Henri Grandsire

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Alpine A220 , with the Henri Grandsire at the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans was the start

Henri Grandsire (born January 27, 1936 in Istres ) is a former French racing driver and actor.

Career

Henri Grandsire began his motorsport career in Formula Junior in the early 1950s . With a Stanguellini he was fifth in 1959 and seventh in 1960 in the European Cup. In 1963 he became a works driver at Alpine and in 1964 secured the title in the French Formula 3 championship with four race wins . Until the mid-1960s he drove Formula 3 and Formula 2 races for the French racing team, then he switched more and more to sports car racing.

In 1965 he finished seventh in the 12-hour race in Reims and together with Lucien Bianchi won the class up to 1.3 liters in an Alpine A210 . His best placings at the 24 Hours of Le Mans were ninth places in the overall classification, in 1966 with Leo Cella and in 1967 with José Rosinski , which also meant class victory.

At the 1000 km race in Paris he was able to celebrate a class win in 1964 (with Rosinski) and in 1968 he was fourth overall with Jean Guichet . In 1968 he had a serious accident while training for the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring . The Alpine A220 got under air on a bump in the Döttinger Höhe section and took off. The car overturned and slid on the roof nearly a hundred yards before coming to a stop. As the cockpit was hardly damaged, the Frenchman suffered only minor injuries.

Grandsire - who ended his racing career in 1969 - became known to a broad French audience in 1967 when he played the cartoon character Michel Vaillant in 13 episodes in the television series The Adventures of Michel Vaillant .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1964 FranceFrance Société des Automobiles Alpine Alpine M64 FranceFrance Philippe Vidal failure Gearbox damage
1965 FranceFrance Société des Automobiles Alpine Alpine M65 BelgiumBelgium Mauro Bianchi failure Gearbox damage
1966 FranceFrance Société des Automobiles Alpine Alpine A210 ItalyItaly Leo Cella 9th place and class win
1967 FranceFrance Société des Automobiles Alpine Alpine A210 FranceFrance José Rosinski 9th place and class win
1968 FranceFrance Société des Automobiles Alpine Alpine A220 FranceFrance Gérard Larrousse failure Brake defect
1969 FranceFrance Société des Automobiles Alpine Alpine A220 FranceFrance Jean-Claude Andruet failure Overheated cylinder

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1968 United StatesUnited States Societé Alpine Alpine A211 BelgiumBelgium Mauro Bianchi failure malfunction

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
1963 Alpine
Henri Grandsire
Alpine A108
Alpine M63
Alfa Romeo 2600
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly MAY GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly CON GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MON GermanyGermany WIS FranceFrance TAV GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly MON FranceFrance TDF United StatesUnited States BRI
DNF 15th DNF
1964 Alpine Alpine M63
Alpine M64
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly CON GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance REI GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON FranceFrance TDF United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI FranceFrance PAR
DNF DNF 19th 16
1965 Alpine Alpine M65 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly BOL ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MUG GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance REI ItalyItaly BOZ GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI
DNF DNF 7th
1966 Alpine Alpine A210
Alpine A110
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly CCE GermanyGermany HOK SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF DNF 9 DNF
1967 Alpine Alpine A210
Alpine A110
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM GermanyGermany HOK ItalyItaly MUG United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly CCE AustriaAustria ZEL SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY
DNF 16 DNF 9 39 DNF
1968 Alpine Alpine A211
Alpine A220
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY BelgiumBelgium SPA United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL FranceFrance LEM
DNF DNF 13 DNF
1969 Alpine Alpine A220 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF DNF

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