John Bishop passes

IMSA founder John Bishop passed away yesterday (Thursday 6/5).

sad news

IMSA | TUDOR United SportsCar Championship | IMSA Co-Founder John Bishop Passes Away At Age Of 87

 

this is a true loss. the real visionary for professional sports car racing in this country.

wow...I guess I figured he would always be around to rescue sports car racing in this country whenever it was needed.

a real loss.

r.i.p. john

 

Too bad. He really shaped racing in this country, in a good way. I was a BIG IMSA fan in those days. I rarely missed a race at Daytona, Sebring or Road Atlanta, and it was because of the way he developed the series so beautifully.

 

huge loss, at a time when the sport needs some guidance, at least in spirit...

 

so true. france jr. said he was glad john was alive to see the unification of imsa and grand am.

I would suggest that it would have been better if he would rest in peace without having seen it. at any rate I will always long for and remember the bishop days when imsa was really, really special. I will always remember john leaving only to return again...how exciting that was.


I will always have an imsa sticker on the rear window of my Porsche 930...it is just so appropriate. again...sad day for road racers.

 

you'd be surprised how many 930's I see with IMSA stickers
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respect!

 

Oh, the good old days...

Miss IMSA!

CW

 

His sale to Andy Evans was the beginning of the end.

Godspeed.

 

It was a magic time, to watch a 333SP go by full throttle on the other side of a cyclone fence

 

IMSA changed hands twice between Bishop and Evans, but otherwise yes...Evans was the beginning of the end until Don Panoz came along.

 

John Bishop's passing is huge loss to American sports car racing.

And, were it not for Andy Evans, there would not have been an ALMS.

BHW

 

I was quite fortunate to know John Bishop and race in IMSA during the early days. I distinctly recall several races at Daytona where John made it a point of walking around the paddock during every practice session to spend time chatting with and getting to personally know every single driver in the field. We all had an affection for John and his family. John was one of a kind in the racing world.

 

A huge loss. Unknowingly I wore an IMSA shirt to work today.

 

a fitting tribute!

 

Thanks Pete!

My sports car proudly wears an IMSA sticker as well on the hatch window

 

you sir are a credit to our sport! this has been a sad weekend to me. feel a bit hollow.

pcb

 

what a cruel irony that the weekend John Bishop passes, the only IMSA action is a Spec pro-am class paired with a feeder series in a race with no TV or internet coverage.

kinda sums up where we are as a sport right now.