The Fifth Annual Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival in late March at the Riverside International Automotive Museum honored Bob Bondurant as its latest inductee. He joins Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser as a Legend of Riverside.
As the leader of Shelby’s FIA Manufacturers Championship-winning Cobra team in 1965, Bondurant scored seven wins from seven starts as Shelby American claimed the only FIA World Championship ever won by an American manufacturer. He is, of course, more famous for founding his Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, an idea that came to him while he recuperated from injuries received in a nasty crash at Watkins Glen during the 1967 USRRC season.
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