Jacques Péron

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The Ferrari 500TRC (blue in the middle of the picture) with Jacques Péron at the start of the 1957 Le Mans 24-hour race

Jacques Péron (born September 8, 1912 in Nice , † October 10, 1988 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a French racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Jacques Péron was active both as a rally driver and as a circuit driver in the 1950s . His greatest successes in rallying were the overall victories at the Morocco Rally in 1951 and 1953. In 1951 he was co-driver of Jean Lucas in the Ferrari 212 ; 1953 Co-pilot of the Belgian Paul van de Kaart in a Porsche 356 1300 . As a driver, he won the 1956 Rallye de Forêt and 1957 the Algeria Rally.

As a circuit driver, he was particularly successful in the Tour de France for automobiles . In 1953 he won the 2510 km road race from his hometown Nice to Brest on an Osca MT4 1100 . In 1951 he finished the tour in second place; 1954 as third. There was also a fourth place in 1958 with Harry Schell and a fifth in 1957 with Georges Burggraff . The 1952 12-hour race in Casablanca also ended for him in the top field; with Jean Lucas he finished second in the Ferrari 225S .

When 24-hour race at Le Mans , he was three times at the start. Two missions ended prematurely after a retirement, in 1951 he finished ninth overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1951 FranceFrance Norbert-Jean Mahé Ferrari 212 export FranceFrance Norbert-Jean Mahé Rank 9
1954 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA Osca MT4 1500 ItalyItaly Francesco Giardini failure accident
1957 FranceFrance Fernand Tavano Ferrari 500TRC FranceFrance Fernand Tavano failure Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th
1953 Jacques Péron Osca MT4 United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF
1954 Osca Osca MT4 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF
1957 Fernand Tavano Ferrari 500TRC ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM SwedenSweden KRI VenezuelaVenezuela CAR
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 : Jacques Péron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Jacques Peron in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on June 4, 2020.
  2. ↑ 1952 Casablanca 12-hour race
personal data
SURNAME Peron, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1988
Place of death Saint-Germain-en-Laye