Pierre Monneret
Pierre Monneret ( born January 12, 1931 † 1 March 2010) was a French motorcycle racer.
Pierre Monneret was more times French motorcycle road champion and a son of Georges Monneret, one of the most successful French motorcycle pilots in history. His half-brother Philippe Monneret was also motorcycle racer.
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Career
Pierre Monneret debuted at the 350 cc Grand Prix of France in 1953, which took place in Rouen -les- Essarts on AJS in the Motorcycle World Championship. He reached in this race place behind the Moto Guzzi factory pilots and eventual champion Fergus Anderson and was the first Frenchman who succeeded a podium finish in a solo race in the Motorcycle World Championship.
In the following season Monneret started at his home Grand Prix, this time at the Circuit de Reims - Gueux, at the 350ern on a plant - AJS and in the half-liter four-cylinder class on a factory racer from the Italian manufacturer Gilera. Monneret won the race in the 350 cc class, and thus became the first French Grand Prix winner in the history of the Motorcycle World Championship. A few hours later he siegrte also the 500cc race of his fellow Alfredo Milani, after a long time in the lead -lying Geoff Duke was eliminated.
1955 Monneret was second in the 500cc race in Belgium on his only World Championship Grand Prix of the year. In 1956, the Frenchman played four Grands Prix. He was third in both the 350s as well as the 500cc race at Spa- Francorchamps, finishing at the half-liter barrels of West Germany and the Nations Grand Prix in Monza also rank three. These rankings brought him to the fourth place in the final standings of the half-liter class, the best World Cup result of his career.
At the end of season 1956 ended Pierre Monneret, at the age of only 25 years, his racing career and devoted himself to the company of his family, an establishment for the manufacture of cardboard boxes. The Frenchman died on 1 March 2010 at the age of 79 years.
In his career Monneret played a total of eight World Cup races he all finished in the top three, two of them as the winner.
Records
- On March 8 In 1951 Pierre Monneret, along with his father George and his brother Jean on a Puch 125 TS a world record. The three completed the distance of 40,000 km, which is equivalent to a trip around the world in 24 days, 21 hours and 43 minutes.
- On 15 August of the same year improved Pierre and Georges Monneret, along with Robert Moury and Johann Weingartmann on Puch 125 TFS the world record for the distance covered in 24 hours on a motorcycle distance to 2991 km.
Statistics in the Motorcycle World Championship
Sport car
After the end of his time as a motorcycle racer Monneret went in sportscar racing at the start. In 1961 he was at the Coupe de Paris, a sports car race at the Autodrome de Linas- Montlhery second behind Henri Oreiller. Four times he was in the 24- hour race at Le Mans at the start, but never saw the checkered flag.
Le Mans results
Trivia
- To his playing days came Pierre Monneret few times against his father Georges. In a race, the two crossed in such a tight distance to the finish line that the timing could not tell the difference and father and son were ex aequo counted.
- When Pierre Monneret 1953 French 350- cc champion, his father Georges won 45 - round title in the 250 cc class.