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This first victory was soon succeeded by a second one at the Rallye de Laval
This time they drove Auguste Veuillet bright new Carrera 1500

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By April 21st/22nd Claude was in Tours
The Saturday he drove a 356 in the rallye de Touraine and the Sunday he finish second behind a Gordini of the Grand Prix de Tours with Auguste Veuillet 550-027

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re 550-027 Andrew posted the following

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Christian Goethals 550 ? (550-082 ?)

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By June 24th the team 550-027 Claude Storez/Auguste Veuillet was in Italy on the Monza autodrome to take part to the Super Corte Maggiore GP
3 off 550 faced some 20 off Maserati's, 14 off Ferrari's, and 3 off Osca's + the habitual Lotus 11, DB and Panhard
550-081 car race number 41 driven by the US/German team Buff/Seidel finish 13"th overall



Car race number 38 Storez/Veuillet finish 15th overall
(a pic of this car can be find on Andrew site)
Car race number 37 was the one of Michael May and his brother Pierre
For this race were they finish 18th they were not allowed to race with the special wing

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Just the time to pack the 550 and en route toward Reims to race the 1956 12 heures internationales de Reims raced July 29th
This race was a non-championship race and few top cars were present except the Jaguar Ecosse team
Porsche KG did not enter cars officially but 4 personnal 550 were there
car race number 26 was the Ecurie Nationale Belge 550 of Christian Goethals with his brother Pierre
Car race number 29 was the 550 of the US/German team Seidel/Buff
Car number 30 was Auguste Veuillet 550-027 this time driven by Richard Von Frankenberg with Claude Storez
The 3 above 550 did compete in Monza the week end before
A 4th 550 was there car race number 32 driven by the women team Annie Bousquet/Ann Haskell



The Reims race ttack with its 3 long straights

Reims pits to day

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As said above the Reims 12 hours race was a non-championship sport cars race, who was taking place the day before the Formula 1 Grand Prix part of the World formula 1 Championship
The race was won by a Jaguar
Claude Storez/Richard Von Frankenberg finish far from the fastest cars but still 1st of the 1.5 L class

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Indeed the 1956 Reims 12 hours race will only stay in the memories as the race where Annie Bousquet kill herself at the wheel of her 550






This race will also be remembered as the race where Annie's best competitor Gilberte Thirion had to push her Gordini to try to take it back to the pit

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One month later July 28th/29th, the cream of the sport cars racing was at le Mans for the 24 hours race




The 1956 edition was the first after the terrible 1955 accident and was raced in July to avoid to have it raced the day of the accident
Porsche was there with a very strong team of 6 cars
Two 550 A tanks specially design for the Le Mans race
Car race number 24 driven by Richard von Frankenberg assisted by Wolfgang Berghe
car race number 25 driven by Hans Hermann assisted by Umberto Maglioli

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In addition to these 2 550 A, Porsche KG did enter 2 off 356 A Carrera
Car race number 26 for Helmut Glockler/Max Nathan
car race number 34 for the French team Maurice Slotine/Bourel

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I have not found the pilots document for car race number 26 as for the others
Here the car in action

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In additionn to these 4 official Porsche KG cars, two off older 550 were entered by private competitors
car race number 27 entered by Carel Godin de Beaufort for himself and Max Hezemans
car race number 28 entered by Gonzague Olivier for Claude Storez and Helmut Polensky