Raymond Pierre Sommer was a French motor racing driver.
10 Facts About Raymond Sommer
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Raymond Sommer raced both before and after WWII with some success, particularly in endurance racing.
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Raymond Sommer won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in both 1932 and 1933, and although he did not reach the finishing line in any subsequent appearance at the Le Mans, he did lead each event until 1938.
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Raymond Sommer won the French Grand Prix in 1936, but the event that year was run as a sports car race.
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Raymond Sommer was killed toward the end of 1950, when his car overturned during a race at the Circuit de Cadours.
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Raymond Sommer was born in Mouzon, in the Ardennes departement of France, into a wealthy Sedan carpet-making family.
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Raymond Sommer led every race until 1938, only to suffer a mechanical failure, once when 12 laps in the lead.
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Raymond Sommer traveled to Long Island, New York, to compete in the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup where he finished fourth behind the winner, Nuvolari.
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Raymond Sommer turned to sports cars once more, and in 1936 he won the French Grand Prix with Jean-Pierre Wimille, and the Spa 24 Hours endurance race with co-driver Francesco Severi.
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In 1950, the Formula One World Championship began and Raymond Sommer drove in two Grand Prix races for Ferrari and three in a privately entered Talbot-Lago, retiring in all but one.