Charles Moran

Du Pont Model G Speedster Le Mans

Charles Moran (born May 27, 1906 in New York City , † June 7, 1978 in Teasdale ) was an American entrepreneur and racing driver .

Family and work

Charles Moran worked as a sales representative for the Indian Motocycle Company in the early 1920s . After a few years at Indian, he moved to Du Pont Motors . First he also worked there in sales, then became a test driver and technical employee. As you Pont in 1932 as a late consequence of the global economic crisis in bankruptcy went, he was managing director and head of the racing department. After the end of World War II , he worked as a stockbroker at Francis I. Dupont and Co , a Wall Street financial services company .

Charles Moran was married twice and had five children. His private vehicles were usually Bentley , Ferrari and Maserati models , which he also used to drive to work on a regular basis.

Racing career

Charles Moran was the first American to compete as a driver in the Le Mans 24 Hours . As head of the racing department, he drove a Du Pont Model G Speedster Le Mans together with the French Alfredo Miranda in 1929 . The heavy and unwieldy car suffered from problems with the power transmission, which was defective after only 20 laps.

At the end of the 1940s, he resumed racing activities. He started again at Le Mans and achieved 10th overall in 1953, the best result in the final classification. He drove the Sebring 12 Hours and was a regular participant in the SCCA National Sports Car Championship .

After the end of his racing career he was President of the Sports Car Club of America and representative of the USA in the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1929	Du Pont Motor Co.	Du Pont Model G Speedster Le Mans	Alfredo Miranda	failure	Power transmission
1951	Charles Moran	Ferrari 212 export	Franco Cornacchia	Rank 16
1952	Charles Moran	Ferrari 212 MM	Franco Cornacchia	failure	Electrics
1953	Briggs Cunningham	Cunningham C4-RK	John Gordon Bennett	Rank 10

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1953	Briggs Cunningham	Frazer Nash Targa Florio	John Gordon Bennett		failure	malfunction
1957	Charles Moran	Lotus Eleven	Malcolm Wyllie	Margaret Wyllie	Disqualified
1958	Charles Moran	Lotus Eleven Le Mans	Paul Ceresole		Rank 38
1959	Charles Moran	Lotus Eleven Le Mans	George Rand		Rank 33

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Briggs Cunningham	Frazer Nash Targa Florio Cunningham C4-R	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
			DNF		10
1957	Charles Moran	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
				DNF
1958	Charles Moran	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				38
1959	Charles Moran	Lotus Eleven	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			33

literature

• RM Clarke: Le Mans. The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923–1939. Brocklands Books, Cobham 1999, ISBN 1-85520-465-7 .

Web links

• Charles Moran at OldracingCars
• About Charles Moran
• Charles Moran at the Driver Database
• Charles Moran at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the End of Francis I. Dupont and Co (English)