Teaching and track: Bob Bondurant. This year, the champion race car driver and founder of the world-famous Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving is celebrating twice. On Feb. 14, he, his wife Pat, employees of the school and well-wishers marked the forty-fifth anniversary of the school, proudly located on the Gila River Indian Community in Chandler. Two months after the school event, April 27, he celebrated his eightieth birthday at his Paradise Valley home. Bob brilliantly raced Corvettes in the mid-‘50s, winning the west coast SCCA B Production National Championship in 1959 with a stunning 18 of 20 wins. For Carroll Shelby, Bob participated in the 1965 World Manufacturers Championship, besting Ferrari — almost a half-century later still the only American team to achieve this. Says the octogenarian track legend: “Let’s race!”
