Skip
Barber

Skip Barber, whose full name is John Barber III, was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He began racing in 1958 while studying at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s he won three consecutive SCCA national championships, and in 1967 he finished third in the United States Road Racing Championship. He then won the Formula Ford National Championship in both 1969 and 1970.

Barber drove a March in Formula One in 1971 and 1972. In 1971 he was entered for four races, namely Monaco, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada, and started three of them. In 1972 he started the races in the United States and Canada. In total he made five World Championship starts. After that he raced GT cars.

Once his driving career was over, Barber founded a driving school in 1975, which was known from 1976 as the Skip Barber Racing School. That same year he created the Skip Barber Race Series. He was inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame in 2013 and into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2025.

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