Jean Lucas

Jean Lucas

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1955 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1955 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1955  Equipe Gordini
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Jean Lucas (born April 25, 1917 in Le Mans ; † September 27, 2003 ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Jean Lucas began his racing career as a rally driver . The end of the 1940s he moved to the racetrack and celebrated as a partner of Luigi Chinetti the Spa 24 Hours in a Ferrari 166mm his first great success in international motorsport.

In 1953 Lucas became team manager at Gordini and was also available to the team as a substitute driver. At the same time, however, he continued to contest sports car races in Europe and North Africa, where Lucas was a very popular driver in the 1950s. The Frenchman drove his only Formula 1 world championship run in 1955 at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza . Gordini driver Robert Manzon had to cancel at short notice and Lucas stepped in. During the race, engine failure on the Gordini Type 32 stopped him and forced him to give up prematurely.

In 1956 he was on a Ferrari 625F1 fifth at the Grand Prix of Caen and in 1957 second in the Coupe de Vitesse in Reims in one of Alan Brown borrowed Formula 2 - Cooper . At the 24 Hours of Le Mans he finished third in a Jaguar D-Type with Jean-Marie Brussin as his partner.

A serious accident with a Maserati 250F at the Morocco Grand Prix put an end to Lucas' sporting career. After his recovery he took over administrative activities in sports car racing and in 1962 founded the automobile magazine Sport-Auto together with Gérard Crombac .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1955	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1955
							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	WD	withdrawn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	YES Plisson	Ferrari 166MM	Pierre Louis-Dreyfus	failure	Engine failure
1950	Lord Selsdon	Ferrari 166MM	Peter Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baron Selsdon	failure	malfunction
1951	Luigi Chinetti	Ferrari 340 America	Luigi Chinetti	Rank 8
1952	Luigi Chinetti	Ferrari 340 America	Luigi Chinetti	failure	Disqualified
1954	Automobiles German & Bonnet	DB HBR	Pierre Louis-Dreyfus	failure	Gearbox damage
1955	Pierre Louis-Dreyfus	Ferrari 750 Monza	Pierre Louis-Dreyfus	failure	Engine failure
1956	Automobiles Talbot	Talbot-Lago Sport 2500	Goffredo Zehender	failure	accident
1957	Los Amigos team	Jaguar D-Type	Jean-Marie Brussin	Rank 3

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1956	Ecurie Lafayette	DB HBR	John Norwood	failure	Gearbox damage
1957	Renault Company	Renault Dauphine	Paul Brother	Rank 37
1959	Los Amigos	Cooper T49 Monaco	Jean-François Malle	failure	Oil leak

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Club Francia Amigos de la Panamericana	Gordini Type 16S	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
									DNF
1954	German & Bonnet	DB HBR	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
						DNF	DNF
1955	Pierre Louis-Dreyfus	DB HBR Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
					DNF	DNF
1956	Ecurie Lafayette	DB HBR	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
				DNF
1957	Renault Equipe Los Amigos François Picard	Renault Dauphine Jaguar D-Type Ferrari 500TR	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
				37	DNF		3	14th
1959	Los Amigos	Cooper T49	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			DNF

literature

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

Web links

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