24 h Le Mans 19.6.1938

24 h Le Mans

Practiced: 46 Started: 42 Race: 13,492 km = 3180,940 km AVG: 132,539 km/h FL: Raymond Sommer 19 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300B Touring 5:13,800 154,783 km/h Pos. NO Driver / Nationality Car Entrant Laps Time/Retired Group Practice
Classified: 1. 15 Eugéne Chaboud / F Delahaye 135S Eugéne Chaboud/Jean Trémoul 1. 5000 Jean Trémoulet / F 2. 14 G. Serraud / F Delahaye 135S G. Serraud Yves Giraud-Cabantous / F 3. 5 Jean Prenant / F Talbot Lago T150SS Jean Prenant André Morel / F 4. 10 Louis Villeneuve / F Delahaye 135S Louis Villeneuve Biolay / F 5. 24 Charles de Cortanze / F Peugeot Darl'Mat DS402 Darl'Mat 1. 2000 M. Contet / F 6. 28 Graff Orssich / D Adler Super Trumpf Adler Sauerwein / D 7. 33 Otto Löhr / D Adler Trumpf Adler 1. 1500 P. von Guilleaume 8. 46 Jacques Savoye / F Singer Nine Jacques Savoye 1. 751-1100 Pierre Savoye 9. 42 A. Debille / F Simca Huit - Fiat Amedée Gordini Guy Lapchin / F 10. 31 Peter C. T. Clark / GB HRG Le Mans Model P. T. C. Clark Marcus Chambers / GB 11. 48 Victor Camerano / F Simca Huit - Fiat Victor Camerano R. Robert / F 12. 49 C. P. Bonneau / F MG Midget PA 'Special' Ecurie Bruxelles? Mme Anne Itier / F 13. 40 Miss P. M. Fawcett / GB Morgan 4/4 Covetry Climax Miss P. M. Fawcett G. White / GB 14. 51 M. Aimé / F Simca Cinq - Fiat Amedée Gordini 1. <751 Charles Plantivaux / F 15. 52 Leduc / F Simca Cinq - Fiat Amedée Gordini Querzola / F Did not finish: 19 Raymond Sommer / F Alfa Romeo 8C 2300B Touring Alfa Corse 219 Accident, lost Clemente Biondetti / I 7 Jean Trévoux / F Talbot Jean Trévoux 159 Fire Pierre Levegh / F 8 T.A.S O. Mathieson / GB Talbot Norbert Mahé 159 DNF Lord Freddie Clifford / GB 27 R. P. Hitchens / GB Aston Martin R. P. Hitchens 150 Burnt valves Mortimer Morris-Goodall / GB 37 Amedée Gordini / F Simca Huit - Fiat Amedée Gordini 140 Oil pipe José Scaron / F 36 Pierre Ferry / F Riley Pierre Ferry 127 Gearbox Noiraux / F 43 Lévy / F Simca - Fiat 124 DNF Adrien Alin / F 38 J. Viale / F Simca Huit - Fiat Amedée Gordini 111 Tyre fire Breillet 4 Robert Carriére / F Talbot Luigi Chinetti 101 DNF Le Begue / F 23 Mme Roux / F Amilcar 'Pegase Special' 101 DNF Mme Rouvault / F 12 Monneret / F Delahaye 88 Fuel pump Roger Loyer / F 6 Rosier / F Talbot Luigi Chinetti 81 DNF Huguet / F 47 John Donald Barnes / GB Singer Nine F. S. Barnes 74 Crankshaft Tommy Wisdom / GB 45 Tramer Simca - Fiat Amedée Gordini 69 DNF Samuel 3 Philippe Etancelin / F Talbot Luigi Chinetti 66 Valve Luigi Chinetti / USA 22 Louis Gérard / F Delage Delage 58 Engine J. de Valence / F 41 Just-Emile Vernet / F Simca - Fiat Just-Emile Vernet 55 DNF Mme Largeot / F 21 Marcel Horvilleur / F Alfa Romeo 2300 'Monza' Marcel Horvilleur 53 DNF Matra / F 11 Mongin / F Delahaye 50 Fire R. Mazaud / F 50 Mrs 'Bil' Wisdom / GB MG Midget PB Miss Dorothy Stanley-Turner 48 Clutch/out of Arthur Dobson / GB 39 Molinari Simca - Fiat Just-Emile Vernet 40 DNF Sarret 29 Raoul Forestier / F Riley Raoul Forestier 30 DNF Caron 1 René Dreyfus / USA Delahaye 145 Ecurie Bleu (Larry Schell) 19 Oil pressure Louis Chiron / MC 25 Pujol / F Peugeot Darl'Mat DS402 Darl'Mat 18 DNF Rigal / F 2 Franco Comotti / I Delahaye 145 Ecurie Bleu (Larry Schell) 7 Gearbox Albert Divo / F 26 Serre / F Peugeot Darl'Mat DS402 Darl'Mat 6 DNF D. Porthault / F 34 C.H.W. Morrisson / GB Atalanta C.H.W. Morrisson 4 Rear hub Neil Watson / GB In entry list only: - xxx Alfa Romeo T.A.S.O. Mathieson - xxx Austin Austin Withdrawn - xxx Austin Austin Withdrawn - xxx Delahaye John Snow - xxx Delahaye Joseph Paul - xxx Delahaye Hans Ruesch - xxx Bugatti Roger Labric - xxx ? St. John Horsfall - xxx ? Arthur Fox - xxx ? T. H. Wisdom - xxx HRG A. C. Scott - xxx Salmson Pierre Pichard - xxx Austin Austin Withdrawn - xxx Lancia T. E. Kenny