Bob Neyret

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The Aseptogyl Lancia Stratos Turbo owned by Lella Lombardi and Christine Dacremont at the 24-hour race of Le Mans in 1976
Aseptogyl- Alpine A110 with the distinctive paintwork

Robert "Bob" Neyret (born February 28, 1934 in Grenoble ) is a former French entrepreneur, car racing driver and racing team owner.

Racing career

Bob Neyret was a trained dentist and a well-known French rally driver in the 1960s . Neyret had a particular affinity for rallies in the desert and in the snow . His first international outing was at the Liège-Rome-Liège rally in 1960 . For the first time, his long-time friend Jacques Terramorsi , who himself was an active driver, was his co-driver. The duo finished 13th overall in the Triumph TR3 (winners were Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom - the daughter of Elsie - and Tommy Wisdom - in the Austin-Healey 3000 ).

His first victory was at the Critérium Neige et Glace in 1962, a rally that took place on snow-covered roads in the Jura department . When he won his first Morocco Rally in 1969 , he was already a works driver at Citroën and drove a DS 21 Proto Chassis Court together with Terramorsi . He repeated this success in 1970 . In the factory Peugeot 504 Ti , Neyret and Terramorsi won the Ivory Coast Rally in 1971 , another event on the dusty African desert roads . In 1981 he drove his last rally in Ivory Coast . In the Alpine A310 it failed after an engine failure.

Bob Neyret was also active on the circuit. In 1966 he contested the 1000 km race in Paris at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry in a Ferrari 250 GTO together with Terramorsi, who this time was active as a driver . With a gap of 12 laps on David Piper and Mike Parkes , who shared the cockpit of a Ferrari 250LM , the duo finished this endurance race in third place overall. In addition to starting the Tour de France for automobiles , he also drove twice in the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race .

Entrepreneur and racing team owner

In 1971 he founded a company that manufactured a toothpaste marketed under the name Aseptogyl . In order to increase the awareness of the product in France, he moved his racing activities from driver to racing team owner. His racing team was characterized by two main features: the pink color of the emergency vehicles, which corresponded to the toothpaste packaging, and only women in the respective cockpits. The team was led by Claudine Bouchet , the second wife of René Trautmann (was married to Marie-Claude Charmasson for the first time ). The Alpine A110 and Lancia Stratos were entered in the Monte Carlo Rally of the Tour de France for automobiles and the Le Mans 24-hour race . The cars were driven by Lella Lombardi , Marie Laurent , Yvette Fontaine , Marianne Hoepfner and Christine Dacremont, among others .

In 1976 Lombardi and Dacremont reached 20th place overall with the Lancia Stratos at Le Mans. In 1977 the Lancia, this time driven by Dacremont and Hoepfner, broke down with an engine failure. In 1978 a defective cylinder head gasket stopped the duo.

comics

In 2011, Bob Neyret became the focus of the comic book Les filles de l'oncle Bob by the Dutch cartoonist Emilio Van der Zuiden .

literature

  • Jörg D. Brosowski: Alpine Blue Wins (book, 556 pages) - Torques (film), ISBN 9783000235887 .

Web links

Commons : Bob Neyret  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rallye Liège-Rome-Liège 1960
  2. ↑ Critérium Neige et Glace 1962
  3. ↑ Ivory Coast Rally 1981
  4. ↑ The Aesptogyl team in Le Mans in 1976
  5. ↑ Les filles de l'oncle Bob
personal data
SURNAME Neyret, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neyret, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenoble