Tour de France for automobiles 1962
The 1962 Tour de France for automobiles was a stage race for automobiles from September 15 to 23 in France and Belgium .
The race
For the first time since the race was reintroduced in 1951 , the Tour Auto was not started in Nice , but in Rouen . The stage destinations of the five sections were Tours , Toulouse , Nice, the Belgian Spa and Reims , where the tour ended on September 23. 116 participants took up the 5979 km race, 46 of them reached the finish. 14 special stages had to be completed, including mountain and circuit races .
Ferrari had developed a new Gran Tursimo racing car , the Ferrari 250 GTO , which was also to become the defining racing car in the GT class on the Tour. But the fastest GTO, with Jo Schlesser at the wheel and former ski racer Henri Oreiller as co-driver, lost 54 minutes in a slip on the special stage in Le Mans . The duo had to be content with second place in the overall standings. The two GTOs of Carlo-Maria Abate and Edgar Berney failed due to technical defects and Lucien Bianchi lost his chance to win after an accident with a milk truck. André Simon celebrated a surprise victory in his Ferrari 250 GT . It was the seventh overall victory in a row for a Ferrari 250GT.
In the touring car class, Bernard Consten led a phalanx of four Jaguar Mark IIs and celebrated his third overall victory in a row. The two British ladies Rosemary Smith and Rosemary Sears won the women's touring car class on a Sunbeam Rapier and finished twelfth in the overall classification. No women's team was included in the GT class.
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | vehicle | Travel time | ||
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1 | GT | 152 |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB | |||
2 | GT | 156 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
3 | GT | 150 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
4th | GT | 153 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
5 | GT | 155 |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB | |||
6th | GT | 125 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ | ||||
7th | GT | 151 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
8th | GT | 116 |
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Alpine A108 | ||||
9 | GT |
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Porsche 356 Super 90 | |||||
10 | GT | 101 |
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DB HBR | ||||
11 | GT | 129 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS | ||||
12 | GT |
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Porsche 356B | |||||
13 | GT |
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Alpine 106 | |||||
14th | GT |
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Porsche 356B | |||||
15th | GT |
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Alpine A108 | |||||
16 | GT |
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DKW F11 Junior | |||||
17th | GT |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SVZ | |||||
18th | T | 94 |
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Jaguar Mk.II | ||||
19th | T | 95 |
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Jaguar Mk.II | ||||
20th | T | 90 |
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Jaguar Mk.II | ||||
21st | T |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI | |||||
22nd | T | 74 |
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Sunbeam Talbot Rapier | ||||
23 | T | 82 |
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Volvo 122S | ||||
24 | T |
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Sunbeam Talbot | |||||
25th | T | 81 |
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Volvo 122 | ||||
26th | T | 88 |
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Citroën DS19 | ||||
27 | T | 40 |
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Fiat-Abarth 850TC | ||||
28 | T | 76 |
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Sunbeam Talbot Rapier | ||||
29 | T |
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Fiat Abarth | |||||
30th | T |
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Fiat Abarth | |||||
31 | T |
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Fiat 1500 | |||||
32 | T | 37 |
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Renault 1093 | ||||
33 | T | 31 |
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Renault 1093 | ||||
34 | T |
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Renault 1093 | |||||
35 | T |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI | |||||
36 | T |
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BMW 700S | |||||
37 | T |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI | |||||
38 | T |
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Mini Cooper | |||||
39 | T |
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Mini Cooper | |||||
40 | T |
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Renault 1093 | |||||
41 | T |
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NSU Prince | |||||
42 | T |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI | |||||
43 | T | 36 |
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Renault 1093 | ||||
44 | T |
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Vauxhall Victor | |||||
45 | T |
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Simca 1000 | |||||
Disqualified | ||||||||
46 |
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Porsche | ||||||
Failed | ||||||||
47 |
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BMW 700S | ||||||
48 | GT |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Zagato | |||||
49 |
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jaguar | ||||||
50 | T |
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Jaguar Mk.II | |||||
51 | T |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Zagato | |||||
52 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI | ||||||
53 | GT |
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Abarth | |||||
54 | GT |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Zagato | |||||
55 |
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Porsche 695GS Carrera Abarth | ||||||
56 | T |
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Citroën DS19 | |||||
57 | T |
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Jaguar MK.II | |||||
58 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI | ||||||
59 |
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jaguar | ||||||
60 | T | 21st |
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DKW Junior | ||||
61 | T | 91 |
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Jaguar MK.II | ||||
62 | T |
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Jaguar MK.II | |||||
63 | GT | 146 |
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AC Ace | ||||
64 | GT | 148 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
65 | GT | 154 |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB | |||
66 | GT | 157 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
67 | GT | 158 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
68 | GT | 160 |
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Ferrari 250 GTO | |||
69 | GT | 161 |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB | |||
70 | GT | 162 |
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Jaguar E-Type | ||||
71 | T |
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BMW 700 | |||||
72 | T |
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Citroën DS19 | |||||
73 |
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ | ||||||
74 |
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jaguar | ||||||
75 | GT |
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Abarth 114 | |||||
76 | T |
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Citroën DS19 | |||||
77 | T |
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Porsche 356 Carrera Abarth | |||||
78 |
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DB HBR5 | ||||||
79 | T | 35 |
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Renault 1093 | ||||
80 | T | 57 |
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Mini Cooper | ||||
81 | GT | 142 |
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Sunbeam Alpine | ||||
82 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
83 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
84 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
85 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
86 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
87 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
88 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
89 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
90 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
91 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
92 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
93 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
94 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
95 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
96 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
97 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
98 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
99 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
100 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
101 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
102 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
103 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
104 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
105 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
106 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
107 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
108 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
109 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
110 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
111 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
112 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
113 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
114 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
115 | XXX | XXX | ||||||
116 | XXX | XXX |
XXX in the table stands for participant unknown
Only in the entry list
No further reports are known for this race.
Class winner
class | driver | driver | vehicle | Placement in the overall ranking |
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GT |
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB | Overall victory |
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Jaguar MK.II | Rank 18 |
Racing data
- Registered: 116
- Started: 116
- Rated: 46
- Race classes: 2
- Spectator: unknown
- Weather on race day: unknown
- Route length: unknown
- Driving time of the winning team: unknown
- Overall laps of the winning team: none
- Total distance of the winning team: 5979,000 km
- Winner's average: unknown
- Pole position: none
- Fastest race lap: none
- Racing series: did not belong to any racing series