🇬🇧 Bob Evans

Bob Evans was an established professional who raced in Formula 1, competing for Brabham and BRM between 1975 and 1976. He made ten starts across two seasons in the world championship, driving machinery prepared by BRM for eight of those races. The field he raced in mixed semi-professional entrants with graded professionals at the highest level of single-seater racing.[1]

Evans finished 16th in the 1976 championship standings, his final season in the series. He did not score world championship points across his career. His results placed him regularly behind stronger drivers; he finished behind Carlos Reutemann, an elite professional with 146 Formula 1 starts, in most of their meetings, and finished behind Jody Scheckter, the 1979 Formula 1 champion, when they raced together. He beat John Watson, an established professional who would take 152 Formula 1 starts, twice, and finished ahead of Clay Regazzoni once.[2]

Evans competed in a grid that included world-class professionals. BRM, the team that fielded him for the majority of his starts, had won 17 races across its history and had employed Jackie Stewart, an elite professional, among its 64 drivers. Evans' record against his peers placed him in the lower reaches of a championship dominated by drivers considerably stronger than himself.