Yves Giraud-Cabantous

Yves Giraud-Cabantous

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1950
Last start:	1953 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1950-1951 Talbot  1952-1953 HWM
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-14. ( 1950 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 13 - - -
World Cup points :	5
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Yves Aristide Marius Giraud-Cabantous (born October 8, 1904 in Saint-Gaudens , † March 30, 1973 in Paris ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Although Yves Giraud-Cabantous competed in races for 30 years, he was never able to reach the absolute top. To a large extent, it was because he often had to start on inferior equipment. In 1925 he began his racing career on a Salmson , with which he gained experience in the first few years mainly in smaller French races. In the 1930s, he focused on sports car racing and came second in the 1938 Le Mans 24-hour race .

After the war he returned to the racetracks on Talbot , his greatest success being winning the Grand Prix de Paris in 1948 . In the first few years of the World Automobile Championship he made it into the points twice, with fourth place at the British Grand Prix in 1950 being his best result. In 1952 and 1953 he competed sporadically in Formula 1 races at HWM , and until 1955 he competed in Le Mans.

Between 1926 and 1932, his company Yves Giraud-Cabantous produced 28 automobiles. After retiring from racing, he built a transport company that he ran until his death in 1973.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Automobiles Talbot-Darracq	Talbot-Lago T26C-DA	Talbot 4.5 L6	4th	-	-	-	-	-	3	14th
1951	Yves Giraud Cabantous	Talbot-Lago T26 C	Talbot 4.5 L6	6th	-	-	-	-	-	2	18th
1952	HW Motors	HWM 52	Alta 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1953	HW Motors	HWM 53	Alta 2.0 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				13	-	-	-	-	-	5

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1950
	4th			DNF	DNF	8th
1951
	DNF		5	7th		DNF	8th	DNF
1952
				10
1953
					13				15th

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	WD	withdrawn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
1931	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Caban specials	Roger Labric	failure	Engine failure
1932	Roger Labric	Caban specials	Roger Labric	Rank 9
1937	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Chenard & Walcker	Charles Rigoulot	failure	accident
1938	Gaston Serraud	Delahaye 135CS	Gaston Serraud	Rank 2
1939	Ecurie Francia	Delahaye 135CS	Eugène Chaboud	failure	malfunction
1949	Louis Villeneuve	Delahaye 135CS	Marius Chanal	failure	Gearbox damage
1952	Donald Healey	Nash Healey	Pierre Veyron	failure	Gearbox damage
1953	Nash Healey Inc.	Nash Healey Sports	Pierre Veyron	failure	no oil pressure
1954	Automobiles VP	VP 166R	Just-Émile Vernet	failure	accident
1955	Automobiles VP	VP 166R	Yves Lesur	failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Nash-Healey	Nash-Healey Sports	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF
1954	Vernet et Pairard	VP 166R	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
						DNF
1955	Vernet et Pairard	VP 166R	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
						DNF

Web links

Commons : Yves Giraud-Cabantous  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Career of Yves Giraud-Cabantous on gpracing.net192.com ( Memento from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Leif Snellman: Yves Aristide Marius Giraud-Cabantous (F). www.kolumbus.fi, February 25, 2020, accessed on March 28, 2020 (English). 
• Yves Aristide Marius Giraud-Cabantous. www.24h-en-piste.com, accessed on March 28, 2020 (French). 
• Yves Giraud-Cabantous in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 231. (English)