Raymond Sommer

Raymond Sommer

Infobox F1 driver
Name = Raymond Sommer
image-size = 130px
Caption = Raymond Sommer
Nationality = flagicon|France French
Years = F1|1950
Team(s) = Ferrari, works and private Talbot-Lago
Races = 5
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Points = 3
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race = 1950 Monaco Grand Prix
First win =
Last win =
Last race = 1950 Italian Grand Prix
Le Mans drivers
Years = 24hLM|1931-24hLM|1935, 24hLM|1937-24hLM|1939, 24hLM|1950
Team(s) = Private
Best Finish = 1st (24hLM|1932, 24hLM|1933)
Class Wins = 2 (24hLM|1932, 24hLM|1933)

Raymond Sommer (August 31, 1906, Mouzon, in the Ardennes "département" of France - September 10, 1950) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver.

Sommer was born into a wealthy Sedan, France carpet making family. His father, Roger, broke the Wright Brothers record for the longest flight in 1909. It was not until 1931 that Raymond started to display daredevil tendencies of his own, entering motor races in a privateer Chrysler Imperial. The following year, he won the 24 hours of Le Mans, despite having to drive over 20 hours solo after his teammate Luigi Chinetti retired ill. During the 1930s, Sommer was to dominate the French endurance classic, winning again in 1933 driving an Alfa Romeo alongside Tazio Nuvolari. He also led every race up until 1938, only to suffer a mechanical failure, once when 12 laps in the lead. Sommer traveled to Long Island, New York to compete in the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup where he finished 4th to the winner, Tazio Nuvolari.

However, his tendency to run in privately entered cars did him no favours on the Grand Prix scene, winning just one major international race, the 1936 French Grand Prix. At the time, the German manufacturers Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union were the dominant force in GP racing, together with the French Bugatti team. Sommer turned to sports cars once more, winning the Spa 24 Hours endurance race with co-driver Francesco Severi. More wins came his way including at the "Marseilles Three Hours" at Miramas, the Grand Prix de Tunisie and La Turbie hill climb competition in 1938 and 1939 with Alfa Romeo 308 until the outbreak of World War II, where he played an active part in the French Resistance movement.

Following the war, Sommer quickly returned to winning ways, claiming victory in the 1946 René Le Bègue Cup race at Saint-Cloud. At the 1947 Turin Grand Prix in Valentino Park he won the first ever Grand Prix for Enzo Ferrari as an independent constructor. The following season, Sommer switched from the Ferrari team, again for a privately owned car, this time a Talbot-Lago. In 1950, the F1 World Championship began and Sommer drove in five Grand Prix races for Talbot and BRM, retiring in all but one.

In July 1950 he won the Aix les Bains Circuit du Lac Grand-Prix with a Ferrari 166.In September 1950, he entered the Haute-Garonne Grand Prix in Cadours, France where the steering failed on his 1100 cc Cooper and the car overturned at a corner. Sommer was instantly killed, his traditional canvas helmet proving to be no use at all.

Major career wins:
*French Grand Prix 1936
*Grand Prix de Marseilles 1932, 1937, 1946
*Grand Prix de Tunisa 1937
*Grand Prix de L'U.M.F. 1935
*Gran Premio del Valentino 1947
*Madrid Grand Prix 1949
*Spa 24 Hours 1936
*Turin Grand Prix 1947
*24 hours of Le Mans 1932, 1933

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