Roger Dubos

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Roger Dubos had a fatal accident in the racing version of an Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV

Roger Jean Charles Dubos (born October 16, 1946 in Tarbes , † July 21, 1973 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps ) was a French racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Roger Dubos was an amateur racing driver and, by profession, manager of a racing school at the Circuit d'Albi . Dubos was the Belgian racer Christine Beckers engaged , he denied to the common race. In 1973 the couple succeeded with sponsorship from Total Belgium to set up the financing for a sports car world championship season . The emergency vehicle was a Chevron B21 with a 1.8-liter Ford engine for the 2-liter class.

He had his first race car at the 4-hour race of Le Mans, which is not part of any championship . The Appreciation won Gijs van Lennep and Herbert Müller on a plant - Porsche Carrera RSR . Beckers and Dubos finished the race in second place in the 2-liter class, 4 laps behind class winners Raymond Touroul and Jean-Pierre Rouget in a Porsche 910 . The duo finished ninth overall in the 1000 km race in Spa-Francorchamps , a result that again corresponded to second place in the 2-liter class.

At the 24 Hours of Le Mans , Beckers and Dubos were joined by Pierre Pagani . A defective injection pump thwarted a finish. After finishing eighth in the Trophée d'Auvergne , he received the first contract of his career. Autodelta signed him for a start in the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race .

Death at the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race

On July 21, 1973 Roger Dubos had a fatal accident in Spa . In the seventh hour of the race, at 11 p.m. , Hans-Peter Joisten , who was in the lead in a BMW 3.0 CSL , tried to lap two Group 1 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTVs in front of him ; at the helm Roger Dubos and Claude Ballot-Léna . After Joisten had passed Dubos in the Malmedy section, he lost control of his vehicle on the wet road. The BMW crashed into the boundary on the right and was thrown back into the middle of the road. Dubos could no longer evade and hit the BMW at full speed at the height of the driver's door. Both drivers died on the spot. Ballot-Léna, who had already been lapped by Joisten, also crashed into the BMW wreck, but was able to get out of his Alfa Romeo unharmed. He tried to help his two fellow drivers; but in vain.

When the consequences of the accident became known, Christine Beckers, who shared the wheel of an Opel Commodore GS with Patrick Nève , gave up the race immediately. When Massimo Larini also had a serious accident a little later , Autodelta withdrew all the remaining cars. The Italian died in a hospital seven days later. The tragic accidents led to the end of the Spa circuit in its previous form.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1973 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Blancpain Total Dinitrol Chevron B21 / 23 BelgiumBelgium Christine Beckers FranceFrance Pierre Pagani failure Injection pump

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 4 Hours of Le Mans 1973
  2. ^ 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps 1973
personal data
SURNAME Dubos, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dubos, Roger Jean Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarbes
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1973
Place of death Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps