Joseph Hasley
Joseph Hasley was a French racing car driver .
Career
Joseph Hasley competed in sports car races for the French car manufacturer Salmson in the 1920s . His greatest success as a driver was second place overall in the 1927 Le Mans 24-hour race . Hasley and his team-mate André de Victor drove a Salmson GS, which only had a 1.1-liter 4-cylinder in- line engine . The race became famous for the White House disaster , a mass accident in which two of the three favored Bentleys were canceled and one was badly damaged. The two later winners Dudley Benjafield and Sammy Davis lost a lot of time in the pits after an emergency repair and still won in the end with 21 laps ahead of little Salmson. Hasley and de Victor won the 1.1-liter class as well as the Prix le Saint-Didier .
He dropped out at each of his other Le Mans starts . In 1926 through an accident and in 1928 after an engine failure on the Salmson GS.
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 |
 Société des Moteurs Salmson
|
Salmson GS |
André de Victor
|
failure | accident |
| 1927 |
Émile Salmson et Cie
|
Salmson GS |
André de Victor
|
Rank 2 and class win | |
| 1928 |
Société des Moteurs Salmson
|
Salmson GS |
Albert Perrot
|
disqualified |
literature
- RM Clarke: Le Mans. The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923–1939. Brocklands Books, Cobham 1999, ISBN 1-85520-465-7 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasley, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |