Monopoles X84
The Monopole X84 , also Monopole X84 Tank or Monopole X84 Sport was a sports car that was built by Monopole in France in 1950 .
Development history
The X84 was a two-seater Spider and the first successful racing car from the small French company Monopole. The Monopole racing cars were built almost exclusively for use in the Le Mans 24-hour race and were based on the technology of Panhard vehicles. At the first race at Le Mans after the Second World War , in 1949 , a monopoly - a sport with Jean de Montrémy and Eugène Dussous at the wheel - won the class for sports cars up to 1.1-liter displacement.
The X84 was Panhard and Monopole's first joint project. While the chassis and body were developed and manufactured at Monopole, Panhard contributed the front engine and transmission. The unit, the X 84 Dyna 100 from the Panhard Dyna X, was a 0.61 liter 2 cylinder boxer engine . From 1952 this was replaced by the more powerful X 85 Dyna 110.
Racing history
For the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1950 , Monopole registered two X84s in the class for sports cars with a displacement of up to 0.75 liters. The car with the number 52 was driven by Jean de Montrémy and Jean Hémard . The vehicle with the number 53 was driven by Dussous and Jacques Savoye , who had also reported the X84, although this racing car was also used and maintained by Monopole. The Panhard Dyna X84 Sport competed in the same class . These had adapted and modified X84 bodies that came to Panhard in return for the engines that went to monopoly. In the race, a three-way battle for class victory developed between the monopoly of Montremy and Hémarad, the DB Tank by René Bonnet and Élie Bayol , and the Czech Aero Minor of the two Dutchmen Maurice Gatsonides and Henk Hoogeveen . At the finish the Aero had a four-lap lead over the Monopole. Because the Panahrd engine was smaller than the 0.7-liter aero engine, the Monopole team won the Index of Performance and the 16th Biennial Cup.
In 1951 , Montrémy and Hémard again won the Index of Performance and the Biennial Cup. In class one time had to a plant - Renault 4 CV , that of François Landon and André Briat was down, admit defeat. 1952 was added to the renewed successes in the two index ratings, the class victory. The racing model was last driven in 1954 ; Pierre Hémard and Pierre Flahault reached 13th place in the overall ranking.
