Rich Zober

Richard "Rich" Zober (born 22 February 1966) is a racing driver who competed in various formula racing series.

Racing career

Zober started auto racing in 1995 in the SCCA Formula Continental class. The American driver finished eighteenth in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. He made his debut in the USF2000 championship in 2000. He competed in four races at Road America and Watkins Glen International. He competed in the American Continental Class for older F2000 cars. Zober scored a total of 23 points which placed him ninth in the championship.^[1] He returned the following season for two races at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. This time he competed in a new Van Diemen in the National Championship class. During the first race Zober spun after which he retired.^[2] He managed to finish the second race as the last car running.^[3] The following year the American driver switched to the SCCA Formula Atlantic class driving a Swift 008.a. After two years in the amateur series he made his debut in the pro Atlantic Championship. Zober participated at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in the C2 class for older Formula Atlantic cars in a Swift 008.a. He finished twelfth overall, second in class. Comprent Motorsports entered Zober the following season in the Atlantics support races at the Grand Prix of Cleveland. Again in the C2 class he achieved his first top-ten finish finishing eighth in the first race. In 2008 and 2009 Zober drove for Polestar Racing Group in the championship class. His best finish was an eleventh place at Lime Rock Park in 2009. Zober drove his first full season in the Atlantic Championship in 2012. After the downfall of Champ Car the series was revived by SCCA Pro Racing for 2012. The driver from Newtown, Pennsylvania achieved four top-ten finishes and was placed eighth in the championship.

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

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American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete USF2000 National Championship results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Points
1999	Richard Zober	PIR	CHA1	CHA2	MOS	MOS	MDO	ATL	ROA1 18	ROA2 19	CTR	MDO	PPI	SEB1	SEB2	N.C.	N.C.
2000	Richard Zober	PIR	MOS1	MOS2	IRP1	ROA1 24	ROA1 30	TRR	MOS3	WGI1 16	WGI2 25	IRP2	ATL1	ATL1		N.C.	N.C.
2001	Richard Zober	HMS1	HMS2	HMS3	WGI1	WGI2	IRP	MDO1 24	MDO2 18	ROA1	ROA2	MDO3	SEB1	SEB2		26th	4
2005	Richard Zober	ROA1 21	ROA2 28	MDO1 DNS	MDO2 DNS	CLE1 21	CLE2 25	ROA3	ROA4	MDO3	MDO4	VIR1 12	VIR2 13			25th	21

Star Mazda Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2006	Comprent Motorsports	SEB	HOU	MDO	MIL	MON	MMP 23	POR	TRR	RAM 21	MOS	RAT 17	LAG	N.C.	N.C.
2007	Comprent Motorsports	SEB	HOU	VIR 14	MMP 14	POR	CLE 10	TOR	RAM 11	TRR	MOS	RAT 12	LAG	27th	119
2008	Comprent Motorsports	SEB	UTA 22	WGI 16	POR	POR	ROA 17	TRR	MOS	NJ1 22	NJ2 17	ATL	LAG	22nd	99

Atlantic Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Rank	Points
2004	Comprent Motorsports	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR1	POR2	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	DEN	MTL 12	LS				N.C.	0
2005	Comprent Motorsports	LBH	MTY	POR1	POR2	CLE1 8	CLE2 13	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	ROA	MTL				N.C.	0
2008	Polestar Racing Group	LBH	LS	MTT	EDM1	EDM2	ROA1	ROA2	TRR	NJ 17	UTA	ATL					27th	4
2009	Polestar Racing Group	SEB	UTA	NJ1 12	NJ2 12	LIM 11	ACC1	ACC2	MDO	TRR	MOS	ATL	LS				18th	7
2012	Comprent Motorsports	ATL1 DNF	ATL2 DNS	NJ1 9	NJ2 8	SUM1 7	SUM2 9										8th	99
2014	Comprent Motorsports	ATL1 8	ATL2 15	WGI1 9	WGI2 8	VIR1 6	VIR2 9	MDO1 9	MDO2 15	TOM1	TOM2						10th	160
2015	Comprent Motorsports	PBI	ATL 3	ATL 9	WGL 9	WGL 5	VIR 5	VIR 13	MDO DNS	MDO 6	PIT 4	PIT 7	NJMP 4	NJMP 11	PIT 5	PIT 6	7th	303

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