The X---- Porsche cars

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718 RSK 003 car race number 31 driven by Edgar Barth/Paul Frere

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550 RS 0145 car race number 32 driven by Carel Godin de Beaufort/Herbert Linge

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550 RS 0142 car race number 34 driven by Jean Kerguen/Franc
sorry no pic
The best result was for car racenumber 29 who finish 3rd overall and first in class 2L behind a 3liters Ferrari and an Aston Martin
Cars race number 29 and 31 were DNF
Car race number 32 was 5th overall
Car race number 34 was 10th

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Claude Storez for its 5th and unfortunately last participation to the Le Mans race was again DNF (engine failure due to a burn valve)
the below pic represent Claude stoping is car outside the pit

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An interesting sequence showing that at the start (still given with the pilot on the other side of the track) Claude Storez was much more prompt to start than Jean Behra whose car was ahead of Claude's one

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Some of the Porches in front the pit

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Some more pics of Jean Behra French hero of this edition

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Huschke Von Hanstein Porsche race director was of course there to support his pilots

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Somemore pics left

Behra pit stop

Barth pit stop

Carel Godin de Beaufort pit stop

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Jose Behra Ricardo Rodrigues exhanging the wheel at a pit stop

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3 days (July 8th to July 13th) after the Reims 12 hours, Claude had accepted to share the wheel of a bright new 356 speedster belonging to one of his friend named Chavy into the Coupe des Alpes a very difficult race of 3700 km through the French, Italian and SWwiss Alps pountains, starting and arriving from Marseille
57 competitors left Marseille, only 17 came back
According to the local newspaper Claude was one of the favorite

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Shell petroleum sponsor of the race had a fantastic video turn during this race

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PExBCwPrFpE

I try to post the lonk but not sure if it will work

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Geat in works
For those who will have the courage to watch this long (35 minutes video) they will discover of hard and dangerous these races on open roads were dangerous for the pilots, the cars, the spectators and sometimes the unfortunate other people sharing the same roads
As I was not sure of the success of posting I have extracted sopme interesting pics
First Claude Storez/Chavy white speedster bright new (I can tell with the plate number who say this car was registred in June 195 at the start and quite distorted when they had to leave the race somewhere in Italy