Lino Fayen

Lino Fayen in the Ferrari 500 Mondial at the Tour de France for automobiles in 1954

Léon Marcel Louis "Lino" Fayen (born September 15, 1925 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne , † May 7, 1972 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan racing driver and entrepreneur of French descent.

Career

Lino Fayen emigrated to Venezuela after the end of the Second World War and took citizenship of that country. He entered his first races as a Frenchman, for example the Coupe du Salon in 1951 in Montlhéry . In 1953 he won the Coupe de Printemps and won a sports car race at the Circuit du Lac on a Ferrari 212 Export . In 1954 he was partner of Pierre Levegh at Le Mans and finished this 24-hour race in 1959 in sixth place overall.

In 1971 he opened a Nissan dealership in Caracas , which was closed in 2014.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1954	Pierre Levegh	Talbot-Lago T26GS	Pierre Levegh	failure	accident
1959	Lino Fayen	Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta	Gino Munaron	Rank 6

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1957	AC Car Company	AC Ace	Juan Fernandez	JL Droullers	Rank 17

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1954	Pierre Levegh	Talbot-Lago Type 26 Grand Sport	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
						DNF
1955		Moretti 750S Spider	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
					DNF
1956	Scuderia Guastalla	Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
			DNF
1957	Venezuela Sports Group AC Cars Equipo CADV	Osca TN1500 AC Ace Trans-Oliver	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
			DNF	17th					20th
1959	Lino Fayen	Ferrari 250 GT	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						6th

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

Commons : Lino Fayen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lino Fayen at Historic Racing
• Lino Fayen at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Coupes du Salon 1951
2. ↑ Fayen Nissan closed (Spanish)