Panhard VM5
The Panhard VM5 was a sports car that was built by Panhard & Levassor in France in 1955 .
Development history
The VM5 was developed in the spring of 1955 and was intended to replace the X88 as a service car for the 24-hour race at Le Mans . He had a body mounted on a tubular space frame. All four wheels were hung individually. The cockpit position was in the middle of the car; unusual for a racing car from the 1950s. The body was pulled very far back and thus ensured the highest possible top speed on the long straights at Le Mans. The VM5 was powered by a 0.85-liter 2-cylinder boxer engine .
Racing history
The VM5 was only driven once in the race. When 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1955 while chassis were reported. The car with the starting number 50 was driven by Pierre and Robert Chancel . The number 51 was driven by René Cotton and André Beaulieux . Both cars did not finish. In the car of the Chancel brothers, the fuel pump cut out in the eleventh hour of the race. Cotton and Beaulieux had a gearbox failure two hours later.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rear of the VM5
- ↑ Side view of the VM5 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Le Mans 1955
