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Robert Anderson (born October 16, 1970 in Leafield, England) is a British racing driver who drove in F1 Rejects Grand Prix 2 Championship and Rejects Touring Car Championship. He is not related to American driver Dave Anderson.

He is rather infamous for his tendency to throw "pointed" criticism to other drivers, especially the driver he replaced. Notably, in 1996 Argentine Grand Prix, he criticized Ligier drivers Reiko Megumi and Douglas Mann (the latter being Anderson's teammate at the Argentine GP) and called them muppets.

Career

After having a relatively successful karting career, Anderson drove in F3 and F3000, scoring 10 podiums and 4 wins during his F3000 tenure between 1994 and 1995 seasons (although these were mostly because of attrition).

Anderson was notorious for impeding future fellow F1RGP2C driver Massimiliano Patrese in the Portugese round of 1995 F3000 season. This later opened rivalry between the two.

F1RGP2C

When Anderson entered F1RGP2C, he was initally signed by DAMS. However, Niko Nurminen got the nod instead of Anderson, resulting in Anderson suing the team for breach of contract. However, he did get an actual chance in F1RGP2C with Ligier to replace the suspended Reiko Megumi in Argentine Grand Prix, only to score a worse result than her, resulting in a Reject of the Race in that grand prix, and a counter-criticism from Megumi.

Nonetheless, Anderson got a further chance when Pacific fired Artiom Zielenkovski for performance reasons. Bringing back former Pacific manager Keith Wiggins as Anderson's advisor, in Anderson's first race with Pacific team, in Canada, he retired from the race. He only finished once at Hungary, scoring a high 14th position. However, on the following Belgian round, he suffered a crash against Irishman Eadbhard O'Caiomhin, injuring Anderson and he missed the last races of the season. He evantually signed as DAMS' test driver for 1997, and together with Martin McFry, Robert was evantually signed by Gauthier (actually Tyrrell, as Anderson insisted) after Monaco when both of previous drivers, Lawrence Tucker and Samael Meerwick, were sacked. By this point, he was managed by Crash Rollock, and was backed by British American Tobacco.

RTCC

In RTCC, he drove for Team Wales, who ran a Honda Accord for the race. His teammate was Hywel Jones (not related to Sammy), a former driver from Team Wales in 1994 Microprose Alternate Formula One season. The series was however short-lived as owner Hermann Mann was arrested just after round two, and when it was revived in 2015, he decided against returning. Between and after that, nothing was heard of him, except for a brief stint in the Prost GP series, until he told Rosco Vantini to tell Vantini's comment against female drivers to then team-suspended Shinobu Katayama after the 2015 F1RWRS Australian Grand Prix.^[1]

Results

References

1. ↑ Tell that to Katayama, Rosco!!