Jean Thépenier

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Jean Thépenier is a former French racing car driver and Maserati dealer.

Career

Jean Thépenier was a Maserati dealer in France and worked in close contact with the general importer Johnny Simone . Many Maserati models driven for the first time in France can be traced back to Thépenier and Simone's imports.

He was also friends with Aldo Gordini and André Simon . He competed in monoposto and sports car races for Aldo's father Amédée and his Gordini team in the early 1950s . With Simon he competed several times in the Tour de France for automobiles . Thépenier was primarily a sports car driver. Its use in vehicles with free-standing wheels, such as in the Gordini Type 15 at the Grand Prix de Cadours in 1952 and 1954 , remained largely unsuccessful.

In sports cars, he was third in the Coupes de Paris in 1954 and fifth in the Coupe d'Automne in the same year ; both times in the T15S .

Once he drove the 24-hour race at Le Mans , in 1956 he finished the race as a partner of Jean-Claude Vidilles in eleventh overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1956 FranceFrance Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet DB HBR FranceFrance Jean-Claude Vidilles Rank 11

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 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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ import list of imported from Thepenier Maseratis
  2. ↑ 1952 Cadours Grand Prix
  3. ↑ 1954 Cadours Grand Prix
  4. ^ Coupes de Paris 1954
  5. ^ Coupe d'Automne 1954
personal data
SURNAME Thépenier, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing car driver and Maserati dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century