François Picard
François Picard ( born April 26, 1921 in Villefranche -sur -Saône, † April 29, 1996 in Nice ) was a French racing driver.
Picard began in 1949 with a Renault 4CV car to go racing. At the beginning of the 1950s, he replaced the Renault by a Porsche, with whom he won a 1952 sports car race in Agadir. In 1953, Picard was a well-known Ferrari privateer, who drove mainly race in France and North Africa. 1954 was his compatriot Charles Pozzi his partner. The duo won at the 12 - hour race at Reims and Hyères.
1955 Picard denied his race on a Ferrari 500 Monza and finished second in the Coupe de Paris and third in the Grand Prix of Agadir and the 1000 km race from Paris.
In 1958 he drove the only single-seater race of his career. At the Grand Prix of Morocco, he went with a Cooper T43, which was reported by Rob Walker, of 24 start on the grid. In this Formula 1 World Championship race he had a serious accident when he crashed into the rotating race car of the Belgian Olivier Gendebien. Picard suffered serious injuries while. The Frenchman was fully recovered his racing career but was too late.