Le Mans 24 hour race 1929
The seventh 24-hour race at Le Mans , the 7 e Grand Prix d'Endurance les 24 Heures du Mans , also 7emes Grand Prix d'Endurance les 24 Heures du Mans Circuit de la Sarthe Permanenthe , was held from 15 to 16 June 1929 on the Circuit des 24 Heures .
The race
For the first time since the opening race in 1923 , the route was adapted. The bend at Pontlieue was replaced by a new section of the route, reducing the length of the route to 16.340 km.
The favorites for overall victory were once again the Bentley works cars , which had won the race in the past two years. Woolf Barnato and Tim Birkin drove the new 6-cylinder Bentley, the Speed Six. Serious competition arose from the British cars, as in 1928 from the American Stutz and Chrysler , but these were used by French teams. There was also a 5.3-liter Du Pont and various private teams. The host country was mainly represented by Tracta .
The Bentleys set the pace from the start. Only the Stutz could follow the British works car. On Saturday evening, these vehicles had lapped the rest of the field at least once. After a quiet night, it soon became clear that the Bentleys couldn't be beaten. The British press was able to celebrate a quadruple Bentley victory in the end. Barnato won his second 24-hour race in a row and Tim Birkin his first. The victorious Speed Six also secured the index ranking and victory in the highest displacement class, so that Barnato and Birkin each received three prizes at the award ceremony.
In the final laps, the leading factory Bentleys formed up to cross the finish line in close succession. The “ Bentley Boys ” thus introduced a procedure that is still practiced today by the respective teams when they cross the finish line.
Results
Pilots by nationality
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Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis | engine | tires | Round |
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1 | 8.0 | 1 |
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Bentley Speed Six Old Number One | Bentley 6.6L I6 | D. | 174 |
2 | 5.0 | 9 |
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Bentley 4½ liter | Bentley 4.4L I4 | D. | 167 |
3 | 5.0 | 10 |
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Bentley 4½ liter | Bentley 4.4L I4 | D. | 159 |
4th | 5.0 | 8th |
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Bentley 4½ liter | Bentley 4.4L I4 | D. | 157 |
5 | 8.0 | 5 |
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Stutz Model M Blackhawk | Stutz 5.3L Supercharged I8 | D. | 153 |
6th | 5.0 | 14th |
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Chrysler 75 Six | Chrysler 4.1L I6 | D. | 152 |
7th | 5.0 | 15th |
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Chrysler 77 Six | Chrysler 4.1L I6 | D. | 149 |
8th | 1.5 | 21st |
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Lea-Francis S-Type Hyper | Meadows 1.5L Supercharged I4 | D. | 136 |
9 | 1.1 | 26th |
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Tracta Type A | SCAP 1.0L Supercharged I4 | D. | 128 |
10 | 1.1 | 27 |
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Tracta Type A | SCAP 1.0L Supercharged I4 | D. | 126 |
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11 | 8.0 | 6th |
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Stutz Model M Blackhawk | Stutz 5.3L Supercharged I8 | D. | 104 |
12 | 1.5 | 20th |
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BNC Acacias | Meadows 1.5L I4 | D. | 88 |
13 | 5.0 | 7th |
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Invicta LC 4½ liter | Meadows 4.5L I6 | D. | 78 |
14th | 2.0 | 19th |
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SARA SP7 | SARA 1.8L I4 | D. | 73 |
15th | 1.1 | 25th |
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Tracta Type A | SCAP 1.0L Supercharged I4 | D. | 70 |
16 | 8.0 | 4th |
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Stutz Model M Blackhawk | Stutz 5.3L Supercharged I8 | D. | 65 |
17th | 1.1 | 24 |
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Tracta Spéciale | Cozette 1.0L Supercharged I4 | D. | 43 |
18th | 2.0 | 16 |
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Lagonda 2 liter speed | Lagonda 2.0L I4 | D. | 29 |
19th | 1.1 | 29 |
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BNC type 527 | Ruby 1.0L I4 | D. | 24 |
20th | 2.0 | 18th |
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SARA SP7 | SARA 1.8L I4 | D. | 22nd |
21st | 1.5 | 22nd |
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Alvis FA8 / 15 | Alvis 1.5L Supercharged I4 | D. | 21st |
22nd | 8.0 | 2 |
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Du Pont Model G Speedster Le Mans | Continental 5.3L I8 | D. | 20th |
23 | 1.1 | 30th |
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BNC type 527 | BNC 1.0L I4 | D. | 15th |
24 | 750 | 31 |
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D'Yrsan Grand Sport | Ruby 0.7 I4 | D. | 9 |
25th | 5.0 | 11 |
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Bentley 4½ liter | Bentley 4.4L I6 | D. | 7th |
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26th | 1.5 | 23 |
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Alvis FA8 / 15 | Alvis 1.5L I4 | D. | 1 |
27 | 5.0 |
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Bentley 4½ liter | Bentley 4.4L I6 | D. | 2 |
1 engine failure in training 2 training cars
Only in the entry list
Here you can find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race, but did not take part for various reasons.
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis | engine | tires |
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28 | 8.0 | 3 |
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Du Pont Model G Speedster | Continental 5.3L I8 | D. |
29 | 4.0 | 15th |
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Oakland All-American Six | Oakland 3.5L I6 | M. | |
30th | 2.0 | 17th |
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Lagonda 2 liter speed | Lagonda 2.0L I4 | D. | |
31 | Stutz DV32 Bear Cat | Stutz 5.3L Supercharged I8 | |||||
32 | Tracta | ||||||
33 | 1.1 | 28 |
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D'Yrsan Grand Sport | Ruby 0.7 I4 | D. |
Rudge Whitworth Biennale Cup
Prix le Saint-Didier - Index of Performance
Class winner
Racing data
- Registered: 33
- Started: 25
- Valued: 10
- Race classes: 6
- Spectator: unknown
- Honorary starter of the race: Emile Coquille , French representative of the tire manufacturer Rudge-Whitworth
- Race weekend weather: dry
- Route length: 16.340 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 24: 00: 00,000 hours
- Total laps of the winning team: 174
- Total distance of the winning team: 2843.830 km
- Winner's average: 118.492 km / h
- Pole position: unknown
- Fastest race lap: Tim Birkin - Bentley Speed Six (# 1) - 7: 21,000 = 133.551 km / h
- Racing series: did not belong to any racing series
literature
- Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .
- RM Clarke: Le Mans. The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939. Brooklands Books, Cobham 1998, ISBN 1-85520-465-7 .
- Quentin Spurring: Le Mans The Official History 1923-29 Evro Publishing, Hardcover, 2015, ISBN 1-91050-508-0 .