Ernest Friederich

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Ernest Friederich at the French Grand Prix in 1911 .
Friederich 1922 at the French Grand Prix .

Ernest (Jules) Friederich (also Ernest Friderich , Ernst Friedrich ) (born October 23, 1886 in Paris , † January 22, 1954 in Nice ) was a French racing driver and mechanic.

Career

At Émile Mathis in Strasbourg , he worked with Ettore Bugatti . In 1910 he was a partner of Bugatti when he founded the company's automobile factory in Molsheim in Alsace , where a street is named after him. They were supported by de Vizcaya from the Darmstädter Bank .

In the Indianapolis 500 in 1914 , Friederich led the first 125 miles. After 375 miles it had dropped to third place when a ball bearing on the rear axle broke. In 1920 he won the VIII Coupe des Voiturettes in Le Mans in a Bugatti Type 13 and in 1921 the I Gran Premio delle Vetturette at the Circuito di Montichiari near Brescia, ahead of three other Bugattis - those of Pierre de Vizcaya , Michele Baccoli and Piero Marco.

With a sales concession for the south of France, Ernest Friederich founded a car dealership in Nice in 1923 and hired Louis Chiron , who drove the cars for him from Molsheim to Nice.

His daughter Renée Friederich (born November 16, 1911 in Lunéville ; † February 24, 1932 in Pougues-les-Eaux ) had learned her driving skills from her father on the lightweight, flexible Bugatti. She died in the Féminin Paris - Saint Raphael rally when she lost control of her Delage in a corner . His son Paul also raced between 1945 and 1947.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1932 PolandPoland Count Stanisław Czaykowski Bugatti Type 55 PolandPoland Stanislaw Czaykowski failure Valve damage

Web links

Commons : Ernest Friederich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1920 Grands Prix. (No longer available online.) Www.teamdan.com, archived from the original on February 14, 2013 ; accessed on May 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 1921 Grands Prix. (No longer available online.) Www.teamdan.com, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; accessed on May 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ "too fast for Mademoiselle!" ; In: Automobil & Motorrad Chronik from September 1983
personal data
SURNAME Friederich, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing car driver and mechanic
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1954
Place of death Nice