Eugène Martin Explained

Eugène Martin
Nationality: French
Birth Date:24 March 1915
Team(S):Talbot-Lago
Races:2
Championships:0
Wins:0
Podiums:0
Points:0
Poles:0
Fastest Laps:0
First Race:1950 British Grand Prix
Last Race:1950 Swiss Grand Prix

Eugène Martin (March 24, 1915 in Suresnes – October 12, 2006 in Aytre) was a racing driver from France. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on May 13, 1950. He scored no championship points.

Martin is better known for his participation in several of the prewar grands prix. He won the first Grand Prix Aix les Bains Circuit du Lac in 1949 with a Jicey-BMW[1] developed by Jean Caillas.[2]

In the 1950s he embarked on a brief career as an auto-maker, working at the Paris-based garage he owned with his father to produce the Martin-Spéciale. The car was exhibited at the 1952 Paris Motor Show but never progressed to series production.

He was one of the last surviving drivers from that era until his death at a hospital near his home in La Rochelle in 2006.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20120712013254/http://img.directindustry.fr/pdf/repository_di/7922/516_4b.jpg Article about Jicey the French race car designer
  2. Web site: The Jicey of Jean Caillas has been found !. jicey.com. 28 June 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060528210336/http://www.jicey.com/pdf/JICEY%20NEWS%20FR-GB%202002.pdf. 28 May 2006.
  3. Web site: [F1] Deces d'Eugene Martin]. Google Groups. 28 June 2017. 29 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200529031730/https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#ac1ed525371db986. dead.