Eugène Dussous

Eugène Dussous was a French racing car driver .

Career

Dussous was active as a sports car racing driver in the late 1940s and 1950s. He drove his first international race at the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race in 1948 , which he was unable to finish as a partner of Jean de Montrémy .

Dussous was a works driver for the small French sports car manufacturer Monopole and was ninth in the 1948 12-hour race in Paris . During the first 24-hour race at Le Mans after the Second World War , which in 1949 took place Dussous was the first time in this long distance race at the start. Again de Montrémy was his partner and the two French came in twelfth overall on their Monopole Sport and won the racing class for racing vehicles between 0.7 and 1 liter displacement.

He competed at Le Mans five times in total; the 12th place in 1949 was his best result.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1949	Monopole Poissy	Monopoly sport	Jean de Montrémy	Rank 12 and class win
1950	Jacques Savoye	Monopole X84 tank	Jacques Savoye	failure	Oil leak
1952	Ets. Monopolies	Monopoles X84	Jean Hemard	14th place and class win
1953	Ets. Monopolies	Monopoles X84	Pierre Flahault	failure	Engine failure
1954	Automobiles Panhard et Levassor	Panhard X84	Jacques Savoye	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1953	Monopolies	Monopoles X84	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF
1954	Panhard & Levassor	Panhard X84	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	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

• Eugène Dussous at Racing Sports Cars
• Eugène Dussous at Race Database

Individual evidence

1. ^ 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps 1948
2. ↑ 12-hour race of Paris in 1948