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Bob Ives, born in March 1960 grew up on his family dairy farm in Hampshire in which he spent his early years working as a farmer. Shortly afterwards Bob Ives started his legacy as an off road racer. He later got married to his wife Fiona in 1988. They have one son Dan Ives who was born in 1992. Bob Ives shares a unique place in British motorsport along with 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 == A couple of year-long trips around Australia, one in 1979 in an old Land Cruiser with a 45 gal drum of petrol in the back & again in 1982 on a Suzuki DR 400. Once back in the UK, Bob Ives started the UK trials with the All Wheel Drive Club in Land Rovers and Range Rovers. In 1985 Bob Ives took part in trials for the International Camel Trophy event making the final four (along with later collaborator Duncan Barbour). Getting to final selections every year until finally making one half of the UK team in 1989 along with brother Joe Ives. After nearly 3 weeks and 1000 miles, the Ives brothers became the only UK team ever to win this gruelling 4x4 event which ran from 1980 until 2000. Please refer to the Camel Trophy page for more information. Subsequently, the brothers were awarded the prestigious Segrave Trophy. Only permitted to participate once, Bob Ives went on to help with further Camel Trophy events in Siberia (1990 with Andy Dacey in the team) Tanzania/Burundi (1991 with Duncan Barbour now on CT management), Guyana (1992), Argentina/ Paraguay/ Chile (1994), Belize/ Mexico /Guatemala /El Salvador /Honduras (1995) and Kalimantan (1996). Although asked to help further, Bob Ives made the decision 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 (electrical problems) & the 1998 UAE Desert Challenge, starting the last day in fourth place, but sadly breaking an UJ in the front prop shaft, meant a 24th-place finish in 2WD. Along with Duncan, Andy Dacey & other ex - Camels, the following years were filled with many 'off road' incentive trips for self-drive groups and off road vehicle launches for Land Rover, Jeep and Mercedes in remote parts of the following countries: Jordan, USA, Turkey, UAE, Oman, Canada, Zambia, Botswana, Romania, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Thailand and Morocco. Bob Ives 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, Bob Ives has been involved with all the Top Gear 'Christmas Specials' since 2009. 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). 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「Bob Ives (racing driver)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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