Pierre Meyrat

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The trophy that Pierre Meyrat received for third place in the 1951 Portuguese Grand Prix

Pierre Meyrat (born October 16, 1916 - October 13, 1969 ) was a French racing car driver .

Career

Pierre Meyrat was active as a monoposto and sports car racing driver in the 1940s and 1950s . He drove his first races in 1947 and 1948 on a Delahaye 135S . He achieved his best results in 1949 on a Talbot-Lago T26C . At the Grand Prix des Frontières in Chimay he was fourth and third at the Coupe du Salon in Montlhéry .

In the sports car, he finished seventh in the 1948 Paris 12-hour race and third in the 1951 Portuguese Grand Prix .

He celebrated his greatest successes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where he twice finished second in the overall standings. 1950 was Guy Mairesse his teammate. After a driving time of 24 hours or 255 laps, the two of their converted Talbot Lago Grand Prix cars were only missing one lap to their compatriots Louis and Jean-Louis Rosier , who also drove a Talbot. The following year Guy Maitresse was his teammate again. This time the second-placed duo was missing nine laps on the Jaguar XK 120 C of Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1950 FranceFrance Pierre Meyrat Talbot-Lago Monoplace Decalee FranceFrance Guy Mairesse Rank 2
1951 FranceFrance Pierre Meyrat Talbot-Lago T26GS FranceFrance Guy Mairesse Rank 2
1952 FranceFrance Pierre Meyrat Talbot-Lago T26GS FranceFrance Guy Mairesse failure Oil pump
1954 FranceFrance Jean-Louis Rosier Talbot-Lago T26GS FranceFrance Jean-Louis Rosier failure accident
1956 FranceFrance Pierre Meyrat Ferrari 500TR FranceFrance Fernand Tavano failure accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th
1954 Jean-Louis Rosier Talbot-Lago T26GS ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Pierre Meyrat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grand Prix des Frontières 1949
  2. ↑ Grand Prix du Salon 1949
  3. ↑ 12-hour race of Paris in 1948
  4. ↑ 1951 Portuguese Grand Prix
personal data
SURNAME Meyrat, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1916
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1969