Norbert-Jean Mahé

Norbert-Jean Mahé 1933

Norbert-Jean Mahé (born July 12, 1903 , † after 1953) was a French racing driver .

Racing career

Norbert-Jean Mahé began motor sports in the 1930s and was successful in sports car races . In 1934 he contested his first Le Mans 24-hour race , which he and Jean Desvignes finished ninth overall in a Bugatti Type 44 . At the finish line, the duo was 22 laps behind the winners Luigi Chinetti and Philippe Étancelin in the Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 . In the same year he won the Spa 10-hour race with Desvignes . He celebrated further successes with fourth place at the Grand Prix de la Marne in 1935 and 11th place at the 3-hour race in Marseille in 1936 .

With the resumption of the Le Mans event in 1949 , Mahé resumed its racing activities after the Second World War . Until 1953 he drove a total of seven times in Le Mans. Ninth place in 1934 remained his best result in the final classification.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1934	Norbert-Jean Mahé	Bugatti Type 44	Jean Desvignes	Rank 9
1939	TASO Mathieson	Talbot 150SS Figoni	Philippe de Massa	failure	malfunction
1949	Norbert-Jean Mahé	Simca Huit	Roger Crovetto	Rank 14
1950	Norbert-Jean Mahé	Simca Huit	Sacha Gordine	failure	accident
1951	Norbert-Jean Mahé	Ferrari 212 export	Jacques Péron	Rank 9
1952	Norbert-Jean Mahé	Simca-Gordini TMM	José Scaron	failure	water pump
1953	Ets. Fiat Degrada	Fiat 8V	Giovanni Lurani	failure	ignition

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1953	Ets. Fiat Degrada	Fiat 8V	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF

Web links

Commons : Norbert-Jean Mahé  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Norbert-Jean Mahé at 24h-en-piste
• Norbert-Jean Mahé at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 10-hour race at Spa 1934
2. ^ Grand Prix de la Marne 1935
3. ^ 3-hour race of Marseille 1936