24 h Le Mans 20.6.1937

24 h Le Mans

Spectators: 50 000 Started: 48 Classified: 17 Race: 13,492 km = 3287,938 km AVG: 136,997 km/h FL: Jean-Pierre Wimille 2 Bugatti T57S 5:13,000 155,179 km/h Pos. NO Driver / Nationality Car Entrant Laps Time/Retired Group Practice
Classified: 1. 2 Jean-Pierre Wimille / F Bugatti T57S Bugatti 1. 5000 Robert Benoist / F 2. 14 Joseph Paul / F Delahaye 135S Mongin / F 3. 10 René Dreyfus / USA Delahaye 135S Delahaye 1. 3000 Henri Stoffel / F 4. 19 J. de Valence / F Delage D.6 Louis Gérard / F 5. 37 J. M. Skeffington / GB Aston Martin Ulster 1. 1500 R. C. Murton-Neale / GB 6. 33 Graff Orssich / D Adler Trumpf Adler 1. 2000 R. Sauerwein / D 7. 26 Pujol / F Peugeot DS402 Darl'Mat Darl'Mat M. Contet / F 8. 25 Charles de Cortanze / F Peugeot DS402 Darl'Mat Darl'Mat Serre / F 9. 34 Otto Löhr / D Adler Trumpf Adler DNS - von Hanstein / D P. von Guilleaume 10. 27 D. Porthault / F Peugeot DS402 Darl'Mat Darl'Mat Rigal / F 11. 31 Mortimer Morris-Goodall / GB Aston Martin Speed Model R. P. Hitchens / GB 12. 48 Just-Emile Vernet / F Simca - Fiat 1. 751-1000 Mme Largeot / F 13. 36 A. C. Scott / GB HRG Le Mans Model E. A. Halford / GB 14. 42 M. K. H. Bilney / GB Ford Ten GB Miss Joan Richmond / GB 15. 49 K. Calaraseano Adler Trumpf Junior Adler Lesbros 16. 54 Miss Dorothy Stanley-Turrier MG Midget PB Miss Joan Riddell / GB 17. 59 J. Viale / F Simca Cinq - Fiat 1. <750 Albert Alin / F Did not finish: 11 Laury Schell Delahaye 193 Oil presure Robert Carriére / F 41 Yves Giraud-Cabantous / F Chenard & Walcker 151 Rigoulet 9 Louis Villeneuve / F Delahaye 135S 147 Pit fire Vagniez / F 46 Amedée Gordini / F Simca - Fiat Ballila 137 P. Maillard-Brune 32 E. Hertzberger Aston Martin 136 A. Debille / F 1 Roger Labric / F Bugatti T57S Bugatti 130 Pierre Veyron / F 50 Marjorie Eccles / GB Singer Nine 121 Ignition Lord Freddie Clifford / GB DNS - Roy Eccles / GB 8 Parguel Delahaye 100 C. Brunet / F 18 dErdez de Saugé Bugatti 99 Léoz 53 Jacques Savoye / F Singer Nine 93 Ignition Pierre Pichard / F 52 G. H. Boughton / GB Singer Nine 91 Ignition F. H. Lye 58 Adrien Alin / F Simca Cinq - Fiat 77 Querzola / F 57 Charles Dodson / GB Austin Seven 'Grasshopper' 74 Engine H. L. Hadley / GB 51 Norman Black / GB Singer Nine 72 Ignition John Donald Barnes / GB 55 Mrs Kaye Petre / GB Austin Seven 'Grasshopper' 72 Engine G. Mangan / GB 45 Blot Simca 55 Ferrand 29 H. J. Aldington / GB Frazer Nash BMW 43 Timing gear A. F. P. Fane / GB 35 Mme Anne Itier / F Adler Trumpf Adler 40 von Hanstein / D 15 Seylair / F Delahaye 36 Benazet / F 40 M. Contet / F Chenard & Walcker 32 Roux / F 56 Charles Goodacre / GB Austin Seven 'Grasshopper' 32 Out of fuel C. D. Buckley / GB 3 Johnny Hindmarsh / GB Lagonda 30 Valves Charles Brackenbury / GB 4 Raymond Sommer / F Alfa Romeo 11 B. Guidotti / I 39 Jean Trévoux / F Riley Sprite 11 Cracked cylind Guy Lapchin / F 7 Embiricos Talbot 9 Accident "Raph" / F 12 Eugéne Chaboud / F Delahaye 9 Accident Jean Trémoulet / F 20 René Kippeurt / GB Bugatti 8 Fatal accident Poulain / F 28 D. H. Murray / GB Frazer Nash BMW 85,035 8 Fatal accident Pat Fairfield 30 Roth / D BMW 8 Accident Richter / D 38 Raoul Forestier / F Riley 8 Accident Caron 21 Luigi Chinetti / USA Talbot 7 Engine Louis Chiron / MC In entry list only: - Audeaux Rallye Breillet - Oliver Bertram / GB Bentley Lycettt E. W. W. Pacey / GB - xxx Aston Martin M. Collier - Tazio Nuvolari / I Alfa Romeo Luigi Chinetti / USA - J. M. Dixon / GB Alfa Romeo - Poulain / F Bugatti dErdez de Saugé - Zandardi Simca - Nazarro Simca Robert / F