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    Jean Marie Behra (16 February 1921 – 1 August 1959) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Gordini, Maserati, BRM, Ferrari and Porsche teams. Behra...
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  • in the 1960 season, but scored no championship points in the process. Jean Behra was a French racing driver, who by the end of the 1950s was a stalwart...
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    team at Modena Autodrome. Trying to beat the lap record by Maserati's Jean Behra, he hit a chicane in a bad way and was thrown out of the car. A skull...
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    title. Two F1 drivers lost their lives in racing accidents. Firstly, Jean Behra raced in the sports car race that preceded the 1959 German Grand Prix...
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    drivers Jean Behra and Cesare Perdisa came in third. Stirling Moss had been signed by Mercedes for the new season and Maserati had replaced him with Jean Behra...
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    was their first full-time season, and they hired ex-Maserati drivers Jean Behra and Harry Schell. Cooper also entered more races than ever, while retaining...
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    Manuel Fangio had done already during the 1954 season. Maserati hired Jean Behra from Gordini, after which the French team reunited with Robert Manzon...
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    received half the points because of the shared drive, ahead of Frenchman Jean Behra and Brit Mike Hawthorn. As it had been since the inclusion of the Argentine...
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    Élie Bayol was fired from Gordini after he refused to let team leader Jean Behra take his car during the non-championship Bordeaux Grand Prix. 1950 champion...
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    Ferrari, but only entered two championship rounds. The French team welcomed Jean Behra, who had just switched from motorcycle racing, and Thai Prince Bira. It...
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    gearbox; SU fuel injection (240 bhp) and Dunlop disc brakes were introduced. Jean Behra drove this in a five-member works team which included Luigi Musso. In...
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    the change and a fairing enclosing more of the cockpit opening.: 65  Jean Behra drove the car to a win at the F2 event at Reims that year. At the German...
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    Ferrari teammate Peter Collins and Jean Behra, driving for Maserati. Fangio retired with a broken steering arm, while Behra also had to pull out. Luigi Musso...
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    for Vanwall — was part of the Maserati line-up with Jean Behra as third driver. Fangio and Behra raced away into the distance as the rest of the field...
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    Glück'. Former Ferrari driver Frenchman Jean Behra was due to race his Behra-Porsche Special in the Grand Prix but Behra was killed the day before racing a...
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    got sick before the race at Italy in 1951, and was secretly replaced by Jean Behra. Team principal Amédée Gordini did not inform the race organizers about...
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    born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme. As a child, he was inspired by Jean Behra. In Formula One, he joined a Tyrrell team that was beginning a long, slow...
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    shared the 3 points for fourth place. Car #28: Harry Schell (50 laps), and Jean Behra (38 laps). Car #22: Luigi Musso (50 laps), Sergio Mantovani (20 laps)...
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    did not manage to finish in it even a single lap. Fangio quickly passed Behra but lost his position after spinning. On laps 40–43, disaster struck the...
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    for this race, consisting of Robert Manzon, B. Bira and the debutant Jean Behra. The HWM team, returning to the World Championship for the first time...
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    him round. Private entrant Eugenio Castellotti retired after 16 laps, Jean Behra crashed and Hawthorn's Vanwall had an oil leak. The domination of the...
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    the tyre situation and how much time they would lose changing tyres. Jean Behra in a privateer Maserati 250F led at the start but was quickly passed by...
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    Maserati in practice and qualified and raced in the No. 78 Alfa Romeo. Behra secretly replaced the unwell Trintignant for the race of the Italian Grand...
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    the pit and turned his car over to Fangio. He resumed in third and passed Behra for second on lap 70, but he was 47 seconds behind Moss. On lap 86 Perdisa's...
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    Grand Prix qualification. Following the death of Porsche team leader Jean Behra in a racing accident on 1 August 1959 while driving in the sports car...
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    Laurent of Ecurie Francorchamps, and Piero Carini of Scuderia Marzotto. Jean Behra returned to action for the Gordini team, having recovered from his shoulder...
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    having achieved four victories in 1961, 1963, 1964 and 1965. French racers Jean Behra and Maurice Trintignant and Austria's Jochen Rindt are all in second position...
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    World Championship, attracted a world-class field. The race was won by Jean Behra for Maserati. The 1958 edition of the race was the only one to be part...
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    Gordini retained their 1952 trio of Robert Manzon, Maurice Trintignant, and Jean Behra, who were joined by a pair of Argentines—Carlos Menditeguy and Pablo Birger—the...
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    well in the lead. But by lap 3 Fangio would be in second having passed Behra, Collins, and then Castellotti. By the fifth lap he was in the lead and...
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