Guy Mairesse
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{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters | check | ignoreblank = y | unknown = Template:Main other | preview = Page using Template:Infobox F1 driver with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | embed | child | subbox | name | Name | image | Image | image_size | upright | image_upright | alt | caption | birth_name | birth_date | birth_place | death_date | death_place | relations | relatives | nationality | Nationality | years | Years | teams | Teams | Team(s) | team | Team | engines | Engines | current_team | current team | Current team | 2025 Team | 2026 Team | car_number | car number | Car number | races | Races | championships | Championships | wins | Wins | podiums | Podiums | points | Points | poles | Poles | fastest_laps | fastest laps | Fastest laps | first_race | first race | First race | first_win | first win | First win | last_win | last win | Last win | last_race | last race | Last race | last_position | last position | Last position | last_season | last season | Last season | bf1_years | bf1 years | BF1 Years | bf1_races | bf1 races | BF1 Races | bf1_championships | bf1 championships | BF1 Championships | bf1_wins | bf1 wins | BF1 Wins | bf1_podiums | bf1 podiums | BF1 Podiums | bf1_points | bf1 points | BF1 Points | bf1_poles | bf1 poles | BF1 Poles | bf1_fastest_laps | bf1 fastest laps | BF1 Fastest laps | signature | signature_size | signature alt | signature_alt | website | module | module1 | module2 | module3 | module4 | module5 | record template1 | record template2 | record template3 | record template4 | record template5 | career template1 | career template2 | career template3 | career template4 | career template5 | updated | Updated }} Guy Mairesse (10 August 1910 – 24 April 1954)<ref name ="ReferenceA">Template:Cite book</ref> was a French racing driver. He participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 3 September 1950. He scored no championship points.
Mairesse built a haulage business during the interwar period,<ref name ="ReferenceB">Template:Cite book</ref> and became interested in motor sport in 1946 through his friendship with Le Mans driver, Paul Vallée.<ref name ="ReferenceB"/> He won the Lyon-Charbonnières Rally in 1947<ref name ="ReferenceB"/> and then purchased a Delahaye from Vallée for 1948, with which he was victorious at Chimay.<ref name ="ReferenceB"/>
In 1949 Mairesse joined Vallée's team, Ecurie France, to race the Talbot-Lago and took fourth place at Pau and fifth at Albi.<ref name ="ReferenceB"/> In 1950 he finished second at Le Mans with Pierre Meyrat using a single seat Talbot.<ref name ="ReferenceB"/> Towards the end of that season the Vallée team closed and Mairesse purchased the Le Mans car and a Talbot-Lago T26C, which he used to enter the 1950 Italian Grand Prix, from which he retired, and the Swiss and French Grands Prix in 1951, finishing 11 laps down and "not classified" on both occasions.<ref name ="ReferenceA"/> Thereafter his business commitments curtailed his involvement in racing and he sold his cars in 1952 appearing infrequently in other owners' machinery.<ref name ="ReferenceB"/>
Mairesse was killed in practice for the Coupe de Paris at Montlhéry in 1954, when he swerved to avoid another car and crashed into a concrete wall.Template:Citation needed
Racing record
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | WDC | Pts |
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| 1950 | Guy Mairesse | Talbot-Lago T26C | Talbot 23CV 4.5 L6 | GBR | MON | 500 | SUI | BEL | FRA | ITA Template:Small |
NC | 0 | |
| 1951 | Yves Giraud-Cabantous | Talbot-Lago T26C | Talbot 23CV 4.5 L6 | SUI Template:Small |
500 | BEL | FRA Template:Small |
GBR | GER | ITA | ESP | NC | 0 |
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