Jean Laroche

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Jean Laroche (born September 29, 1914 - † May 5, 1967 ) was a French racing car driver .

Career in motorsport

Jean Laroche first appeared as a racing driver in 1951 when he finished 46th in the Tour de France for automobiles in a Renault 4CV . In 1953 he was back on the tour; this time together with Rémy Radix on an Osca MT4 1300 reported by Guglielmo Carraroli . Neither of them could finish the race.

He contested his first Le Mans 24-hour race in 1956 as a works driver for Osca . Again, Radix was his partner; The duo only got four laps, then Radix had an accident. Laroche's best placement at Le Mans was 14th in the 1958 final classification .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1956 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 FranceFrance Rémy Radix failure accident
1957 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 FranceFrance Rémy Radix Rank 19
1958 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 FranceFrance Rémy Radix Rank 14
1959 ItalyItaly OSCA Automobili Osca Sport 750 MonacoMonaco André Testut failure Gearbox damage
1960 ItalyItaly Automobiles OSCA Osca Sport 750 FranceFrance André Simon failure Engine failure
1961 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Colin Davis failure cooler

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
1957 Osca Osca S750 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM SwedenSweden KRI VenezuelaVenezuela CAR
61 19th
1958 Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT
14th
1959 Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT
DNF
1960 Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM
DNF
1961 Automobili OSCA Osca Sport 750 United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly PES
DNF
1963 Fiat-Abarth 700 Bialbero 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
1964 Bourgogne BMW 1800 Ti 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

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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Laroche, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1914
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1967