Jacques Pollet

Jacques Pollet

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1954 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1955 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1954  Equipe Gordini 1955 Automobiles Gordini
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Jacques Pollet (born July 2, 1922 in Roubaix , † August 16, 1997 in Paris ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Jacques Pollet, who already competed in the Formula 1 race in Chimay for Gordini in 1953, which is not part of the world championship , became a test driver for the French racing team in 1954. In 1954 he made his debut in the world championship. But both at the race in France and at the event in Spain he retired prematurely after an engine failure.

After finishing sixth at the Bordeaux Grand Prix and third place in Caen (which he had to share with Jean Behra ), he had a serious and momentous accident in Chimay. Pollet led the race when a blown stone damaged his glasses and he fell back. In the subsequent race to catch up, he lost control of his vehicle and raced into a group of spectators. Two spectators died in the fatal accident. In Le Mans that same year he was sixth in the overall standings with André Guelfi , winning the class up to 3000 cm³.

In 1955 he drove the Gordini Type 16 in three other Formula 1 world championship races. Seventh place in Monaco was his best result.

In 1954 he won the Tour de France for automobiles and finished eighth in the Mille Miglia on a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1954	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1955	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1954
				DNF					DNF
1955
		7th			10		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	WD	withdrawn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
1954	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T15S	André Guelfi	Rank 6 and class win
1955	Automobiles Gordini	Gordini T15S	Hernando da Silva Ramos	failure	cooler

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1954	Gordini	Gordini T15S	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
						6th
1955	Gordini	Gordini T15S	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
						DNF
1956		Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					8th

literature

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

Web links

• Jacques Pollet at Racing Sports Cars