Philippe Étancelin

Philippe Étancelin

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1950
Last start:	1952 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1950–1951  Equipe Étancelin ( Talbot ) 1952  Escuderia Bandeirantes ( Maserati )
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-18. ( 1950 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 12 - - -
World Cup points :	3
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Philippe Étancelin (born December 28, 1896 in Rouen , † October 13, 1981 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Phi-Phi, as he was called by his friends, was the prototype of a private driver. He never belonged to a works team, but competed in numerous races with his own racing cars. His career began in 1926 with a Bugatti . In 1927 he celebrated his first victory at the Grand Prix de la Marne , which was followed by more in French races in 1929. His greatest success was the 1930 French Grand Prix . He competed with Alfa Romeo , Maserati and Talbot in the 1930s with varying degrees of success.

1934 he won along with Luigi Chinetti on a Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 , the 24 Hours of Le Mans .

After the war he celebrated further successes in a Talbot , in the first Formula 1 world championship season in 1950 he achieved two fifth places. His last race, the non-World Championship Grand Prix of Rouen, he contested in 1953 at the age of 56 years and came third.

After his retirement he remained connected to the sport, he often appeared in the pits or at meetings of historic racing cars. Étancelin died in 1981 at the age of 84.

statistics

run

• 1927
  • Grand Prix de la Marne in Reims in a Bugatti T35B. winner

• 1928
  • Grand Prix of Marne in Reims in a Bugatti T35C. failure

• 1929
  • Grand Prix d'Antibes in La Garoupe in a Bugatti T35C. failure
  • Monaco Grand Prix in a Bugatti T35C. 6th place
  • Grand Prix de la Marne in Reims in a Bugatti T35C. winner
  • Spanish Grand Prix in Lasarte-San Sebastian in a Bugatti T35C. failure
  • Grand Prix du Comminges in La Baule in a Bugatti T35C. winner
  • Grand Prix de La Baule in a Bugatti T35C. winner
  • Tunisian Grand Prix at the Carthage Grand Prix Circuit in a Bugatti T35C. 4th Place

• 1949
  • Grand Prix de Pau on Talbot-Lago T26C. failure
  • Grand Prix de Paris in Monthlery on Talbot-Lago T26C. winner
  • Great Britain Grand Prix at Silverstone on Talbot-Lago T26C. 5th place
  • Grand Prix de Marseille on the Circuit de Miramas on Talbot-Lago T26C. 2nd place
  • Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps on Talbot-Lago T26C. failure
  • Swiss Grand Prix in Bern-Bremgarten on Talbot-Lago T26C. 4th Place

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Team Philippe Etancelin	Talbot-Lago T26C	Talbot 4.5 L6	4th	-	-	-	-	-	3	18th
	Automobiles Talbot-Darracq	Talbot-Lago T26C-DA	Talbot 4.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-
	Team Philippe Etancelin	Talbot-Lago T26C-DA	Talbot 4.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-
1951	Team Philippe Etancelin	Talbot-Lago T26C-DA	Talbot 4.5 L6	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1952	Escuderia Bandeirantes	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				12	-	-	-	-	-	3

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1950
	8th	DNF		DNF	DNF	5	5
1951
	10		DNF	DNF		DNF		8th
1952
				8th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1934	Luigi Chinetti	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300	Luigi Chinetti	Overall victory
1938	Luigi Chinetti	Talbot T1500 SS Coupe	Luigi Chinetti	failure	Engine failure

Web links

Commons : Philippe Étancelin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Leif Snellman: Philippe Jean-Armand "Phi-Phi" Etancelin (F). www.kolumbus.fi, November 30, 2016, accessed May 2, 2017 (English). 
• Philippe Étancelin at 24-hour-en-piste (French)
• Philippe Étancelin in the Internet Movie Database (English)