François Picard

Francois Picard

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1958 Grand Prix of Morocco
Last start:	1958 Grand Prix of Morocco
Constructors
1958  Rob Walker Racing Team
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

François Picard (born April 26, 1921 in Villefranche-sur-Saône , † April 29, 1996 in Nice ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Picard began racing a Renault 4CV in 1949 . At the beginning of the 1950s, he replaced the Renault with a Porsche , with which he won a sports car race in Agadir in 1952 . From 1953 Picard became a well-known Ferrari privateer who mainly drove races in France and North Africa. In 1954 his compatriot Charles Pozzi was his partner. The duo won the 12-hour races in Reims and Hyères .

In 1955, Picard competed in his races in a Ferrari 500 Monza and finished second in the Coupe de Paris and third in the Agadir Grand Prix and the Paris 1000 km race .

In 1958 he drove the only monoposto race of his career. At the Morocco Grand Prix he started the race from 24th on the grid in a Cooper T43 , which was registered by Rob Walker . During this Formula 1 World Championship race , he had a serious accident when he crashed into the spinning racing car of Belgian Olivier Gendebien . Picard suffered serious injuries. He made a full recovery, but his racing career was over.

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1958	Rob Walker Racing Team	Cooper T43	Climax 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1958
											DNF

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	WD	withdrawn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
1956	Jean Lucas	Ferrari 500TR	Robert Tappan	Disqualified
1957	Los Amigos team	Ferrari 500TRC	Richie Ginther	failure	water pump
1958	Los Amigos team	Ferrari 250TR	Jaroslav Juhan	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1956	François Picard	Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
							DNF
1957	Los Amigos team	Ferrari 500TRC Ferrari 500 TR	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
							DNF	14th
1958	François Picard Team Los Amigos	Ferrari 250 GT Ferrari 250TR	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			8th			DNF	DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .