Pierre Flahault

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Pierre Flahault ( April 30, 1921 - March 11, 2016 ) was a French racing car driver .

Career in motorsport

In the 1950s there was a group of French racing drivers who mainly drove the small-displacement racing cars from Deutsch & Bonnet , Panhard and Monopole . These included Paul Armagnac , Gérard Laureau , Jean-Claude Vidilles , Pierre Hémard , Jean Laroche , Rémy Radix , the brothers Pierre and Robert Chancel and Pierre Flahault.

Flahault had already appeared as a driver shortly after the end of the Second World War . He finished sixth at the 1947 Grand Prix des Frontières in a Fiat 508S , just under four minutes behind the winner Yves Giraud-Cabantous .

In 1949 he made his debut at the side of André Simon at the Le Mans 24-hour race , but retired prematurely after an engine failure on the Delahaye 175S . In 1953 he became one of the regular drivers at Monopole and competed primarily with Pierre Hémard as a partner. His best placement at Le Mans was 13th in 1954 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1949 FranceFrance Charles Pozzi Delahaye 175S FranceFrance André Simon failure Engine failure
1950 FranceFrance Ecurie Lutetia Delahaye 175S FranceFrance Charles Pozzi Disqualified
1953 FranceFrance Ets. Monopolies Monopoles X84 FranceFrance Eugène Dussous failure Engine failure
1954 FranceFranceEts. Monopolies Monopoles X84 FranceFrance Pierre Hemard Rank 13
1955 FranceFrance Société Monopole Monopoles X88 FranceFrance Pierre Hemard failure accident
1956 FranceFrance Automobiles Panhard Monopoles X89 FranceFrance Pierre Hemard failure Engine failure
1957 FranceFrance Equipe Monopole Course Monopole X88 Coupe FranceFrance Robert Chancel Rank 20

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 Monopolies Monopoles X84 United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF
1954 Monopolies Monopoles X84 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
13
1955 Monopolies Monopoles X88 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR
DNF
1957 Monopolies Monopoles X88 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM SwedenSweden KRI VenezuelaVenezuela CAR
20th

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

  1. ↑ driverdb.com , accessed March 5, 2017
  2. ^ Grand Prix des Frontières 1947
personal data
SURNAME Flahault, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1921
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2016