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Robert Paul Hawkins (12 October 1937 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 26 May 1969 at Oulton Park, Cheshire, England) was an Australian motor racing driver. The son of a racing motorcyclist-turned-church minister, Hawkins was a capable single-seater driver but really made his mark as an outstanding sports car competitor driving Ford GT40s and Lola T70s. In 1969 Hawkins was included in the FIA list of graded drivers, an elite group of 27 drivers who by their achievements were rated the best in the world.〔''F.I.A. Year Book of Automobile Sport'', P.S.L. Publications Limited., London, 1969.〕 Hawkins was hugely popular and known as ''Hawkeye''; the son of a gentleman of the cloth he was a colourful character with a wide colourful vocabulary.〔Peter Swinger, “Motor Racing Circuits in England : Then & Now" (Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 0 7110 3104 5, 2008)〕 He was also famous for being one of two racers to crash into the harbour at the Monaco Grand Prix. ==Early racing career== Hawkins began racing in Australia with an Austin-Healey in 1958. He left Australia and arrived in England in 1960.〔Castrol advertisement, ''Motor Sport'', October 1967, Page 893.〕 He found employment with the Donald Healey Motor Company Ltd.,〔''Motor Sport'', July 1960, Page 554.〕 under John Sprinzel:
Hawkins was soon behind the wheel of an Austin-Healey Sprite, racing at the Aintree 200 meeting on 30 April 1960, and winning his class in the GT race.〔''The Times'', 2 May 1960.〕 He then finished 38th at the 1960 Nürburgring 1000 km race, with co-driver Cyril Simson, known as Team 221, on a "miserable foggy day in May".〔D.S.J., ''Motor Sport'', July 1960, Pages 534-535.〕 In 1961 at Le Mans Hawkins teamed with John Colgate in an Austin-Healey Sprite, but they retired in the eighth hour with engine problems.〔''Automobile Year, No. 9, 1961-1962'', Edita S.A., Lausanne, Page 185.〕 On Whit Monday, 1962, at Crystal Palace Hawkins drove Ian Walker's Lotus-Ford to victory in the up to 1,150 c.c. sports car race, setting lap and race records.〔''Motor Sport'', July 1962, Page 498.〕 At Le Mans in 1965 Hawkins, with John Rhodes, finished twelfth overall, and first in class, in a 1.3-litre Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite entered by the Donald Healey Motor Company, completing 278 laps.〔''Motor Sport'', July 1965, Page 565.〕 Hawkins also drove single-seaters, participating in the first race run to the new Formula Two regulations at Pau on 5 April 1964, finishing seventh in a pushrod Alexis.〔''Motor Sport'', May 1964, Pages 353-354. See also cover picture.〕 He was entered in a Team Alexis Alexis-Cosworth at Silverstone on 20 March 1965 but the race was abandoned due to heavy rain.〔''Motor Sport'', April 1965, Page 260.〕 He went on to win the Formula Two Eifelrennen race on the Nürburgring south circuit, in bad weather, in an Alexis-Cosworth Mk. 7 on 25 April 1965.〔''Motor Sport'', June 1965, Page 463.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Hawkins (racing driver)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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