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14 august 1967 northampton , england , uk hendon , london , england , uk gbr british 19 may 1931 bob anderson -lrb- racing driver -rrb- . jpg bob anderson -lrb- racing driver -rrb-
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bob anderson -lrb- racing driver -rrb-

robert hugh fearon `` bob '' anderson -lrb- 19 may 1931 , hendon , london -- 14 august 1967 , northampton -rrb- was a grand prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver from england .
he competed in grand prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1960 and in formula one from 1963 to the 1967 seasons .
he was also a two-time winner of the north west 200 race in northern ireland .
after several seasons in motorcycle racing in which he finished in the top ten on several occasions , he switched to car racing in 1961 , when he ran a formula junior lola in a race at snetterton .
he continued to race cars and eventually became a team lotus formula junior driver , winning a race at autodrome de montlhéry and finishing second at monaco .
he entered formula one in 1963 with his own lola mk4 car , under the guise of `` dw racing enterprises '' , a small team compared to other private outfits such as scuderia filipinetti or rob walker racing team .
dw was actually only composed of bob and a small team of mechanics .
despite this hindrance he took the flexible little lola to victory in the non-championship rome grand prix in that first year .
in later years he ran private brabham cars under the same banner , with his best result a third place in the 1964 austrian grand prix .
he was awarded the von trips memorial trophy as the most successful private entrant of 1964 .
in 1967 he suffered an accident while testing at silverstone , in which he slid off the track in wet conditions and hit a marshal 's post .
anderson suffered serious chest and neck injuries and died later in northampton general hospital .
