Bernard Collomb

Bernard Collomb

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1961 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1963 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1961–1962  Bernard Collomb 1963 Bernard Collomb
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 4th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Niçois Bernard Collomb-Clerc (born October 7, 1930 in Annecy , † September 19, 2011 in La Colle-sur-Loup ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Collomb drove motorcycle racing when he in 1960 a Formula 2 - Cooper bought. In 1961 he drove the Grand Prix of Vienna on the airfield course of Aspern and the Grand Prix of Naples. The Frenchman finished fourth in Aspern and sixth in the race in Naples.

The Formula 2 Cooper was replaced later that year by a Cooper T53 that Collomb raced in the 1961 French Grand Prix in Reims . Like the German Grand Prix , which he drove a few weeks later, he had to give up the race prematurely after a technical defect. The car was almost completely destroyed after a fire in training for the 1962 Brussels Grand Prix and Collomb had to get a replacement car, with which he finished fifth in Enna .

In 1963 the Cooper was replaced by a Lotus 24 , with which Collomb drove in races in the World Automobile Championship until mid-1965 . This car, too, fell victim to the flames. When returning from the Gran Premio di Siracusa , the racing car burned out completely when the van caught fire after an electrical damage.

The third racing car that Collomb bought was also destroyed. With his Lotus 35 he had an accident at the Formula 2 race in Barcelona in 1966, which left the car behind as a wreck.

In 1968, Collomb put an end to his unsuccessful monoposto efforts and continued to drive rallies with Renault Alpine vehicles for several years . In 1968 he also competed in the Le Mans 24 Hours with an Alpine A110 .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1961	Bernard Collomb	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1962	Bernard Collomb	Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1963	Bernard Collomb	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				4th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1961
				DNF		NC
1962
						DNF
1963
	DNQ					10
1964
	DNQ

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
1968	Bernard Collomb	Alpine A110	François Laccarrau	not classified

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
1964	Wicky Racing	Lotus Elan	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
												DNF
1968	Bernard Collomb	Alpine A110	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												DNF

literature

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60s Formula I. Könemann, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0 .
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Image: The Collomb Alpine A110 at Le Mans 1968

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernard Collomb . Biography on oldracingcars.com. Retrieved October 29, 2011. (English)