Bobby Swift is a secondary character in 2017 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Cars 3. Along with Cal Weathers, and Brick Yardley, he became close friends with Lightning McQueen. He races for Octane Gain and is number 19. However, he is later fired for an unknown reason and replaced by Danny Swervez midseason.
Background[]
Official Description[]
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.
Physical description[]
Bobby Swift is a Brawny Motor Co. Spark EA stock race car with Lightyear racing tires. His eyes are purple. 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 stickers imitating lamps and seven stickers of sponsors behind the wheels. He has dark grey rims with a yellow outer lip/border.
Personality[]
Bobby is described as a cool and crafty racer, he is also smart when he races and he is nice and good-hearted with his fellow friends.
After Jackson Storm's comming serious for the races.
Achievements[]
- 2nd place in Motor Speedway of the South at the Dinoco Light 350.
- 3rd place in Rocker Arms International Speedway, Georgia Super Speedway and Copper Canyon Speedway at some events
- 19th place in Georgia Super Speedway at the Dinoco 400.
- 33rd place in Heartland Motor Speedway
Appearences[]
Cars 3[]
Bobby competes in the 2016 Piston Cup season along his rivarly fellow friends Lightning McQueen, Cal Weathers, and Brick Yardley. Early in that season, 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 in Cal's lost in race while he was having an interview with Racing Sports Network reporter, Shannon Spokes.
After that joke, Cal wins in the other race, he with Lightning and Guido inflate the wheels and put McQueen balloons on it on revenge.
In the mid-season when a new racer 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.After Cal's retirament and before the Los Angeles 500, the final race, Bobby was theoretically fired by Octane Gain's owner and was replaced by a new Next-Gen Racer called Danny Swervez. Bobby does not appear again in the film.
Video games[]
Cars 3: Driven to Win[]
Bobby Swift is an unlockable playable character.
Cars: Lightning League[]
in Cars: Lightning League. He is an unplayable character along with Cal Weathers and Brick Yardley.
Trivia[]
- Bobby Swift's competition number, 19, might be a reference to the 1995 Pixar animated film Toy Story as, together with Lightning McQueen's number, 95, to whom he stayed close during the races, it formed number 1995, the year of movie's release.
- While he had purple 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.
- Bobby Swift is a Brawny Motor Co. Spark EA stock race car with Lightyear racing tires.
- Competition number 19 was also used by: Kolya Ivanov and Danny Swervez.
- Other racing cars that where sponsored by Octane Gain were: Billy Oilchanger, Henderson and Danny Swervez.
- While Bobby Swift and Daniel Swervez used number 19 in Cars 3, the Octane Gain racer in Cars, Billy Oilchanger, used the number 58.
- His paint job bears a striking resemblance to Lee Revkins from Cars.