Élie Bayol

Élie Bayol

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1956 Monaco Grand Prix
Constructors
1952–1953 Elie Bayol Team · 1953 OSCA · 1954–1956 Gordini
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-19. ( 1954 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	2
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Élie Bayol (born February 28, 1914 in Marseille , † May 25, 1995 in La Ciotat , Bouches-du-Rhône ) was a French racing driver.

Career

The southern French rider belongs to the large group of drivers whose talent flashed again and again, but who never made a big breakthrough due to a lack of competitive material.

In the early 1950s, Bayol was active on DB Panhard in mountain and Formula 2 races in France. For the Formula 1 seasons of 1952 and 1953 , which were held according to Formula 2 rules, he acquired a private car from the OSCA brand . However, these Italian cars were neither fast nor reliable, so that he never crossed the finish line at any World Championship round. The highlight of this time was undoubtedly a victory in a race in Aix-les-Bains that was not part of the World Cup .

In the 1954 season he joined the inferior Gordini racing team, which used him sporadically in races. At the GP of Argentina he was able to achieve his only World Championship points with a fifth place. Like most drivers of this era, Bayol also tried endurance races and finished tenth in the Le Mans 24-hour race . In 1955 he suffered severe head injuries in a training accident at Le Mans.

In the 1956 season he achieved sixth place on Gordini together with André Pilette in Monaco, but back then there were no World Cup points. Frustrated by his inferior equipment, but also remembering his serious accident in 1955, he retired from active racing at the end of 1956. He died in 1995 at the age of 81.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1952	Elie Bayol	OSCA 20	OSCA 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1953	Elie Bayol	OSCA 20	OSCA 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	OSCA			1	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	2	19th
1955	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1956	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T32	Gordini 2.5 L8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				7th	-	-	-	-	-	2

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	Remarks
1952
								DNF
1953
					DNF				DNF
1954
	5
1955
	DNF	DNF
1956										drove Pilette's car; Rd. 45-88
		6th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1950	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	DB tank	René Bonnet	Rank 23
1951	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	DB tank	René Bonnet	Rank 21
1952	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	DB tank	René Bonnet	failure	Power transmission
1953	Automobiles Talbot-Darracq	Talbot-Lago T26GS	Louis Rosier	failure	Power transmission
1954	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	DB HBR	René Bonnet	Rank 10 and class win

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Talbot	Talbot-Lago T26	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF
1954	Gordini German & Bonnet	Gordini T15S DB HBR	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
			DNF			10	DNF
1955	Gordini	Gordini T24S DB HBR	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
			5		67
1956		DB HBR	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					DNF

Web links

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