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there are a lot of race entry errors with the confusion between
Gonzague Olivier and Gustave Olivier who both raced 550s at the same time
Gonzague Olivier raced three times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche. His first was in 1953 and resulted in retirement, but in the next two he took the chequered flag; 14th in a Porsche 550 (and first in the 750-1100 cc class ) in 1954 and 18th in 1955. Subsequently, he became one of the privileged collaborators of Auguste Veuillet (five participations at the Le Mans 24 Hours) in Sonauto, the French Porsche importer based in Levallois.
Le Mans (from http://www.race-database.com/owner/owner.php?owner_id=Olivier)
1955 #66 Gustave Olivier/Wolfgang Seidel - Equipe Nationale Belge Porsche
1955 #65 Gustave Olivier
1956 #28 Gustave Olivier/Claude Storez
But then these results...
http://www.racingsportscars.com/driver/results/Gonzague-Olivier-F.html
http://www.racingsportscars.com/driver/results/Gustave-Olivier-F.html
I have checked the French Le Mans 24 hours archives
The name of Gustave Olivier never appear
Gonzague Olivier was first a customer and then a friend of Auguste Veuillet the Sonauto boss
He was a gentleman driver and his real job was to run a famous motorboat shipyard
To day his boats are reaching enormous value as the Riva ones
Gonzague Olivier raced 3 times the Le Mans 24 hours
the first time was in 1953 on his personnal 356 with Ehgene Martin a
Despite the presence of 3 liters Gordini and Ferrari the 2 off 550 of Auguste Veuillet /Gonzague Olivier and Joseph Jesper/Annie Bousquet finished 1st and 2nd
Auguste Veuillet in white is seated in the middle of Gonzague Olivier on his left and Annie Bousquet on his right
Gonzague Olivier died in March this year at the age of 90 only a few weeks after that his son Jean Claude (big boss of Yamaha France) was killed in his Porsche Cayenne on the Paris Lille motorway by a drunk lorry driver who lost the control of his lorry and cross the motorway
I have checked many French documents and never find the existence of Gustave Olivier
On the contrary that name appear on US statistics but that is a translation mistake
I really thinck Gustave Olivier never existed
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