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Bernard Rubin Nationality British ( Australian)
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 1928-1929
Teams Bentley Motors
Best finish 1st (1928)
Class wins 1 (1928)
Bernard Rubin (6 December 1896 - 27 June 1936) was a British racing driver and pilot who was a member of the "Bentley Boys" team at the Bentley Motor Company and winner of the 1928 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Personal life
The son of Australian pearl salesman Mark Rubin (1867 - 1919), Bernard was born in Carlton, Victoria, before he eventually moved to London with his family in 1908. His mother was the former Rebecca de Vahl Davis, who came from a notable Jewish Melbourne family. He had a brother, well-known grazier, art collector and philanthropist Harold de Vahl Rubin (1899-1964). His uncle, wealthy entrepreneur Abraham de Vahl Davis (1864 - 1912), went down with the steamship SS Koombana after having purchased the legendary - and presumably cursed - Roseate Pearl. On 29 March 1935, in Paris, Rubin married Audrey Mary Simpson, daughter of Charles Ringham Simpson.
Rubin served in the Royal Garrison Artillery in World War I where he was badly injured and required three years of treatment before he could walk again. Following his father's death in 1919, Rubin began purchasing properties in the Northern Territory, before his interest in auto racing developed in 1928.
