LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The legendary
World Driving Champion Bob Bondurant
who since 1968 has taught the top American race car champions and
Hollywood's biggest stars
including Christian Bale (FORD vs
FERRARI), Clint Eastwood,
Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Adam
Corolla, Jimmy Kimmel,
Tommy Lee Jones and many more
announced today that "Contrary to numerous false media reports, the
iconic Bob Bondurant School of
High Performance Driving (dba Bondurant Racing School) is
NOT GONE."
Famed American race car driver and racing school owner
Bob Bondurant is deeply involved in
the direction of his renowned school with his wife and co-owner
Pat Bondurant. Today they share that
they are working to secure new investment partners to be a part of
the unmatched history and credibility of the Bondurant brand and
copyrighted teaching methodology, with new plans to relaunch the
world's #1 racing school in a new location. Bob Bondurant was one of a handful of Americans
to compete in the Formula 1 Grand Prix series, as well as raced and
won at Le Mans, bringing home the World Championship trophy to
America. He was the most winning driver on Carroll Shelby's team, racing the famed Cobras
and GT40. Bondurant also raced in Can-Am, Sports cars and NASCAR,
before devoting time to his racing and his high performance driving
school. Bob Bondurant has trained
the greatest champions in racing as well as icons in the motion
picture industry since the school was founded 1968.
There is a high level of global interest from qualified parties
to negotiate for the #1 racing school in the world to select their
new location. To that end, the Bondurants are soliciting qualified
parties to contact them for additional details.
The announcement is made in the wake of the school's sudden
selling, after an attempted, but failed hostile takeover that
happened on November 12th,
2018. This coup forced the Bondurants into selling their school
assets, not the Bondurant name, on March
22nd, 2019. Bondurant has conducted business at
the Wildhorse Pass Motorsports park, proudly located on the Gila
River Indian Community since 1989, and has graduated over 500,000
students.
Since 2019, the Bondurants have been in litigation with the
current operator at the school location, Stig Investments, LLC,
(dba The Bondurant School of High Performance Driving) over Stig's
use of the Bondurant name and brand. Earlier this year the
Bondurants and Stig reached an agreement resolving the litigation
over the name, which clarified that the Bondurants own the
Bondurant name and brand, and that they are free to license the
Bondurant name and brand to a new partner at their discretion and
that Stig would be transitioning to a different name. To that end,
Stig recently issued press releases stating that they have changed
their name to the Radford Racing School.
The legendary World Driving Champion Bob
Bondurant has never shied away from a challenge on or
off the track. Bob Bondurant
is a member of 10 Racing Hall of Fames and founded the famous
driving school in 1968, teaching with his copyrighted Bondurant
Method. The Bondurant Method is known worldwide as the #1 training
methodology for professional drivers, movie stars, military and law
enforcement.
Pat Bondurant stated, "The
current operators of the former Bondurant location, have never
owned the Bondurant name, and will never be Bondurant, despite the
incomprehensible attempt into misleading the public otherwise.
However, we genuinely wish them success in their endeavors as Bob
and I believe anyone encouraging the racing industry to grow, will
undoubtedly assist the automotive industry as a whole. Bob and I
are happy to move to the next chapter of our story. It's
important that our new partners reflect the high quality of
training Bob demanded for himself and his team."
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