Jean Trémoulet
Jean Trémoulet (* April 12, 1909, † October 13, 1944 ) was a French auto racing driver and a member of the Resistance.
Career
Jean Trémoulet arrived late to motor sport. He was animated by his friend Eugène Chaboud, with whom he ran a car repair shop in Paris and its racing mechanic he was. In 1937, he was still relatively inexperienced, together with Chaboud the 24- hour race at Le Mans. In the race he was then involved in a mass accident.
In the ninth round, the Frenchman René Kippeurt came with his Bugatti Type 44 at 150 km / h in the passage Maison Blanche off the track. The Bugatti slide away sideways and rolled over several times. Kippeurt was thrown from the vehicle. Several cars drove on. First, the German Fritz Roth, who roamed the wreck and slipped on a field on a slope. The next was Pat Farfield, the wreck fully met with his BMW 328. Jean Trémoulet were hurled with his Delahaye 135 CS in the air as he drove over the wreckage. Even Roger Caron and Raphaël Bethenod de las Casas were involved in the accident. Kippeurt died at the accident scene and the hospital brought Pat Farfield died in the night from his injuries. Trémoulet had lacerations on his face and lost part of his left ear.
Two weeks later Trémoulet went back to the start and was together with Chaboud sixth in the Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France in Montlhery.
In 1938 he celebrated his biggest success in motorsport, when he again won at the Sarthe with Chaboud as a partner, the 24 - hour race. At the 24 - hour race at Spa -Francorchamps in the same year and the 12 - hour race in Paris he fell out. Also in the Le Mans race in 1939, he did not finish.
Resistance
During the Second World War, Trémoulet joined the Resistance. He died in a motorcycle accident in October 1944.