Bernard Boyer

Bernard Boyer (left) at the 1972 Le Mans 24 hour race

Bernard Michel Georges Roger Boyer (born March 25, 1934 in Orléans , † March 19, 2018 in Le Beausset ) was a French racing car designer and racing driver .

Career

Boyer was best known as the designer and builder of Matra racing cars in the 1960s and 1970s. Before this job he was also active as a racing driver. In 1962 and 1963 he contested the Le Mans 24-hour race for Panhard and Alpine . As a partner of Guy Verrier , he failed prematurely due to engine failure in 1962 on a CD Dyna and in 1963 on an Alpine M63 .

After his active time as a racing driver, he worked as chief designer at Matra, where he was responsible for the development of the monoposto racing cars and sports prototypes . Successful Formula 1 racing cars such as the MS10 , the Matra MS80 , with which Jackie Stewart won the Formula 1 World Championship in 1969 , and the last Formula 1 racing car from Matra, the MS120 , were created on his drawing board . The Matra MS650 and its successors, MS660 , MS670 and MS680 , were also designed by Boyer.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1962	Panhard & Levassor	CD Dyna	Guy Verrier	failure	Engine failure
1963	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine M63	Guy Verrier	failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1962	Panhard & Levassor	CD Dyna	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									24	DNF
1963	Alpine	Alpine M63 Alpine A108	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
												DNF											DNF

literature

• José Rosinski: Matra. La saga. 1965-1982. ETAI, Boulogne 1997, ISBN 2-7268-8301-X .

Web links

Commons : Bernard Boyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Bernard Michel Georges Roger Boyer in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on August 25, 2020.