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1939 24 Hours of Le Mans — Wikipedia (en)

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The 1939 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 16th Grand Prix of Endurance. It took place at Circuit de la Sarthe on 17 and 18 June 1939. The race was won by a supercharged Bugatti Type 57, driver by works drivers Jean-Pierre Wimille and Pierre Veyron, setting a new distance record. The race proved to be an even contest between the major French marques of Delahaye, Talbot, Bugatti and the smaller-engined Delage. Soon after the start, Louis Gérard got to the front in his Delage and held off all the others for 20 hours. In the evening and into the night, it was Robert Mazaud in his Delahaye and 2-time winner Luigi Chinetti in a Talbot that provided an exciting 3-way tussle for the lead, that ended when Mazaud's engine caught fire around 2am, and Mathieson had a tyre blow out that planted the Chinetti Talbot into the Tertre Rouge sandbank at breakfast time. The Bugatti had been maintaining a watching brief on these cars in fourth and gradually picked up its speed. When the Delage pitted with a misfiring engine with just over 3 hours to go, Wimille was able to make up the 2-lap deficit, sweep past into the lead, and then ease back to take the victory ahead of Gérard in the ailing Delage. Two brand new Lagonda V12s took third and fourth after a reliable run in their first race. In a event run in good weather throughout, Mazaud had set a new lap rerecord, and four of the six class-winners set new distance records. The BMW works team had dominated their 2-litre class, running amongst the bigger 3-litre cars. Once again Amédée Gordini and José Scaron had shown great pace in their 1100cc SIMCA, and this time reliability got them to a clear class victory, finishing 10th overall, as well as convincingly winning the Index of Performance and Biennial Cup prizes.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «1939 24 Hours of Le Mans» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
Wikidata Q216388 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216388
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