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Bob Sharp - Board Member since 2011
SurvivetheDrive - Bob Sharp - Board Member since 2011 - Making Teen Drivers and New Drivers
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Bob Sharp is a six-time national Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) champion, IMSA GTU champion and racing partner of the late Paul Newman...click on image for full bio.
1/12/2012
Bob got his start in the automobile business in 1963, when he took over a two-bay Gulf service station In Ridgefield, Connecticut. He went on to own the largest Datsun, later Nissan, dealership in Connecticut. In '63, he began racing in a Datsun 310 Fairlady roadster. Then in '64 he headed up the factory-assisted East Coast Datsun Racing Team and went on to win the SCCA championships in Datsun Z cars and sedans. Paul Newman joined the effort in 1972 driving a Datsun 510 and in the '80's drove Datsun Z cars and various Datsun products in the famous professional Trans Am Series having joined forces as Newman-Sharp Racing. Bob is a former board chairman of In Control, a Massachusetts-based company that provides hands-on crash prevention training.
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