Roger Loyer

Roger Loyer

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1954 Grand Prix of Argentina
Last start:	1954 Grand Prix of Argentina
Constructors
1954  Equipe Gordini
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Roger Loyer (born August 5, 1907 , † March 24, 1988 ) was a French automobile and motorcycle racing driver .

Career

Roger Loyer had already competed successfully in motorcycle races when he started racing after the Second World War . In 1937 he won the French Grand Prix for motorcycles in the 250 cm³ class and in 1938 on a Velocette in the 350 cm³ class. This season he finished fourth in the European Championship in this displacement category behind Ted Mellors (Velocette), “Crasher” White ( Norton ) and Siegfried Wünsche ( DKW ) .

After the war, he drove a Cisitalia D46 between 1957 and 1948 and joined the Gordini works team in 1950 to drive their Formula 2 racing cars at national events in France.

Loyer competed in sports car races for Gordini until the mid-1950s and won the Coupe du Salon in Montlhéry in 1953 .

He entered his only race in the automobile world championship in 1954 , when he drove the Grand Prix of Argentina in Buenos Aires . With the Gordini Type 16 he had to give up the race prematurely after a leak in the oil tank.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1954	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1954
	DNF

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	WD	withdrawn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
1938	Georges Monneret	Delahaye 135CS	Georges Monneret	failure	fuel pump
1939	Ecurie Walter Watney	Delage Type D 6-3 liters	Armand Hug	failure	accident
1950	Automobiles Gordini	Gordini T15S	Jean Behra	failure	ignition
1952	Automobiles Gordini	Gordini T15S	Charles de Clareur	failure	Clutch damage
1953	Capt. Marceau Crespin	Gordini T15S	André Guelfi	failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Marceau Crespin	Gordini T15S	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF
1954	Gordini	Gordini T15S	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
			DNF

literature

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60s Formula I. Könemann, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0 .
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

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