a row, something no other driver, not even 9 time race winner Peter Brock, has ever done.
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