Paco Godia

Paco Godia

Nation:	Spain
Automobile world championship
First start:	1951 Spanish Grand Prix
Last start:	1958 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1951  Scuderia Milano  • 1954, 1956  Maserati  • 1957–1958 Francisco Godia Sales
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup ninth ( 1956 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 13 - - -
World Cup points :	6th
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Francisco "Paco" Godia Sales (born March 21, 1921 in Barcelona ; † November 28, 1990 ibid), also called "Chico" Godia , was a Spanish automobile racing driver .

Career

Godia was a wealthy businessman who started motorsport in 1945. First he started in sports car races; As a private driver and partly as a member of the Maserati racing team, he competed in Formula 1 races in the 1950s . He made his first appearance at the 1951 Spanish Grand Prix , where he finished tenth, ten laps behind. His best season was the 1956 season , when he scored six points with two fourth places at the GPs in Germany and Italy and was ninth in the World Cup. After an accident at the French Grand Prix in the 1958 season, he ended his career.

Godia later became an art collector and founded a museum in Barcelona in which, in addition to reminiscences of his racing career, art objects can also be seen. Godia also helped build the Circuit de Catalunya , where the Spanish Grand Prix has been held since 1991 . Godia died in 1990 at the age of 69.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1951	Scuderia Milano	Maserati 4CLT / 50	Milano 1.5 L4s	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1954	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1956	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	5	-	-	-	-	-	6th	9.
1957	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1958	Francesco Godia Sales	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				13	-	-	-	-	-	6th

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1951
								10
1954
									6th
1956
				DNF	7th	8th	4th	4th
1957
						DNF	DNF	9
1958
	8th	DNQ			DNF	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
1949	WS Watney	Delage Type D 6-3 liters	Louis Gérard	Rank 4
1958	Francisco Godia	Maserati 300S	Joakim Bonnier	failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1956	Maserati	Maserati 300S	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
							DNF
1957	Paco Godia	Maserati 300S	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						5
1958	Scuderia Centro Sud Paco Godia	Maserati 300S	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			DNF				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

Commons : Paco Godia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paco Godia at Racing Sports Cars