Georges Hacquin

Together with Gustave Gosselin and Claude Dubois , Georges Hacquin was registered in a Ford GT40 Mk.II of the Scuderia Filipinetti at the 24-hour race of Le Mans in 1966 ; but the team did not show up for training and the race

Georges Hacquin (born February 10, 1924 in Brussels ) is a former Belgian racing driver and entrepreneur.

Racing career

Georges Hacquin's career began at the beginning of the 1950s, in an era in which many Belgian racing drivers celebrated their first successes in international motorsport. They included Paul Frère , Lucien Bianchi , Olivier Gendebien , Jacques Swaters , Johnny Claes and Willy Mairesse , among others . He was and is close friends with Freddy Rousselle (1927–2016), Gérard Langlois van Ophem (* 1935) and Jean Blaton (* 1929).

Hacquin first competed in amateur races and drove his first season in the Belgian touring car championship in 1952 on a Simca . In addition to racing on the circuit, he also took part in many rallies . In 1958 he became Belgian rally champion and competed in the European rally championship until 1983 . The last emergency car was an MG Metro 1300S .

On the circuit, his first international success was fourth overall in the 1.5-liter class at the Reims 12-hour race in 1956 . His partner in this endurance race , which was won by Richard von Frankenberg and Claude Storez in a Porsche 550 RS , was his compatriot Georges Harris . The emergency car was also a Porsche . 1957 he went with partner Claude Dubois that 24-hour race at Le Mans . The Porsche 550A RS reported by the Equipe Nationale Belge was disqualified after eight hours of driving for illegal refueling.

According to his own information, Georges Hacquin contested more than 250 races, including the Tour de France for automobiles , the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring , the 1000 km race in Paris and the 24-hour race in Spa -Francorchamps at the start. He ran a building cleaning company in Brussels well into old age and took part in the Dakar Rally for the first time in 1981 at the age of 55 , where another four outings followed by 1985.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1957	Equipe Nationale Belge	Porsche 550A RS	Claude Dubois	disqualified

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
1957	Equipe Nationale Belge	Porsche 550	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
							DNF	17th
1959	Georges Hacquin	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					33
1960	Georges Hacquin	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						34
1961	Georges Hacquin	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					37
1964	Equipe Nationale Belge	Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Super	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
																			DNF
1967	Matra Benelux	Matra Djet	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
						17th		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

• About Georges Hacquin
• Georges Hacquin at Racing Sports Cars
• Georges Hacquin at EWRC-Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1956 Reims 12-hour race, 1.5-liter class