André Guelfi
Nation: | Morocco | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1958 Grand Prix of Morocco | ||||||||
Last start: | 1958 Grand Prix of Morocco | ||||||||
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1958 André Guelfi | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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Podiums : | - | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | - |
André Guelfi (born May 6, 1919 in Mazagan , Morocco , † June 28, 2016 in Paris , France ) was a Moroccan automobile racing driver .
Motorsport
André Guelfi, who came from a Corsican family, had a long career as a racing car driver, starting in 1950. His first racing car was a Delahaye , which he soon traded for a Jaguar . In 1953, he was known in his home to a wide audience as he on a Gordini , the sports car races won from Agadir. That brought him a works car for the Casablanca 12 hour race in 1953 . He shared the valance with Jean Behra , but the duo had to give up prematurely due to a technical defect.
In 1954, Guelfi became a permanent factory pilot with Gordini and had his first single- seater deployment at the Pescara Grand Prix . The race ended for him after just one lap when his car went up in flames after an engine failure. The tough sports car races of the 1950s were the right profession for the robust North African. In 1954 he finished sixth together with Jacques Pollet at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and won the class up to 3000 cm³.
Guelfi contested most of his races in Morocco and became national sports car champion in 1955. When Cooper's mid-engined racing cars showed the way forward , he bought one and drove it to Formula 1 races in France. In 1957 he finished seventh at the Pau Grand Prix and surprisingly second at the Paris Grand Prix in Montlhéry in 1958 , just three seconds behind the winner Henry Taylor .
In 1958 , Guelfi competed in the Morocco Grand Prix , making him the first African to compete in the top motorsport class. With the slow Formula 2 - Cooper T45 he was clearly inferior to the top drivers, but after a brave drive he was welcomed by thousands of cheering spectators - he was 15th and was four laps behind - when he crossed the finish line like the winner.
Guelfi drove car races until the late 1960s. His name can be found for the last time on a starting list in 1968 when he took part in a race in Rabat with a Porsche 911R .
Since the death of Robert La Caze , André Guelfi was the oldest Formula 1 racing driver still alive. He was followed by Kenneth McAlpine .
Entrepreneurial activity
Even during his time as a racing driver, Guelfi was very wealthy; he earned his living building ships for professional fishermen. After completing his motorsport career, he began building a real estate company in France in the 1970s. He bought over a hundred properties in Paris. He maintained relationships with influential circles and married a niece Georges Pompidous . From 1975 to 2000 he lived in Geneva , Switzerland .
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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1958 | André Guelfi | Cooper T45 | Climax 1.5 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
total | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 |
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1958 | |||||||||||
15th |
Legend | ||
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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 |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1950 | Ecurie Lutetia | Delahaye 175S | Gaston Serraud | failure | battery |
1951 | Johnny Claes | Ferrari 212 Export C | Jean Larivière | failure | Fatal accident in Larivière |
1953 | Capt. Marceau Crespin | Gordini T15S | Roger Loyer | failure | Engine failure |
1954 | Equipe Gordini | Gordini T15S | Jacques Pollet | Rank 6 and class win | |
1956 | Automobiles Gordini | Gordini T23S | Hernando da Silva Ramos | failure | Engine failure |
1957 | Equipe Gordini | Gordini T24S | Jean Guichet | failure | Engine failure |
1958 | Hervé Peignaux | Jaguar D-Type | Jean-Marie Brussin | failure | Fatal accident in Brussin |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th |
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1953 | Marceau Crespin | Gordini T15S | SEB | MIM | LEM | SPA | ONLY | RTT | CAP |
DNF | |||||||||
1954 | Gordini | Gordini T15S | BUA | SEB | MIM | LEM | RTT | CAP | |
6th | |||||||||
1957 | Gordini | Gordini T24S | BUA | SEB | MIM | ONLY | LEM | KRI | CAR |
DNF | |||||||||
1958 | Hervé Peignaux | Jaguar D-Type | BUA | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM | RTT | |
DNF |
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ André Guelfi alias "Dédé la sardine" est mort
- ↑ Ian McLeigh: Oldest living drivers of Formula One. snaplap.net, December 19, 2015, accessed November 14, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Guelfi, André |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mazagan |
DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2016 |
Place of death | Paris |