Robert "Bob" Stockton

RIP Bob. You made endurance racing easy. Someday again my friend.

We at Western will forever remember our bold hard working and friendly Director Bob Stockton. RIP.
Director Lopez

I worked for Bob first in the Carlsbad office of Rick Engineering then the San Marcos office. We moved to the Riverside area in 1987 to help Bob open the Riverside REC office. I too knew him in the BAD racing days. I will never forget the time we went to one of his races in Las Vegas. We saw him at the start line and he drew a map in the dirt of where their pit crew was parked. After several wrong turns including one where we actually got flagged onto the race course (unbeknownst to...

I was hired by Bob right out of college and worked with him in the Carlsbad office. We would rival between CalPoly Pomona and SLO. I moved with to help open and help grow the Riverside office. Bob was a great boss, friend and role model. He, Dennis and I would water ski on Lake Paris in the morning before coming into the office. At that time he was working on his waterskiing skills, I am sure he got better. In fact, it looks like he mastered the wake surfing.
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Bob was a friend, colleague, mentor and inspiration to me and will be truly missed by me and all who had the opportunity to know him well. He was a super competitive person that would try anything and he wore the scars to prove it. Twenty five years ago his staff got Bob a crash helmet that we encouraged him to wear all of the time because he had so many wild stories of how he would injury himself doing a variety of activities on the weekends fueled by an overdeveloped adrenaline gland. We...

Bob has been a mentor and has been someone to look up to throughout my career over the last 17 years. I will look to ensure that his legacy lives on by emulating the traits that I most admired in Bob. His confidence in his work, his kind treatment of all he worked with, his ability to persuasive without being overbearing, and his eternal optimism and positive outlook of his acquaintances, coworker, family, and life. I will miss you Bob.

Bob Stockton is a soul that is irreplaceable.He blessed so many lives as friend, coach, and mentor. He blessed our community: A dynamo of energy and total commitment. I send love to beautiful Kelli, and deepest sympathy to all the family.

Gentle, kind, compassionate, dedicated, supportive, goofy, dad. There are so many stories that I could share that would help illuminate the incredible person that my dad is/was but every time I try, words fail to express the magnitude. I am so grateful that I had the honor and privilege of sharing life with him.

He will always be an angel and my hero. Dad, I love you so much. My appreciation and respect for you is infinite and true.

Knowing my dad, he would want his...