José Rosinski

Alpine M63 , chassis 1703; crashed in the chassis 1702 Bino Heins , the teammate of José Rosinski in the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans deadly

José Rosinski (born April 13, 1936 in Paris , † June 3, 2011 ) was a French racing car driver and journalist .

Racing career

José Rosinki's driving career began in the late 1950s. He contested his first races in Formula Junior , where he competed in the 1961 French championship in a Cooper T56 . In 1962 he won the XXXII on a Cooper T59 ahead of Jo Schlesser and John Hine at the Circuit de Chimay . Grand Prix des Frontières . After a few more monopostor races and a few rallies - including with Michèle Dubosc on an Alpine A108 at the Rallye de Lions in 1963 - he only raced sports cars from this year on.

He had his first outings in a sports car in 1959. Together with Claude Bobrowski , he finished 21st in the final classification of the Targa Florio . At the Tour de France for automobiles , his Alfa Romeo Giulietta failed after a defect; Teammate was Piero Frescobaldi .

Between 1960 and 1967 Rosinski competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race six times . He made his debut in 1960 on an Alfa Romeo , which he drove with the car owner Giorgio Ubezzi . In 1962 he won the experimental vehicle class with a capacity of up to 1 liter. The commitment for Alpine in 1963 ended tragically. Team mate Christian Heins had a fatal accident. He had his last start at Le Mans in 1967 , where he achieved another class victory together with Henri Grandsire in the Alpine A210 . After the race, he ended his racing career.

Journalist, book author and television presenter

During his active time as a driver, he began working as a journalist. In Auto-Sport , Gérard Crombac's magazine , he reported regularly on motorsport from 1962 onwards. Between 1979 and 1989 he commented on the races of the Formula 1 World Championship for the French TV channel TF1 , first together with Bernard Giroux , and from 1987 with Christian Van Ryswyck . Until he left in 1990, he was also active as a presenter at all Le Mans races broadcast by the station.

José Rosinski wrote a large number of books on a wide variety of topics in motorsport; including publications about Matra Sports and the racing driver Patrick Depailler .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1960	Giorgio Ubezzi	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	Giorgio Ubezzi	failure	Power transmission
1962	Societé Automobiles René Bonnet	René Bonnet Djet	Bernard Consten	17th place and class win
1963	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine M63	Christian Heins	failure	fatal accident from Heins
1964	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 250 GTO	Ed Hugus	failure	malfunction
1965	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ / 2	Teodoro Zeccoli	failure	accident
1967	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A210	Henri Grandsire	9th place and class win

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1964	Automobiles Alpine	Alpine M63	Mauro Bianchi	failure	malfunction

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
1959	Paris	Alfa Romeo Giulietta	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				21st
1960	Bernard Consten Giorgio Ubezzi	Alfa Romeo Giulietta	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						40	DNF
1961	José Rosinski Bernard Consten	Alfa Romeo Giulietta	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
				8th	DNF
1962	Automobiles René Bonnet Lotus France	Porsche 356 René Bonnet Djet Lotus 23	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
							DNF			17th							11
1963	Alpine José Rosinski	Alpine M63 Alfa Romeo 2600	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
									11			DNF			13								DNF
1964	Alpine NART	Alpine M63 Alpine A110 Alpine M64 Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				DNF	DNF				DNF		DNF	19th										16
1965	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo TZ	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
														DNF
1966	Renault	Alpine A110	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
						6th
1967	Renault	Alpine A110 Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
							DNF		9

Web links

• On the death of José Rosinski (French)
• José Rosinski at the Driver Database
• José Rosinski at Racing Sports Cars
• Image: José Rosinski

Individual evidence

1. ↑ XXXII Grand Prix des Frontières 1962
2. ↑ Matra La Saga by José Rosinski