Bob Ives
| Bob Ives | |
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| Born | March 1960 Great Britain, Hampshire |
| 💼 Occupation | Remote Off Road Vehicle Specialist, Ex Off Road Racer |
| 🌐 Website | Wild Trackers |
Bob Ives (born March 1960) is a British off-road racing driver who shares a unique place in British motorsport with his brother Joe Ives – the only Britons to have won the coveted Camel Trophy and the only brothers to have been awarded the prestigious Segrave Trophy.
Biography[edit]
Ives grew up on his family's dairy farm in Hampshire in which he spent his early years working as a farmer and started racing. He married Fiona in 1988. They have one son Dan Ives who was born in 1992.
Ives made two year-long trips around Australia, one in 1979 in an old Land Cruiser with a 45 US gallons (170 l; 37 imp gal) drum of petrol in the back & again in 1982 on a Suzuki DR 400.[clarification needed] Once back in the UK, Ives started[clarification needed] the UK trials with the All Wheel Drive Club in Land Rovers and Range Rovers.
In 1985 Ives took part in trials for the International Camel Trophy event making the final four. He reached final selections in successive years until becoming one half of the UK team in 1989 along with his brother Joe Ives.[1] They became the only UK team ever to win this four-wheel drive event,[2] taking nearly 3 weeks to cover 1000 miles in the Amazon rainforest, and were awarded the 1989 Segrave Trophy for outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by a British National.[3]
Ives went on to help organise further Camel Trophy events in Siberia (1990) Tanzania/Burundi (1991), Guyana (1992), Argentina/ Paraguay/ Chile (1994), Belize/ Mexico /Guatemala /El Salvador /Honduras (1995) and Kalimantan (1996).
Ives moved on to take part in International Rally raid events. In a heavily modified 300 hp Land Rover Defender, he took part in the 1997 Baja Espania (retired with electrical problems)[clarification needed] & the 1998 UAE Desert Challenge, starting the last day in fourth place, but breaking a universal joint in the front prop shaft meant a 24th-place finish with the vehicle in 2WD.
Along with other ex-Camel Cup competitors, Ives led 'off road' incentive trips for self-drive groups and off road vehicle launches for Land Rover, Jeep and Mercedes in remote parts of many countries. He has also done filming work with the two Barbour All Terrain Tracking (BATT) vehicles on Sleepy Hollow & Harry Potter movies and various TV shows.
As well as these continuing events, Ives has been involved with Top Gear 'Christmas Specials' from 2009 to 2014.[4] GPS logging the routes during recces, then driving the lead camera tracking car during the 2 or 3 weeks of filming whilst being responsible for car maintenance along with another Camel Trophy veteran Karl Trunk.
After Bolivia/ Chile in 2009, the following 'Specials' have been in the Middle East, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine (2010), India (2011), Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania (2012), Burma, Thailand (2013), Argentina and Chile (2014).[clarification needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Camel Trophy". Motor Sport Magazine. March 1990. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ↑ "Welcome to Land Rover's torture chamber". Top Gear. BBC. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ↑ "The Segrave Trophy". Royal Automobile Club. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ↑ * Top Gear (TV Series) Vehicle technician - 5 episodes, 2011 - 2014 [self-published source]
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