John Buffum
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John Buffum (born October 4, 1943, in Wallingford, Connecticut) is the most successful U.S. rally racing driver ever, winning 11 national titles and 117 national championship events.
From 1977 to 1980, when British Leyland dropped out of U.S. racing, he won both the SCCA ProRally series and the North America Rally Championships. In 1981, he competed with an Audi 80 and Peugeot 504, but they were not competitive compared to Rod Millen's factory Mazda RX-7 rally cars.[1]
In addition to his North American schedule, John Buffum cherry-picked rallies in Europe, where he became the first and still the only American to win a European Championship event, taking the 1983 Sachs Rally in West Germany and the 1984 ERC Rally in Cyprus, both with Audi Quattro.
He also helped re-start the Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race in 1990.[2]
[edit] References
Rally Racing News. John Buffum Biography. Retrieved Dec 31, 2004.
[edit] External links
- Libra Racing, John Buffum's company.
- JohnBuffum.com - John Buffum's homepage.
- In Like a Lamb...Out Like a Lion. Champion co-driver and former National PRO Rally Manager, Tom Grimshaw, tells John Buffum's story and the course of rally racing in the United States.
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