- "Haha, well, you better not blink, I'll blow right past you!"
- —Bobby Swift to Lightning McQueen, Cars 3
Bobby Swift is a professional race car and a friend of Lightning McQueen, Brick Yardley and Cal Weathers. He raced for the Octane Gain team in the Piston Cup Racing Series for several years, after replacing Billy Oilchanger, before he was replaced by a Next-Gen named Danny Swervez before the last race of the 2016 season.
History[]
Cars 3[]
Bobby Swift, Lightning McQueen and Cal Weathers during the Dinoco 400 race at the Copper Canyon Speedway in 2016.
In Cars 3, Bobby competes in the 2016 Piston Cup season along the likes of Lightning McQueen, Cal Weathers, and Brick Yardley. Early in the 2016 season of the Piston Cup, after McQueen's victory in Dinoco Light 350 at the Motor Speedway of the South, Swift and his crew pranked him in extinguishing foam and confetti while he was having an interview with Racing Sports Network reporter, Shannon Spokes. In the mid-season when Jackson Storm won at the Copper Canyon Speedway, he, Lightning and Cal were surprised by his speed. When Lightning asks who he was, Bobby responded saying that was Jackson Storm who is one of the rookies. Interest and popularity in the Next-Generation race cars rose since they had better achievements on the track racing. For the rest of the season, more and more stock cars were replaced with high-tech rookies and Bobby was unable to keep up. Before the Los Angeles 500, the final race of the 2016 Piston Cup Series, Bobby was seemingly fired by Octane Gain's owner and was replaced by Danny Swervez. Bobby does not appear again in the film.
Cars 3: Driven to Win[]
Bobby Swift in the Cars 3: Driven to Win video game.
Bobby Swift is an unlockable playable character in Cars 3: Driven to Win video game. Like most of the playable characters, he is unlocked by completing skill checks.
Cars: Lightning League[]
Bobby appears in the mobile game Cars: Lightning League. He is an unplayable character along with Cal Weathers and Brick Yardley.
Physical description[]
Front and back of Bobby Swift.
Bobby Swift is a Brawny Motor Co. Spark EA stock race car with Lightyear racing tires. His eyes are blue. He has a purple livery with two orange polygons, having four skewers directed forward and two facing back with one reaching the rear bumper. Around his windows, he has an orange arched shape. He has the Octane Gain logo on his hood, rear fender, back, and his boot. He has the white racing number 19, with a black border on his roof, the middle of his sides, and his bumper. Above his front windows and on his front fenders, he has the Lightyear logo. He has working headlights, taillights and seven stickers of sponsors behind the wheels. He has dark grey rims with a yellow outer lip/border.
Achievements[]
| Race track | Event | Finished position |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Speedway of the South | Dinoco Light 350 | 2nd |
| Heartland Motor Speedway | Rocker Arms International: Iowa Hybrid 450 | 3rd |
| Georgia Super Speedway | Georgia Safety Horn 350 | 3rd |
| Copper Canyon Speedway | Dinoco 400 | 3rd |
| Georgia Super Speedway | Mood Springs Sputter Stop 350 | 19th |
| Rustbelt Raceway | Frostar Air Filters 400 | 7th |
| Heartland Motor Speedway | Bumper Save Gears and Glory 450 | 33rd |
Bio[]
Meet the Cars[]
- Bobby Swift is known for squeezing past his opponents at the last moment to win a race. He's always wheel to wheel with Lightning McQueen and Brick Yardley. Bobby, Lightning, and Brick are always sparring with one another at the front of the pack, but no matter the outcome, they remain good buddies.
Cars 3: Driven to Win[]
- Often seen squeezing past his opponents at the last moment of a race, Octane Gain's #19 is known for going wheel-to-wheel with Lightning McQueen.
Appearances[]
Feature films[]
Video games[]
Books[]
Comics[]
Gallery[]
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Names in other languages[]
- Danish: Bobby Kvik
- Dutch: Bobby Fluks
- Estonian: Robi Tuisuga
- Finnish: Ville Vinha
- Latvian: Bobiju Ašo
- Lithuanian:
- Bobis Greičius
- Bobisu Greičiumi
- Norwegian: Bobby Rask
- Polish: Bobby Świst
- Romanian: Bobby Iute
- Russian:
- Бобби Свифт (transcription: Bobbi Svift)
- Бобби Вжик (transcription: Bobbi Vzhik)
- Swedish: Bobby Kvick
- Ukrainian:
- Боббі Свіфт (transcription: Bobbi Svift)
- Боббі Шнир (transcription: Bobbi Shnyr)
Trivia[]
- While he had blue eyes in Cars 3, his artwork in the Meet the Cars book presented him with brown eyes and his 1:55 scale diecast toy model with green.
- While Bobby Swift and Danny Swervez used number 19 in Cars 3, the Octane Gain racer in Cars, Billy Oilchanger, used the number 58.
- His number 19 is one less than the number 20 of his main rival, Jackson Storm, who replaces him in the film, and is likely a reference to him being the greatest rival of the era before Jackson Storm.
Quotes[]
- "Good comeback, Cal!" - Cars 3
- "Congratulations, cupcake!" - Cars 3
- "That's, uh… Jackson Storm." - Cars 3
- "My name's not Swift for nothin'!" - Cars 3: Driven to Win
- "Pulled that off without a hitch!" - Cars 3: Driven to Win
- "Gonna save this for just the right moment." - Cars 3: Driven to Win
- "Not out yet!" - Cars 3: Driven to Win
- "Name’s Bobby Swift. Think that says it all." -Cars 3: Driven to Win
- "Time to get racing! Come on!" - Cars 3: Driven to Win