Eugène Chaboud

Eugène Chaboud

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	Belgian Grand Prix 1950
Last start:	1951 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1950-1951 Talbot
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-20. ( 1950 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	1
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Eugène Marius Chaboud (born April 12, 1907 in Lyon , † December 28, 1983 in Montfermeil ) was a French Formula 1 and sports car racing driver .

Career

The son of a businessman started out as a promising athlete . By meeting with Jean Trémoulet infected but it joins the "Motorsportbazillus" of the 1930s, so he age of 29 in a 1936 Delahaye graduated sports car its first car race. The following year Chaboud denied several mountain races and debuted on the side Tremoulets in Le Mans . In Montlhéry he achieved his first victory in a hill climb. 1938 his fledgling career already reached a climax when a Delahaye he returned to the side of its discoverer the prestigious 24-hour race at Le Mans decided for themselves and in Chamonix - rally on a Lancia with a victory his versatility demonstrated posed. In 1939 he was hired by Ecurie France , whose trust he justified with a victory in the road race between Paris and Nice .

In the first race on French soil after the Second World War , Chaboud proved his class in the underpowered Delahaye with third place in the Coupe des Prisonniers 1945 in the Bois de Boulogne behind Jean-Pierre Wimille and Raymond Sommer . In 1946 he won another sports car race with the Belgian Grand Prix and was finally  French sports car champion on Delahaye and Talbot - again for Ecurie France . When his racing team separated from Delahaye, he switched to Ecurie Lutetia and stayed with his brand. But up to 1949 this resulted in only moderate success; because the Delahayes were no longer competitive, so that Chaboud withdrew more to his work as a car dealership, but still contested Le Mans and in 1950 at the Monte Carlo Rally on a Simca was second behind Louis Rosier .

In the newly formed Formula 1, Chaboud drove three Grand Prix races on a Talbot Lago in 1950 and 1951 . He achieved his best placement in fifth at the French Grand Prix in Reims in 1950 , when he shared the steering wheel of a Talbot with Philippe Étancelin , as the regulations allowed at the time.

He then turned back to sports car racing. But in 1952 he was involved in an accident at Le Mans in which he was trapped under the vehicle. He then decided to give up motorsport and only drove a few rallies until 1953. Then he devoted himself entirely to his business. Chaboud was one of the few semi-professional drivers of that era who made it into private life in time without a serious accident.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Ecurie Lutetia	Talbot-Lago T26C	Talbot 4.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	20th
	Team Philippe Etancelin	Talbot-Lago T26C-DA	Talbot 4.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-
1951	Team Eugène Chaboud	Talbot-Lago T26C-GS	Talbot 4.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	1

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1950
					DNF	5
1951
				8th

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
1937	Eugène Chaboud	Delahaye 135CS	Jean Trémoulet	failure	accident
1938	Eugène Chaboud	Delahaye 135CS	Jean Trémoulet	Overall victory
1939	Ecurie Francia	Delahaye 135CS	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	failure	malfunction
1949	Charles Pozzi	Delahaye 175CS	Charles Pozzi	failure	Fire
1951	Eugène Chaboud	Talbot Lago T26GS	Lucien Vincent	failure	cooler
1952	Eugène Chaboud	Talbot Lago T26GS	Charles Pozzi	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Eugène Chaboud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/drv-chaeug.html
• Eugène Chaboud at Racing Sports Cars
• Leif Snellman: Eugène Marius Chaboud (F). www.kolumbus.fi, November 26, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2020 (English). 
• Eugène Chaboud. www.24h-en-piste.com, accessed on March 28, 2020 (French). 
• Eugène Chaboud in the Internet Movie Database (English)