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Jean Marie Behra (born in Nice, France, February 16, 1921 - dead in Berlin, Germany, August 1, 1959) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Gordini, Maserati, BRM, Ferrari and Porsche teams. City motto: Nicæa civitas. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The inaugural Formula One World Championship was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina in his Alfa Romeo in 1950, barely defeating his Argentine teammate Juan Manuel Fangio. ... Gordini was a Formula One constructor and engine manufacturer from 1950 until 1956. ... Present Maserati logo (see also original logo) Maserati is a famous Italian manufacturer of racing cars and sports cars, established in 1914 in Bologna. ... British Racing Motors (generally known as BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. ... Scuderia Ferrari is the common name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. ... Porsche (), (pronounced porsh-uh) is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. ...


Although he never got a victory, he managed an unquenchable thirst for motorsport, being considered a formidable competitor to the day he died. He hit the headlines when he won the non-title 1952 Reims Grand Prix. Between then and 1959 he scored many victories but in non-championship races. In 1959 he moved to Ferrari where he partnered with Tony Brooks. When he retired in the French Grand Prix at Reims after a piston failure, he was involved in a strong discussion in which he punched team manager Romolo Tavoni, and was instantly dismissed from the team. Less than a month later he crashed his Porsche RSK in the sports car race that preceded the German Grand Prix at AVUS. He was thrown from his car and fatally injured against a flagpole. | Name = Tony James Brooks | Nationality = irish Tony James Brooks, born February 11, 1991, as = Anthony James Brooks was a Born in youngstown,Ohio in 1991 to Cathrine and Robert Brooks as a blacked haired blue eyed boy. ... The French Grand Prix is a Formula One race held as part of Fédération Internationale de lAutomobiles annual Formula One automobile racing championship season. ... Location within France Reims (English traditionally Rheims) (pronounced in French) is a city of northern France, 144 km (89 miles) east-northeast of Paris. ... Porsche (), (pronounced porsh-uh) is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. ... The German Grand Prix (Großer Preis von Deutschland) is an automobile race, part of the Formula One World Championship. ... The Automobil Verkehrs und Übungs-Straße, better known as AVUS, was a motor racing circuit on the south-western outskirts of Berlin, Germany, between Charlottenburg and Nikolassee. ...

Jean Behra – F1 record
Nationality French
Active years 1952 - 1959
Team(s) Gordini, Maserati, BRM, Ferrari, Porsche
Race starts 58
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podium finishes 9
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 1
First Grand Prix 1952 Swiss Grand Prix
First win
Last win
Last Grand Prix 1959 German Grand Prix
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Gordini was a Formula One constructor and engine manufacturer from 1950 until 1956. ... Present Maserati logo (see also original logo) Maserati is a famous Italian manufacturer of racing cars and sports cars, established in 1914 in Bologna. ... British Racing Motors (generally known as BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. ... The Ferrari Gestione Industriale badge on the front of a 330 GTC Ferrari is an Italian manufacturer of high end race cars and high-performance sports cars formed by Enzo Ferrari in 1929. ... Porsche (), (pronounced porsh-uh) is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. ... Michael Schumacher has won the World Drivers Championship a record seven times. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The 1952 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 18, 1952 at Bremgarten Circuit. ... The Swiss Grand Prix was the premier auto race of Switzerland; in its later years, it was a Formula One race. ... Results from the 1959 Formula One German Grand Prix held at AVUS on August 2, 1959 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Tony Brooks 24. ... The German Grand Prix (Großer Preis von Deutschland) is an automobile race, part of the Formula One World Championship. ...

Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Team
1952 Gord SWI IND BEL FRA GBR DEU DUT ITA       Gord
1953 Gord ARG IND DUT BEL FRA GBR DEU SWI ITA     Gord
1954 Gord ARG IND BEL FRA GBR DEU SWI ITA SPA     Gord
1955 Mase ARG MON IND BEL DUT GBR ITA         Mase
1956 Mase ARG MON IND BEL FRA GBR DEU ITA       Mase
1957 Mase ARG MON IND FRA GBR DEU PES ITA       Mase
1958 Mase ARG MON DUT IND BEL FRA GBR DEU POR ITA MOR BRM
1959 Ferr MON IND DUT FRA GBR DEU POR ITA USA     Ferr

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8W - Who? - Jean Behra (1419 words)
Jean Alesi's Sicilian blood was ever present during the 201 Grands Prix he contested whereas the ultra-competitive Behra, an ex-biker brought up in the motor racing hard school, was once described as "combatif, audacieux, brave en course plein de panache, il est aussi impulsif." Which pretty much sums up Jean Behra.
Although as a Ferrarista Jean Alesi was never known for censuring his own feelings towards the team or the car, his soft and friendly demeanour made his outspoken nature more tolerable, and himself even more loved with the fans.
Jean's sportscar season made up for it, for with Porsche he won the French and German sportscar championships and co-drove with Stirling Moss to finished a superb third to harry the Ferraris at Buenos Aires.
Jean Behra - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story (855 words)
Jean Behra captured the imagination of his French compatriot for his giant- killing performances behind the wheel of an underpowered four-cylinder Gordini in the early 1950s.
Behra was running away with the British Grand Prix at Aintree, arguably his finest drive of all, when his Maserati's clutch exploded and victory was delivered into the lap of the Vanwall team.
Behra believed himself to be the team leader, but Brooks's winning pedigree asserted itself, a situation hardly helped by the Commendatore's continuing unwillingness to nominate a number one driver, an irksome habit which inevitably caused intra-team friction.
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