Lucien Desvaux

Lucien Desvaux at the 1922 French Grand Prix

Lucien Louis Charles Desvaux (born December 2, 1894 in Montrouge , † unknown) was a French racing driver .

Career

Lucien Desvaux competed in sports car races for Salmson and Lombard in the 1920s . In 1923 he won the Bol d'Or, a race for cyclecars in Paris, on a Salmson . He had to share the overall victory with Robert Benoist . In 1923 it made its debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and finished the race in twelfth place overall. He achieved his best placement in Le Mans in 1927 with fourth place in the overall standings.

The Frenchman was also able to achieve success in the monoposto . At the French Grand Prix in 1928 he finished fourth.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1923	Société des Moteurs Salmson	Salmson VAL3	Georges Casse	Rank 12 and class win
1925	Grand Garage Saint-Didier Paris	Chrysler 70 six	Henri Stoffel	not classified
1927	Société des Construction Automobile Parisienne	SCAP Type O	Fernand Vallon	Rank 4
1928	Automobiles Lombard SA	Lombard AL3 Grand Air Sport	Pierre Goutte	Rank 13
1929	Bollack, Netter et Cie	BNC Acacias	Auguste Caralp	failure	Power transmission

literature

• Moity / Teissedre: 24 Hours of Le Mans 1923–1992 . Edition D'Art JP Barthelemy, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Lucien Desvaux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lucien Desvaux at Racing Sports Cars
• Lucien Desvaux at 24-hour en-piste