# Dominic Dobson

Dominic Dobson (born September 14, 1957) is a German-born former CART and Craftsman Truck Series driver who made 7 starts in the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of 12th in 1992, over 60 starts in the CART (Championship Auto Racing Series), with a best finish of 3rd at the Michigan 500 in 1994. Dobson also drove numerous IMSA and other Sport car races, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989 in Porsche 962 alongside Jean Alesi and Will Hoy and at Daytona and Sebring, where his best finish was a 2nd place in 1990, co-driving with Sarel van der Merwe and Klaus Ludwig.
Dobson was raised in, and currently resides in, Seattle.
In the early 1980s, he was an instructor at the Bob Bondurant Driving School, then based at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma. In the mid-1980s, he started Zephyr Racing with Ron Nelson, another Bondurant instructor. Zephyr originally had its shops in San Rafael, CA but moved to a new facility built at Sears Point Raceway in the spring of 1985. Zephyr rented out, maintained, and provided race support for a stable of formula and sportsracing cars. Cars were rented on a race-by-race or season long basis. Zephyr's customers competed in SCCA regional and National events as well as the American City racing League.
In the late 1990s he was involved in a short lived North American Touring Car Championship's Dodge Stratus factory team that ran in conjunction with CART race weekends. He also made 10 starts in the Craftsman Truck Series for Dodge in 1998 with a best start of 3rd in Nazareth, PA and a best finish of 17th at Texas Motor Speedway.
From 2000 to 2003, he presided over a multimillion-dollar collection of historic automobiles, primarily European post-war racecars and rare road cars called the Cavallino Collection. From 2007 to 2015, he was the Chief Development Officer for the LeMay - America's Car Museum, in Tacoma, WA.
In 2005, Dobson competed in the Baja 100 with co-driver Frank Everett in a Baja Challenge car and in 2015, Dobson won the "Unlimited" Class at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb and was awarded the coveted "Rookie of the Year" as a result. He continues to race occasionally in vintage car races in the US and abroad.
Dobson owns and operates Dobson Motorsport, LLC (www.dobsonmotorsport.com) a high-end Collector Car Brokerage and Management service and Gerber Motorsport (www.gerbermotorsport.com), a Porsche repair and restoration facility, both in Seattle. He also is co-founder and COO of VR Motion Corp in Hillsboro, OR, a company that builds products that power Virtual Reality experiences for the automotive market.

## Racing record
### American open–wheel racing results

(key)

#### PPG Indycar Series

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
| Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Rank | Points |
| 1985 | Leader Card Racing | March 84C | Ford Cosworth DFX | LBH | INDY | MIL | POR | MEA DNS | CLE Rpl$^1$ | MCH | ROA | POC | MDO | SAN | MCH | | | | | | 38th | 2 |
| 1985 | Leader Card Racing | March 85C | Ford Cosworth DFX | | | | | | | | | | | | | LAG 18 | PHX | MIA 11 | | | 38th | 2 |
| 1986 | Leader Card Racing | March 86C | Ford Cosworth DFX | PHX | LBH 12 | INDY | MIL | POR 19 | MEA 11 | CLE 18 | TOR 16 | MCH | POC | MDO 19 | SAN | MCH | ROA 18 | LAG 21 | PHX | MIA 13 | 31st | 3 |
| 1987 | Dobson Motorsports | March 86C | Ford Cosworth DFX | LBH | PHX | INDY DNQ | MIL | POR | MEA | CLE | TOR | MCH | POC | ROA | MDO | NAZ | LAG | MIA | | | NC | - |
| 1988 | Dale Coyne Racing | March 86C | Chevrolet V8 | PHX | LBH 26 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 43rd | 0 |
| 1988 | Dobson Motorsports | Lola T87/00 | Ford Cosworth DFX | | | INDY 18 | MIL | POR 21 | CLE | TOR | MEA | MCH | POC | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG 18 | MIA | | | 43rd | 0 |
| 1989 | Bayside Disposal Racing | Lola T88/00 | Ford Cosworth DFX | PHX 23 | LBH 19 | INDY 18 | MIL | DET 7 | POR 18 | CLE | MEA 17 | TOR 11 | MCH | POC | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG 11 | | | 19th | 10 |
| 1990 | Bayside Disposal Racing | Lola T90/00 | Ford Cosworth DFS | PHX 23 | LBH 15 | INDY 22 | MIL | DET 26 | POR 24 | CLE | MEA 8 | TOR 8 | MCH | DEN 25 | VAN 11 | MDO | ROA 19 | NAZ | LAG 20 | | 19th | 12 |
| 1991 | Burns Racing Team | Lola T89/00 | Judd AV | SRF | LBH | PHX | INDY 13 | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR | MCH | DEN | VAN | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | 35th | 0 |
| 1992 | Burns Racing Team | Lola T91/00 | Chevrolet 265A | SRF | PHX | LBH | INDY 12 | DET | POR | MIL | NHA | TOR | MCH | CLE | ROA | VAN | MDO | NAZ | LAG | | 35th | 1 |
| 1993 | Burns Motor Sports | Galmer G92B | Chevrolet 265A | SRF | PHX | LBH | INDY 23 | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | NHA | ROA | | | | | | 39th | 0 |
| 1993 | PacWest Racing | Galmer G92B | Chevrolet 265A | | | | | | | | | | | | | VAN 14 | MDO DNQ | NAZ | LAG 18 | | 39th | 0 |
| 1994 | PacWest Racing | Lola T94/00 | Ford XB | SRF 12 | PHX 24 | LBH 17 | INDY 29 | MIL 13 | DET 25 | POR 17 | CLE 25 | TOR 11 | MCH 3 | MDO 15 | NHA 6 | VAN 19 | ROA 11 | NAZ 19 | LAG 10 | | 18th | 30 |
| 1995 | PacWest Racing | Reynard 94I | Ford XB | MIA | SRF | PHX | LBH | NAZ | INDY Wth$^2$ | MIL | DET | POR | ROA | TOR | CLE | MCH | MDO | NHA | VAN | LAG | NC | - |
    $^1$ Replaced by Phil Krueger
    $^2$ Did not appear

#### Indianapolis 500

| Year | Chassis | Engine | Start | Finish | Team |
| 1987 | March 86C | Ford Cosworth DFX | DNQ | DNQ | Dobson Motorsports |
| 1988 | Lola T87/00 | Ford Cosworth DFX | 21 | 18 | Dobson Motorsports |
| 1989 | Lola T88/00 | Ford Cosworth DFX | 29 | 18 | Bayside Disposal Racing |
| 1990 | Lola T90/00 | Ford Cosworth DFS | 11 | 22 | Bayside Disposal Racing |
| 1991 | Lola T89/00 | Judd AV | 30 | 13 | Burns Racing Team |
| 1992 | Lola T91/00 | Chevrolet 265A | 29 | 12 | Burns Racing Team |
| 1993 | Galmer G92B | Chevrolet 265A | 27 | 23 | Burns Motor Sports |
| 1994 | Lola T94/00 | Ford XB | 12 | 29 | PacWest Racing |
| 1995 | Reynard 94I | Ford XB | Wth | Wth | PacWest Racing |

### Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
| 1989 | Team Schuppan | Will Hoy Jean Alesi | Porsche 962C | C1 | 69 | DNF | DNF |

### NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

#### Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results :
| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | NCTC | Pts | Ref |
| 1998 | PacWest S/T Motorsports | 78 | Dodge | WDW | HOM DNQ | PHO 19 | POR 29 | EVG 22 | I70 25 | GLN 34 | TEX 17 | BRI 35 | MLW 31 | NZH 33 | CAL | PPR | IRP | NHA | FLM | NSV | HPT 23 | LVL | RCH | MEM | GTY | MAR | SON | MMR | PHO | LVS | 35th | 842 | |