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🇺🇸 Hap Sharp

Racing driver from United States. Formula 1, Brabham-BRM.
Driver facts
Full name
Hap Sharp
Born
1 January 1928(b. 1928)
Nationality
United States
Current team
Brabham-BRM
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
6
Career DNFs
2
Racer Rating
5,933
Hap Sharp
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,933
Rank 287 of 40,105 indexed, -33 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Hap Sharp is a racing driver from United States who last raced in Formula 1 for Brabham-BRM. Sharp has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 6 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,933 ranks Sharp 287th of 40,105 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1964 form
Last 6 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFUSAUSAUSAMEXUSAMEX
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1964-10-25Autódromo Hermanos RodríguezFormula 1P13−26
1964-10-04Watkins Glen InternationalFormula 1DNF+24
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+101Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 1963Formula 1P7
+25Watkins Glen International 1964Formula 1DNF
+16Watkins Glen International 1961Formula 1P10
+11Watkins Glen International 1962Formula 1P11
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1964▸Formula 1Brabham-BRM200100P14−15,966
1963▸Formula 1Lotus-BRM200100P13+405,967
1962▸Formula 1Cooper-Climax100000P16+115,927
1961▸Formula 1Cooper-Climax100000P12+4,5665,916
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Sharp finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇬🇧 Jim Clark6,5186060%
🇦🇺 Jack Brabham6,16363350%
🇳🇿 Bruce McLaren6,14362433%
🇬🇧 Graham Hill6,1306060%
🇬🇧 John Surtees5,95863350%
🇺🇸 Dan Gurney5,9456060%
🇬🇧 Innes Ireland5,82363350%
🇸🇪 Jo Bonnier5,61463350%
🇺🇸 Richie Ginther6,41351420%
🇬🇧 Trevor Taylor5,62253260%
🇬🇧 Stirling MossHigher-rated6,330110100%
🇮🇹 Lorenzo BandiniHigher-rated6,31842250%
🇲🇽 Pedro RodríguezHigher-rated6,22231233%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,105 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
277🇺🇸 Jimmy ReeceFormula 15,944
278🏳️ John LoveFormula 15,943
279🇨🇦 Lance StrollFormula 15,943
280🇺🇸 Bob ChristieFormula 15,942
281🇵🇹 Timo BernhardNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie5,942
282🇺🇸 Don FreelandFormula 15,941
283🇮🇹 Michele AlboretoIndyCar5,938
284🇺🇸 Chuck StevensonFormula 15,935
285🇬🇧 Tony BriseFormula 15,934
286🇪🇸 Alfonso de PortagoFormula 15,933
287🇺🇸 Hap SharpFormula 15,933
288🇲🇽 Hector RebaqueFormula 15,933
289🇧🇪 Jacky IckxFormula 15,931
290🇪🇸 Paco GodiaFormula 15,930
291🇮🇩 Rio HaryantoFormula 15,930
292🇺🇸 Pat FlahertyFormula 15,929
293🇫🇷 Yannick DalmasFIA GT Championship5,929
294🇮🇹 Gerino GeriniFormula 15,926
295🇺🇸 Jamie McMurrayNASCAR Truck5,924
296🇬🇧 Cliff AllisonFormula 15,922
297🇬🇧 Philip HansonWEC5,921
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Hap Sharp was an established professional driver who raced in Formula 1 between 1961 and 1964, competing for Brabham-BRM across six World Championship Grands Prix. His single-seater career placed him among the field's full range of amateurs and professionals, a level reflected in his rating of 5,933.[1]

Sharp's Formula 1 career spanned four seasons with limited starts. His most prominent season came in 1964, when he contested two rounds and finished 14th in the championship standings. His record against the grid's strongest drivers was mixed; he regularly faced Jim Clark, the two-time Formula 1 champion, and typically finished behind him, though he was closely matched with Jack Brabham, himself a three-time Formula 1 champion. Sharp's best results included a finish ahead of Jo Siffert and Jim Hall, both established professionals with substantial racing careers.[2]

Beyond Formula 1, Sharp made his mark as co-owner and driver of the Chaparral sports racing cars, the revolutionary mid-engined machines he and Jim Hall designed and built in Midland, Texas from 1962 onwards. Those cars became defining innovations in motorsport, their aerospace-inspired engineering and later aerodynamic developments reshaping racing design across multiple series and decades.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
Where legends idle: The Chaparral cars that changed racing, still live in Midland[1]
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