Brian Sampson (racing driver)

Last updated

Brian Sampson (17 June 1935 – 17 November 2023) was an Australian racing driver.

Contents

Sampson had a long career throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Sampson was a mainstay of the Australian Motor Industries-Toyota Team at the Bathurst 500 from 1965 to 1970, winning Class A in 1969 in a Toyota Corolla.

Well noted as a collector and racer of Cheetah racing cars, he is best remembered as Peter Brock's co-driver to win the 1975 Bathurst 1000. He also won the 1977 Rothmans 500 co-driving with Warren Cullen.

Sampson died on 17 November 2023, at the age of 88. [1]

Career results

SeasonSeriesPositionCarEntrant
1984 Australian Super Series 2nd Mitsubishi Starion Melbourne Clutch & Brake Service Pty Ltd

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeamCar1234567891011DCPoints
1987 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Everlast Automotive Services Holden VL Commodore SS Group A MNZ JAR DIJ NUR SPA BNO SIL BAT
14
CLD WEL FJI NC0

Complete Phillip Island/Bathurst 500/1000 results

YearTeamCo-driversCarClassLapsPos.Class
pos.
1961 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Monash Service Station Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jim Gullan
Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Connolly
Renault Gordini D1579th1st
1962 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rex Emmett Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rex Emmett
Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Connolly
Renault Gordini C1626th1st
1965 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australian Motor Industries Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lew Marshall Toyota Corona B11623rd4th
1966 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australian Motor Industries Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ern Abbott Toyota Corona B11627th7th
1967 Flag of Australia (converted).svg AMI Toyota Flag of Australia (converted).svg Barry Ferguson Toyota Corolla B117DSQDSQ
1968 Flag of Australia (converted).svg AMI Racing Team Flag of Australia (converted).svg Barry Ferguson Toyota Corolla A11330th2nd
1969 Flag of Australia (converted).svg AMI Toyota Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bob Morris Toyota Corolla A11229th1st
1970 Flag of Australia (converted).svg AMI Racing Team Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dick Thurston Toyota Corolla A11327th4th
1971 Flag of Australia (converted).svg AMI Racing Team Toyota Corolla 1200 A102DNFDNF
1974 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Holden Dealer Team Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Brock Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 3001 – 6000cc118DNFDNF
1975 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Gown - Hindhaugh Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Brock Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34 D1631st1st
1977 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Pioneer Electronics Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warren Cullen Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback 3001cc – 6000cc39DNFDNF
1979 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Re-Car Racing Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Browne Holden LX Torana SS A9X 4-Door A13317th10th
1980 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Re-Car Consolidated Industries Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Browne Holden Commodore (VC) 3001-6000cc1584th4th
1982 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Everlast Battery Service Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill O'Brien Ford Falcon (XD) A13420th13th
1983 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Everlast Battery Service Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill O'Brien Ford Falcon (XD) A13619th17th
1985 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Clutch & Brake Service Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garry Waldon Mitsubishi Starion Turbo B117DNFDNF
1987 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Everlast Automotive Services Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill O'Brien Holden VL Commodore SS Group A 114614th9th
1988 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Everlast Battery Service Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill O'Brien
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ray Lintott
Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV A66DNF
(DND)
DNF
(DND)
1990 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Everlast Battery Service Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill O'Brien Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV 11538th8th

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Supercars Championship</span> Touring car racing category in Australasia

The Supercars Championship is a touring car racing category in Australia and New Zealand, running as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) regulations, governing the sport.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Brock</span> Australian racing driver (1945–2006)

Peter Geoffrey Brock, known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship three times, the Bathurst 24 Hour once and was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2001. Brock's business activities included the Holden Dealer Team (HDT) that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ryan Briscoe</span> Australian racecar driver

Ryan John Briscoe is an Australian-American professional racing driver from Sydney who has predominantly raced open-wheel and sports cars in Europe and America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Skaife</span> Australian racing driver (born 1967)

Mark SkaifeOAM is an Australian former racing driver. Skaife is a five-time champion of the V8 Supercar Championship Series, including its predecessor, the Australian Touring Car Championship, as well as a six-time Bathurst 1000 winner. On 29 October 2008, he announced his retirement from full-time touring car racing. Since retiring from driving, Skaife has worked as a commentator and presenter for the series for both the Seven Network and Fox Sports Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Bargwanna</span> Australian motor racing driver

Jason Eric Bargwanna is an Australian motor racing driver. Best known as a Supercars Championship competitor, Bargwanna raced in the series for 25 years, the pinnacle of which was winning, with Garth Tander, the 2000 Bathurst 1000 in a Garry Rogers Motorsport prepared Holden Commodore. Bargwanna was the Driving Standards Observer for the Supercars Championship from 2014 until 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colin Bond</span> Australian racing driver (born 1942)

Colin John Bond is an Australian former racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team. He quickly found success, winning the 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 mile race at Bathurst, New South Wales in a Holden Monaro.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brad Jones (racing driver)</span> Australian racing driver (born 1960)

Bradley Jones also known as Brad is an Australian former racing driver. Jones now acts as team co-principal with his brother Kim in the V8 Supercar racing team, Brad Jones Racing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Win Percy</span> British racing driver (born 1943)

Winston Walter Frederick Percy is a former motor racing driver from England. Percy was British Touring Car Champion three times, and at the time of his retirement was the most successful non-Antipodean driver ever to compete in Australia's premier national motorsport event, the Bathurst 1000km. Joe Saward of Autosport magazine said he was "often regarded as the World's Number One Touring Car Driver".

Anthony Lawrence Longhurst is an Australian racing driver and former Australian Champion water skier. He is most noted for his career in the Australian Touring Car Championship and V8 Supercar series. Longhurst is a two-time winner of the Bathurst 1000, winning the event in 1988 with Tomas Mezera and in 2001 with Mark Skaife, and is one of only five drivers to win Bathurst in both a Ford and a Holden.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Allan Grice</span> Australian racing driver and politician (born 1942)

Allan Maxwell Grice, known to motor-racing fans as "Gricey", is an Australian former racing driver and politician, most famous for twice winning the prestigious Bathurst 1000, and as a privateer driver of a Holden in the Australian Touring Car Championship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shane van Gisbergen</span> New Zealand racing driver (born 1989)

Shane Robert van Gisbergen is a New Zealand racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Trackhouse Racing as well as part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for a TBA team. He is known for his time racing in the Supercars Championship, last driving the No. 97 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 car for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He is a three-time Supercars Champion, winning driver's titles in 2016, 2021, and 2022. With a total of 80 wins and 46 pole positions, van Gisbergen is 4th on the all-time wins list in the Supercars Championship. He has won the Bathurst 1000 three times, in 2020, 2022, and 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fabian Coulthard</span> New Zealand racing driver

Fabian "Fabs" Coulthard is a British-born New Zealand professional race car driver, currently competing in the Repco Supercars Championship, who will drive as an endurance co-driver for Nick Percat with Walkinshaw Andretti United. Fabian is a second cousin of former Formula One driver David Coulthard.

David Besnard, is a retired professional racing driver.

Tomas Mezera is a naturalised Australian racing driver. Mezera won the 1988 Bathurst 1000, and for many years was a member of the Holden Racing Team as both a driver and team manager. Mezera's sporting career began as a downhill skier in his native Czechoslovakia, before he emigrated to Australia to be a ski instructor. Mezera retired from racing in 2004 but continues to hold roles in motorsport, most recently as a driving standards advisor to several domestic motor racing championships.

Robert Morris is an Australian former racing driver. Morris was one of the leading touring car drivers during the 1970s and continued racing until 1984. Morris won Australia's premier Touring car race, the Bathurst 1000 in 1976. He also won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1979. Morris was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richie Stanaway</span> Racing car driver

Richie Stanaway is a racing car driver from New Zealand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Holden (racing driver)</span> Australian racing driver (born 1932)

Robin John "Bob" Holden is an Australian racing driver. Holden raced small-engined touring cars throughout his career, racing Peugeots in the early 1960s, establishing a reputation for himself which saw him become a regular part of BMC Australia racing program for Minis which culminated with a victory in the 1966 Bathurst 500 co-driving with Rauno Aaltonen. Into the 1970s Holden moved on to race Ford Escorts in various guises, moving into Toyota Corollas in the 1980s, winning the 1.6-litre class at the Bathurst round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. In the mid-1990s Holden moved into BMW M3s and later a BMW 318i Super Touring car in which he raced his final Bathurst in 1998, at the time setting the record for most Bathurst appearances.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonathon Webb</span> Australian racing driver

Jonathon Webb is an Australian former professional racing driver and team owner of Team Sydney, who once co-drove alongside Fabian Coulthard in the No. 19 Holden ZB Commodore for the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

Spencer Martin is an Australian championship-winning racing driver. Martin's short career was highlighted by two Australian Drivers' Championship victories in 1966 and 1967, racing for Bob Jane Racing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2023 Supercars Championship</span> 2023 motor racing series

The 2023 Supercars Championship was a motor racing series for Supercars.

References

  1. Bisset, Mark (18 November 2023). "Vale 'Sambo' Brian Sampson June 17, 1935 – November 17 2023". Auto Action . Retrieved 18 November 2023.
Sporting positions
Preceded by Winner of the Bathurst 1000
1975
(with Peter Brock)
Succeeded by