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The last Liege Rome Liege was raced in 1960
From 1961 to 1964 the parcours was changed into Liege Sofia Liege in order to use not too loaded roads
In 1965 up to 1971 the race changed name to become the Maraton de la route (road marathon) consisting into a 3 to 4 days non stop race on the old Nurburgring race track
In 2011 a well known event organisation tried to organise a Liege Rome Liege revival
A picture of Claude Storez/Robert Buchet white speedster was used to attract potential competitors with the mention no gravel roads only asphalt and no racetracks

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Unfortunately the price asked to enter a car (more than 9000 USD) was too high and the race revival was a complete "flop"

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Scale model of Claude white speedster

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By September 8th, Claude Storez was taking part to the 8th edition of the Cadours GP a non-world championship race for sport cars

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A week later Claude met again with Robert Buchet to attend the 6th edition of the Tour de France automobile
Again he was driving its white 356 Carrera

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Sorry wrong post I restart
The 6th edition of the Tour de France auto was raced from September 15th to September 21st
Once again Claude Storez was driving the same Carrera speedster he drove at the Liege Rome Liege and of course is co pilot was once again Robert Buchet

The car was well maintain after the difficult Liege Rome Liege race and Storez/Buchet finish 6th overall behind much more powerfull cars

113 cars started the race, only 37 crossthe finish line

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The Tour auto was Claude Storez last race for 1957
For its first race in 1958, Claude Storez teamed again with Robert Buchet
Apparently he had sold his white C

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The Tour auto was Claude Storez last race for 1957
For its first race in 1958, Claude Storez teamed again with Robert Buchet
Apparently he had sold his white Carrera Speedster with which he raced several times in 1957
For the 1958 edition of the Neige et Glace Rallye (Snow and Ice rallye) a typical French local rallye in the Alps, they used Robert Buchet own white Carrera Speedster plate number 466BY86

It was a new victory with a Citroen DS19 second

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As many of these old rallyes, the Criterium (not Rallye as I said by error above)Neige et Glace is still raced to day for historical race cars
Here a nice Belgium 356 attending the 2015 revival

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In 1958 the FIA (for Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) decided to launch a less expensive formula than the Formula 1 that they called formula 2
To start with, in order to have enough competitors it was decided to authorize sports cars like the 550 to enter these races
Below a Cooper fighting against a 550

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Claue Storez having already a small experience of that type of racing was choosen to drive in several French formula 2 races with an Auguste Veuillet 550
Its first race was the Pau Grand Prix by April 7th with a DNF

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From May 30th to June 1st Claude took part to the Mont Blanc rallye, a rallye he ha

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Wrong post I restart
From May 30th to June 1st Claude Storez did compete into the Mont Blanc rallye, a rallye he had already won in 1957 with Robert Buchet
I know very little on this race only that he won again with his new team mate Tremble

The car was a Porsche likely to belong to Tremble

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The 1958 edition of the Le Mans 24 hours was raced June 21st/June 22nd
Porsche KG went with a strong team of 5 cars, 3 off 718RSK and 2 off 550 RS.
718RSK 005 car race number 29 driven by Jean Behra and Hans Hermann

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718 RSK 004 car racenumber 30 driven by Claude Storez and Richard Von Frankenberg