Bob Gerard, a spectacled over achiever and dogged fighter was born into a automotive family who owned Parr's LTD. A motorcycle firm that followed Triumph into the production of cars.
Gerard's father owned a Riley Sportscar and it was in this car that Gerard started his motorsports career hillclimbing in the 1930's.
Gerard went onto compete successfully post war in an ever ageing ERA achieving incredible results against much fancied opposition and he continued to use these cars in the first two years of the formula 1 World Championship in 1950, before switching to Cooper until 1957.
Although no championship points, Gerard was able to battle ageing machinery to three sixth placed finishes.
Before Formula 1 World Championship
Gerard cut his teeth competing in hillclimbs in the 1930's in the family Riley and was a regular at local club meetings at his local Donington Park achieving strong results ere and at Brooklands.
After the war, Gerard purchased his first out and out racing car, an ERA R4A, purchased off Reg Parnell for £1000
Gerard in his ageing ERA in pursuit
and used his engineering nous to tune the car and other ERA's followed as he and his wife Joan contested hillclimbs and circuit races whilst he continued to modify the cars.
Gerard used his modified ERA 14B to win three back to back British Empire Trophies in 1947, 1948 and 1949 and used this decade old car to finish thrid at the 1948 British Grand Prix behind the two brand new Maserati's of Alberto Ascari and Luigi Villoresi and a year later in the 1949 British Grand Prix finished second to Toulo de Graffenried.
Formula One Career
1950
A battling 6th for Gerard at Monaco
Bob Gerard continued his remarkable giant slaying in his ancient ERA into the 1950 Formula 1 season with a sixth place finish, ahead of Maserati and Talbot-Lago machinery at Silverstone.
A fete he achieved again at the second round of the season at Monaco, beating Talbot-Lago driver Johnny Claes into 6th.
Formula One Statistical Overview
Formula One Record
| Year | Entrant | Team | WDC Points | WDC Pos. | Report |
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Career Statistics
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Race Wins
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Career Results
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| Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pts | Pos | |||
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| Symbol | Meaning | Symbol | Meaning | ||
| 1st | Winner | Ret | Retired | ||
| 2nd | Podium finish | DSQ | Disqualified | ||
| 3rd | DNQ | Did not qualify | |||
| 5th | Points finish | DNPQ | Did not pre-qualify | ||
| 14th | Non-points finish | TD | Test driver | ||
| Italics | Scored point(s) for Fastest Lap | DNS | Did not start | ||
| 18th† | Classified finish (retired with >90% race distance) | NC | Non-classified finish (<90% race distance) | ||
| 4thP | Qualified for pole position | [+] More Symbols | |||
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