Edmond Mouche

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The first Porsche Le Mans racing car. The number 46 356/4 SL Coupe was driven by Auguste Veuillet and Edmond Mouche in 1951 . The two French achieved 20th place in the overall standings and won the racing class for vehicles up to 1.1 liter displacement.

Edmond Mouche (born September 4, 1899 - May 12, 1989 ) was a French racing car driver .

Career

In the Le Mans history of Porsche Edmond Mouche takes a special place. At the beginning of the 1950s, Mouche was not only active as a racing driver, he was also close friends with the first Porsche general importer in France, Auguste Veuillet . Charles Faroux , one of the founding fathers of the Le Mans race, was behind the use of a Porsche at Le Mans. In 1951 Mouche and Veuillet entered the race with a 356/4 SL Coupe , finished 20th in the overall standings and won their racing class. A year later they won their class again and this time came eleventh overall.

Apart from Le Mans and sports car races, he competed in monopostor races in 1947 and 1948 . His best placement was fifth at the Grand Prix de Reims in 1947 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1949 FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet Delage Type D 6-3 liters FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet failure Engine failure
1950 FranceFrance Jacques Poch Aero Minor FranceFrance Jacques Poch failure accident
1951 GermanyGermany Porsche KG Porsche 356/4 SL Coupe FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet Rank 20 and class win
1952 GermanyGermany Porsche KG Porsche 356/4 FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet 11th place and class win
1953 GermanyGermany Borgward GmbH Borgward Hansa 1500 racing FranceFrance Jacques Poch failure Engine failure
1954 FranceFrance Alexandre Constantin Constantin Barquette FranceFrance Alexandre Constantin failure Gearbox damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th
1953 Borgward Borgward Hansa 1500 sports coupe United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF
1954 Alexandre Constantin Constantin Barquette ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Edmond Mouche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grand Prix of Reims 1947
personal data
SURNAME Mouche, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1899
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1989