Maurice Rost

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Maurice Rost 1925
Maurice Rost after his victory at the Grand Prix de Provence in 1926

Maurice Rost (born October 13, 1886 in Clichy , † October 31, 1958 in Le Vésinet ) was a French racing car driver and aviator .

Aviator

Before the First World War , in the early stages of aviation , Maurice Rost participated in aerial races . He worked as a pilot at the Société de Production des Aéroplanes Deperdussin, based in Étampes . In 1913 he won the Cross Country Aérien flown out in Reims .

Racing career

After the end of the First World War, Maurice Rost's racing career began. He celebrated his first victory at the Circuit des Routes Pavées 1923 , a road race for sports cars in Pont-à-Marcq in northern France . Rost won this race two more times in his career in 1925 and 1927. Rost contested his races almost exclusively with racing cars from Georges Irat . He had a long-term contract with the company, which was founded in Paris in 1914 .

His greatest success in sports cars was winning the 1927 San Sebastián 12-hour race , also known as the Guipúzcoa Grand Prix . This was a sports car race; the event for monoposto cars was held as the Gran Premio de San Sebastián . His teammate was Marcel Lehoux . His best monoposto results were victories at the Grand Prix de Provence in 1926 and the Grand Prix of Morocco in 1927 .

He competed twice in the Le Mans 24-hour race . In 1926 the Georges Irat 4A / 3, which he drove with Emil Burie , retired early in the race after a defect. In the 1931 race he competed with Caberto Conelli in a Bugatti T50S . On Saturday evening Cobelli had a serious accident after a puncture. The wreck of the Bugatti hurled into a group of spectators, where one spectator was killed. After the tragedy became known, Ettore Bugatti withdrew the other two cars from the race. It was Rost's last known race start.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1926 FranceFrance Automobiles Georges Irat Georges-Irat Type 4A Sport FranceFrance Emil Burie failure malfunction
1931 FranceFrance Bugatti team Bugatti Type 50S ItalyItaly Caberto Conelli failure accident

Web links

Commons : Maurice Rost  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurice Rost and Deperdussin
  2. ^ Maurice Rost at the Cross Country Aérien
  3. ↑ Circuit des Routes Pavées 1923
  4. ↑ 12-hour race of San Sebastián 1927
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French car racing driver and aviator
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Clichy
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1958
Place of death Le Vésinet