Patrick Barron "Paddy" Hopkirk (born 14 April 1933, Belfast) is a former rally driver from Northern Ireland. Alongside Henry Liddon he won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S car number 37, license plate/registration tag 33 EJB. They are the most recent all-British crew to have won the event. Hopkirk also traveled to Australia during his career to drive for the BMC Works Team in the annual Bathurst 500 race for standard production cars at the Mount Panorama Circuit.

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  • Patrick Barron "Paddy" Hopkirk (born 14 April 1933, Belfast) is a former rally driver from Northern Ireland. Alongside Henry Liddon he won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S car number 37, license plate/registration tag 33 EJB. They are the most recent all-British crew to have won the event. Hopkirk also traveled to Australia during his career to drive for the BMC Works Team in the annual Bathurst 500 race for standard production cars at the Mount Panorama Circuit. He drove at Bathurst in a Morris Cooper S from 1965-1967, obtaining a best result of 6th outright and 3rd in class in the 1965 Armstrong 500 when paired with another great rally driver, Timo Makinen of Finland. He was elected as a life member of the British Racing Drivers' Club in 1967, and is also president of the Historic Rally Car Register, and a patron of disability charity WheelPower. Paddy Hopkirk is also a brand of automotive accessories (for example, roof bars) named after Hopkirk.
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  • Patrick Barron "Paddy" Hopkirk (born 14 April 1933, Belfast) is a former rally driver from Northern Ireland. Alongside Henry Liddon he won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S car number 37, license plate/registration tag 33 EJB. They are the most recent all-British crew to have won the event. Hopkirk also traveled to Australia during his career to drive for the BMC Works Team in the annual Bathurst 500 race for standard production cars at the Mount Panorama Circuit.
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