Since 1977

Since 1977, I have written more than 300 000 kilometers of words, that is to say put end to end, one way trip from Earth to the Moon. Or a second to light for this trip. A second light words in 30 years, some 3 billion signs.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

JEAN TREVOUX

JEAN TREVOUX : LA CARRERA PANAMERICANA








Jean (Claude, Marie) Trévoux, né le 27 Fevrier 1905 à Le Petit Quevilly (près de Rouen) et mort le 29 )ctobre 1981 à Mexico, était un pilote de rallye francais, essentiellement reconnu pour ses 4 victoires au Rallye de Monte-Carlo  (une comme copilote, les trois autres comme pilote).
En 1936, il dispute la saison comme pilote, catégorie Sport sur Riley Sprite TT 1.5L I4 (catégorie 1 500 cm3), qu'il pilotera également aux 24 Heures du Mans l'année suivante avec Guy Lapchin (Écurie Eudel). En 1938, il est encore au Mans, sur Talbot T150C 4.0L i6 (chassis 82933) cette fois, équipier avec Pierre Levegh. Il revient dans la Sarthe une 3e fois avant-guerre, en 1939 avec Joseph Paul (son covainqueur du rallye Monte-Carlo la même année), sur Delahaye 135CS 3.6L I6 pour l'écurie Francia.
En 1941, avec la Talbot T150C (chassis 90130), il part au 500 Miles d’Indianapolis avec Talbot/ Schell, pour l'écurie Chinetti.
Après-guerre, il reprend définitivement le volant en compétitions rallyes, où il avait débuté.
Il revient, cependant, au Mans une 4e -et dernière- fois en 1949, pour la 1re édition de la reprise de l'épreuve, associé alors à Marcel Lesurque, et courant pour l'écurie d'Amedee Gordini, sur Simca-Gordini TMM 1.1L I4.








Il a participé aux 5 éditions de la Carrera Panamericana mexicaine (dite Pan Am), de 1950 à 1954, débutant sur Delahaye, terminant 5e en 1951 sur Packard Patrician, et faisant carrosser sa Packard par Rocco Motto -Howard Johansen y incorporant la motorisation- à compter de 1953.
Il ouvrit un restaurant à Mexico City à la fin des année 1940  (Restaurant Bar La Cucaracha (en emblème sur sa Packard), dans la Cucaral Via), après avoir épousé une mexicaine, à son arrivée au Mexique en 1946.
À compter de 1955, il devint importateur de la marque Renault à Mexico, sous le nom de société Autos Francia (puis devint importateur mexicain pour  Peugeot.Il courut une toute dernière fois au Grand Prix d'Avandaro, en 1957 sur Renault Dauphine
Ayant démarré la compétition automobile en 1931, il a obtenu un total de 27 podiums.

















Cette image est surement l'une des plus impressionantes de la Panamericana, Il s'agit de la Packard de Jean trevoux, qui fonce a tres grande allure dans les rues de Mexico..On remarquera la poussiere soulevee par la voiture et la proximite des spectateurs. Les organisateurs inconscients des riques de cette course, seront interdits des 1955 par le gouvernement Mexicain.



Monday, September 24, 2012

LEO MALLET et mon pote PASCAL MOIZO

LEO MALLET et mon pote PASCAL MOIZO.

A propos du : DERNIER TRAIN D'AUSTERLITZ.

NOTE DE L'AUTEUR:
Contrairement a la formule habituelle, tous les personnages de cette histoire ne sont pas fictifs,_et que Dieu, ou le Diable, reconnaisse les siens.
Veuille toutefois le lecteur me faire l'honneur de compter parmi les personnages de ce recit invente de toutes pieces, celui de Philippe Gronard, en lequel la plus execrable foi, seule, pourrait voir le symbole de la corporation des editeurs.

L'auteur tient a apporter ici son temoignage que l'editeur  du Dernier Train d'Austerlitz, par exemple,
outre qu'il s'est montre homme de gout en acceptant cette oeuvre, est un personnage charmant.

L.M.


Léon Malet, dit Léo Malet, né le 7 mars 1909 à Montpellier et mort le 3 mars 1996 a Chatillon sous Bagneux, est un ecrivain francais.
Il a écrit sous différents pseudonymes : Frank Harding, Léo Latimer, Lionel Doucet, Jean de Selneuves, Noël Letam, Omer Refreger, Louis Refreger et, en association avec les écrivains Serge Arcouet et Pierre Ayraud sous le pseudonyme collectif de John-Silver Lee.

Léo Malet, autodidacte commence comme chansonnier à Montmartre en 1925. La même année, il se rend à Montpellier où Andre Colomer est présent pour traiter du thème : « Deux monstres, Dieu et la Patrie, ravagent l'humanité ». C'est là que Colomer va influencer Malet, bouleversé par son tempérament fiévreux, sur la voie libertaire. Il s'ensuit une correspondance.
À son arrivée à Paris en 1925, il fréquente les milieux anarchistes, dont le foyer vegetalien de la rue de Tolbiac qu'il décrivit plus tard dans plusieurs romans. Il effectue ensuite différents petits boulots : employé de bureau, manœuvre, journaliste occasionnel (En dehors, L'insurgé, Journal de l'Homme aux Sandales, la Revue Anarchiste, etc.), « nègre », gérant de magasin de mode, figurant de cinema, crieur de journaux, emballeur (chez Hachette). Il parodie la litterature policiere anglo-saxonne sous de multiples pseudonymes.
Il écrit de la poesie, appartenant de 1930 à 1949 au groupe surrealiste. Il milite brièvement avec Benjamin Peret au parti trotskyste POI (parti ouvrier international) de 1936 à 1939, de nombreux surréalistes étant alors proches du trotskisme.
Mais c'est en 1942 qu'il se met au roman policier avec 120, rue de la Gare, mettant en scène un détective dont on allait parler : Nestor Burma. Dans la série, commencée en 1954, des Nouveaux Mysteres de Paris, où chaque énigme a pour décor un arrondissement de la capitale, il se montre un peintre remarquable de la ville, de son atmosphère et de ses secrets...




Cher Ami,
Voici deux images
scannees d'une planche contacte
les negatifs ayant disparus depuis des lustres.
Replongeant ainsi mes souvenirs dans
les archives de notre
memoire, je cherche un
passage discret, une transition
historique, a ces moments
exceptionnels....
a suivre sur le blog




Il existe un rapport tres etroit entre ces deux images et la couverture du livre de Leo Mallet.
Nous sommes sur le pont d'Austerlitz avec mon ami Moizo, apres une nuit blanche , et nous avons vu partir le Dernier Train d'austerlitz, car nous etions a l'epoque de puissants nostalgiques des Gares et des stations de Metro. Quelques 30 annees plus tard mon pote Moizo devait m'envoyer une edition
originale du Livre de Leo Mallet , edition de 1948.













En remontant le temps et le cours de nos pas, sur cette meme planche contacte nous voici assis dans le Jardin des Plantes fraichement ouvert au Public, des images espaces temps, avec ce decors grandiose au petit matin des allees et du Palais de l'Archeologie en fond de cadre...simplement envoutant...les grimaces font le reste, mais la lumiere, cette lumiere qui a pour moi une odeur, je dirai presque un parfum, un peu comme celui que je retrouve ici lorque je sors du boulot en Septembre, entre chien et loup....
il y a la quelquechose d'ennivrant, de profondement nostalgique, et intensement vivant...je continue mes recherches pour trouver la date...as tu une idee ?


Soudain me reviens en memoire une image d'Archives de l'enfance de notre ami Alain Gueguen, il a moins de 5 ans sur l'image, c'est au debut des annees 60, presque la meme lumiere.



Saturday, September 15, 2012

FELICE BONETTO (1903-1953), La Carrera Panamericana.

 
Felice Bonetto 


(9 June 1903 in Manerbio, near Brescia, Italy – 21 November 1953 in Silao, Mexico) was a racing driver who raced in Formule One for the Maserati, Scuderia Milano and Alfa Romeo teams.
He enjoyed a brief Formula One career, including a win in the non-Championship Portuguese Grand Prix in 1953, and also some success in sports car racing (2nd at the 1949 Mille Miglia,  winner of the 1952 Targa Florio) until his fatal accident while driving a Lancia D24 on the Carrera Panamericana, that he was leading, when he left the road after jumping uneven pavement before colliding with a lamp-post. Ultimately, that race was won by Juan Manuel Fangio. Felice Bonetto is buried at the Italian section of Mexico City's Dolores Cemetery.



When you’re born in Brescia it only makes sense that you’ll become a racing driver. I’d say that this pipe may have been Felice Bonetto’s lucky charm, but it’s worth noting that he was disqualified from the 1952 German GP at the Nurburgring. Maybe he already knew he was disqualified and thought, “The Hell with it, I may as well enjoy a lovely drive around the Eifel Mountains. Now where is my pipe?”.
It would be only a year later that Felice’s drive would be anything but leisurely while leading the 1953 Carrera Panamericana for Lancia. It sounds a bit apocryphal, but Benetto reportedly marked dangerous corners along the route with blue signs. It was at one of these locations—despite this care in marking these corners—that Felice would take a 60mph corner at 125. Bonetto swerved his Lancia D24 into a building and was killed at the scene.Teammate Fangio went on to win.





For years we read and hear stories of great drivers and races and we stand in awe. One of the most celebrated automotive race wins of all time was when Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1953 La Carrera Panamericana. Anyone who races knows that regardless of every possible facet involved in winning a race there will always be some element of luck involved. Like any fan or student of La Carerra Panamericana I have known for years about the fact that Fangio won the 1953 La Carrera Panamericana without winning a single stage but until today I was not aware of some other interesting facts that led me to realize there was a whole lot of luck involved in Fangios win. Had it not been for a whole chain of events Fangio would never have won that race. It can also be said that you should never give up regardless of the adversity you may be faced with, and obvciouisly Fangio did not in this case. Nonetheless it's interesting to learn Fangio was not the shining star during this particular race that so many thought to him to be.







During the 1953 Carrera Panamericana one of the greatest Italian road racers, Felice Bonetto, was driving for the Scuderia Lancia team. Lancia had entered an incredible team of five cars for Felice Bonetto, Juan Manuel Fangio and Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1951 edition of the race, in three 3.3-litre D24 cars, and Giovanni Bracco and Eugenio Castellotti with two 3-litre models, with a crew of about 30 mechanics and engineer, with one service truck and with Gianni Lancia in person as team-manager, following the 6,000 kms race in a private airplane. Their best competitors were Umberto Maglioli - Pasquale Cassani, Mario Ricci - Forese Salviati and Luigi Chinetti - Fon de Portago in three 4,5-litre Ferrari 375MM, and other private Ferraris driven by Antonio Stagnoli - Giuseppe Scotuzzi, Guido Mancini - Fabrizio Serena and a couple of young American drivers, Phil Hill - Richie Ginther and Louis Rosier who raced alone his Talbot Lago. 


The first Carrera Panamericana of Felice in 1950 on one of the two Alfa-Romeo.

During private tests, before the start of the race, Bonetto with Taruffi and other Italians drivers, painted a blue or red sign to point out dangerous bends, bump in the road or trees beside the road. Also in the stretch between the towns of Toluca and Leon, where several vados, a sort of large gutters, crossed the road, Bonetto painted a lot of blue alarm signals on the asphalt; this will be ineffective to avoid him the fatal crash, some hours later.

On Thursday 19 November 1953 morning the IV Carrera Panamericana started: Bonetto was the winner of the 530 kms. first stage Tuxtla Gutierrez -Oaxaca, with 2'40" from Taruffi and Fangio.In the early hours of the race Angelo Stagnoli and his co-driver Giuseppe Scotuzzi lost their lives in a huge accident happened in the long straight near the small town of Tehuantepec, when for a tyre failure their car went off the road, overturned and exploded. In another accident happened nesr Tehuantepec River Bridge, six spectators were killed when the Ford 6 of Mickey Thompson-Roger Flores went off the road.





On the second day of race, Piero Taruffi won the stages OaxacaPuebla and PueblaMexico, but Bonetto still led the race retaining 41” advantage. Fangio had sustained an accident and his car’s axle was broken: Lancia mechanics were able to repair the car in the paddock before the start of the following stage, but Fangio seemed out of the race with a gap of seven minutes from Bonetto. 



On the second day of the 1953 La Carrera Panamericana, Felice Bonetto led the race on aggregate, retaining an advantage of 41sec. Fangio had sustained an accident and his car’s axle was broken but the Lancia mechanics were able to repair it before the start of the next stage. By now Fangio seemed out of the race with a gap of about seven minutes behind Bonetto.

After the start of the 420 kms stage Mexico – León, the course went uphill in a mountain road until 3100 meters below sea level, and after 100 kms redescended to pass the town of Toluca, and to go ahead via a long straight in which the cars used full throttle, towards Queretaro and Irapuato, Felice Bonetto leading. Gianni Lancia was afraid about the last faster stages of the Carrera Panamericana, where the strenght of Maglioli’s Ferrari could make up for lost time to Lancia’s, so he asked his drivers to maintain the positions. But el Zorro plateado Taruffi, beloved by Mexican crowd, probably wanted to win again the race, and closely followed his team mate and rival Bonetto. They arrived together at full speed in the foggy area before the small town of Silao: a large left bend was at the end of a long straight, with several spectators beside the road. While approaching the fast bend, Taruffi tried to get near Bonetto but was unable to negotiate the bend and went off the road in a cloud of dust. The car wasn’t damaged and he returned in a few minutes on track with the help of the spectators, and took up his run. In the meantime Bonetto didn’t slow down: perhaps he did not realize his competitor was out and he kept on pushing, also arriving in the stretch in the center of Silao, where he had put his painted blue danger signal. He passed at about 200 km/h (instead of wise 100, 120 km/h) over an one-meter large vado, his Lancia suddenly swerved and crashed against the balcony of a house on the right, ending its veering against a pole. Felice Bonetto fatally hit his head into the balcony and was immediately killed. 

After Bonetto's death, team owner Gianni Lancia wanted to withdraw, but Fangio, Bracco, Taruffi and Castellotti decided to keep on racing, in honor of their team mate. Eventually after the remaining cars had some problems Juan Manuel Fangio went on to win the race without ever winning a single stage.



According to the accident reports of Italian journalist Giovanni Canestrini, on the contrary Bonetto had perceived his competitor’s crash and instinctively relaxed his concentration: so he didn’t look at his danger signal painted on the asphalt and passed over the bump across the road too fast. 

It is also to be reported that Piero Taruffi claimed in some interviews that Bonetto received first aid a long time after his accident. Probably Taruffi asserted that because he felt somehow guilty for the death of his companion, however a few recent sources confirmed this information. According to these accounts nobody rushed to help Bonetto after his crash because, following the disaster of two days earlier, when six spectator were rolled over and killed by a car while they were standing on the road trying to rescue another accidented car, the Mexican Government imposed the National Army to shoot every man or animal (!) crossing the road during the race (see also the circumstances of this other fatality of the year before for a related case, so nobody had the nerve to approach the wrecked car for over a hour fearing to be shot down by the soldiers. Anyhow, since it's believed that Felice Bonetto had died instantly, this delay was probably not a factor in the death of the driver. 

After the death of Felice Bonetto, Gianni Lancia wanted to withdraw, but Fangio, Bracco, Taruffi and Castellotti decided to keep on racing, in honour of their unfortunate team mate. After Maglioli, their best opponent who had won the fourth stage Mexico – León, lost a wheel and finished his race, Lancia forced the drivers to maintain the positions and to drive with riding-mechanics on board. Taruffi won the fifth stage León - Durango, while Maglioli who had replaced Mario Ricci at the wheel of the third Ferrari 375MM of the Scuderia Guastalla, dominating the last three stages Durango - Parral, Parral-Chiuahua and Chiuahua-Ciudad Juarez.

Juan Manuel Fangio with Gino Bronzoni was the winner of the race at Ciudad Juárez, whitout any stage victory, being Piero Taruffi-Luigi Maggio second and Eugenio Castellotti-Carlo Luoni third. Giovanni Bracco did not finish the race, Maglioli-Ricci-Salviati were classified 6th. 


Felice Bonetto was an expert 50-year-old driver, he had started his racing career in the 30s (2nd overall in the 1933 Circuito delle Province Meridionali - Coppa Principessa di Piemonte, and 12th overall in the 1934 Mille Miglia race, driving a AlfaRomeo 8C 2600), but he obtained his greatest success after the Second World War, when he was a grown-up person: he won the 1947 Circuito di Firenze driving a Delage 3000, he was 2nd in the 1949 Napoli Grand Prix in a Ferrari, and in 1950 he won the Pontedecimo-Giovi hillclimb in a Osca and the Circuito do Porto in Portugal in a Alfa Romeo. In the Mille Miglia race he scored a 2nd place overall in 1949, at the wheel of a Ferrari 166MM Touring, behind Clemente Biondetti, a 6th place in 1951 in a Alfa Romeo 412 spider, and a 3rd place in 1953 in a Lancia D20. 

In 1951 he drove for Alfa Romeo the new 1900TI model and was the winner of the touring-cars class (15th overall) in the Giro di Sicilia. Then in 1952 he passed to Scuderia Lancia, and at the wheel of the legendary Aurelia B20, on March he scored a 2nd place in the Giro di Sicilia, not so far from the winner Paolo Marzotto, in a 2-litre Ferrari sportscar, on May he was 6th overall, first of the GT-cars class, in the Preis von Bremgarten, on June he obtained an 8th place in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Enrico Anselmi as co-driver, and finally a great win in the Targa Florio, from team mates Gino Valenzano, second and Enrico Anselmi, third. The following season started with a DNF in the 1953 Giro di Sicilia, in a 2,5-litre Lancia Aurelia B22, and the 3rd place in the Mille Miglia with the D20 sportscar. After he did not finish the Le Mans 24 Hours with co-driver Gino Valenzano, he was 2nd in the Gran Premio di Monza behind Gigi Villoresi in a Ferrari, 9th in the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti, and 1st in the Grande Premio do Jubileu at Monsanto Circuit, Lisbon, from Stirling Moss in a Jaguar C-type. 




Bonetto also raced single-seaters, scoring 16 Formula 1 starts, from 1950 to 1953 (first start 1950 Swiss G.P. at Bremgarten, 5th overall in the Maserati of the Scuderia Milano), obtaining two 3rd places in the 1951 Italian G.P. sharing the Alfa Romeo 159A with Nino Farina, and in the 1953 Dutch G.P. sharing a works Maserati with José Froilán González. 





Felice Bonetto was survived by wife Liliana and 15-years-old son Roberto. Some years later Roberto Bonetto became a well known motorsport journalist in Italy. During his honeymoon in the 1970s he went to Mexico to visit the place of his father’s death. In the village of Silao he found two memorials for Felice Bonetto, a plaque on the wall of the house, where the fatal balcony had been demolished, and a monument with a bronze bust in Silao cemetery. There was a legend about this monument, inside which it seems Bonetto’s heart is preserved; the day after Bonetto's fatal accident, the Mexican doctor who made the postmortem examination decided that such a strong heart like Bonetto’s must remain in territory of Mexico!





Wednesday, September 5, 2012

ELLA LA PATATE !

ELLA LA PATATE !



Ma fille Ella, pas encore 4 ans, dessine tout les jours, ses reves , ses experiences, ses peurs. C'est un outil genial de comprehension et de dialogue. Avec elle-meme, avec les autres, avec le monde.Voici quelque uns de ses derniers dessins.





Dans la salle de bain une araignee, vite sortir en courant et dessiner le monstre apres quelques pleures.






Le bebe Lapin saute dans la poche de sa mere, dans le ventre de sa mere faudrait-il dire.





Ella et maman, regardent dans le scanner. D'ici viennent toutes les images, de la viennent tous les reves.







 L'aNe TROTRO, L'aNe TROTRO trop trop rigolo!!!!!!!!!!




Lorsqu'Ella est heureuse, elle saute au plafond et cri YESH !!!!!


Presque un auto -portrait, avec une pointe de vie anterieur, un doigt d'hier, dessin a l'ocre, sepia.

La famille des petites Tortues partent pour un pic-nic, avec le petit Tortue.

CARRERA PANAMERICANA JAROSLAV JUHAN.

CARRERA PANAMERICANA "JAROSLAV JUHAN".




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Former Porsche factory driver Jaroslav Juhan , born in Prague in 1921, started his career as an importer of Italian cars and buses. He left his homeland in 1951 for the Republic of Guatemala, where he became the official importer of Porsche sports cars - and to publicise his business, he raced the vehicles he was selling.
Juhan won the Guatemalan 1953 Carrera de Pacifico in a 356 1500 Super. In a 550 Spyder, he led the 1.6-litre class of the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico later that year, though he had to retire on the seventh section due to a technical defect. Nonetheless, his performance was good enough to win him a works drive the following year: duelling with Hans Herrmann, then regarded as Porsche's top driver, he finished just seconds behind to take second place in their class and fourth place overall behind two of the far more powerful Ferraris. The third picture here shows Juhan (far right) with teammates Herbert Linge, Herrmann and Porsche motorsport boss Huschke von Hanstein.
Later in 1954, Juhan won the 1000km race from Buenos Aires, taking fourth place overall (top two pictures); in 1955, he scored a sixth place at Le Mans with teammate Helm Glöckler, and a fourth place in class in Buenos Aires (bottom picture). However, he always regarded himself as an amateur.
Juhan left Guatemala in 1961 due to its unstable political situation and settled in Switzerland, where he drove a Porsche 928 S4 on-road well into his old age.




Stuttgart. Dr. Ing h.c. F. Porsche AG is mourning the death of former factory racer on 28 September 2011 died Jaroslav "Jerry" Juhan at the age of 89 years. In the fifties, he was instrumental in making the brand Porsche announced at the South American continent.


Mary was born Vaclav Jaroslav Juhan on 13 October 1921 in Prague, where he spent his teenage years. After the end of the Second World War he took part in car races and was an importer of Italian cars and buses. In 1951 he left his homeland for political infighting. He emigrated to the Republic of Guatemala - where he built an automobile import for various Italian brands.



In 1953 Juhan became an official importer of Porsche sports cars. To make the Porsche brand among young South African automotive enthusiasts known, decided to participate Jaroslav Juhan on the Type 356 car race. With a Porsche 356 1500 Super 1953 in Guatemala, he went to the "Carrera de Pacifico" at the start. He won this race right away and ordered out two copies of the new 550 Spyder racing car. In 1953 he started at the "Carrera Panamericana" in Mexico and took over on the second stretch the lead in the 1.6-liter sports car class. In a promising position but had to give up Jaroslav Juhan on the seventh section with a technical defect.

A year later, Juhan went again as a Porsche factory driver at the "Carrera Panamericana" at the start. Over the entire race developed into a duel between him and Hans Herrmann, who was considered the top driver of the factory teams. After 3077 kilometers, Hans Herrmann and Jaroslav Juhan walked a distance of only 36 seconds as a double-winner over the finish line. This success inspired Ferry Porsche, in the future to provide all equipped with the engine camshaft four victorious Porsche sports car with the name "Carrera". On the "Carrera Panamericana" in 1954 was followed by the 1,000 km race from Buenos Aires, Juhan also graduated as the class winner and fourth overall. As a member of the team work Jaroslav Juhan 1955 was also at the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the start. Together with a helmet Gloeckler, he ended the French endurance classic on the 6th Rank. 



Despite these impressive achievements of Jaroslav Juhan was always an amateur in his own words, who took part in races in order to sell the car in connection better. Its automotive trade flourished in Guatemala, but the increasingly unstable political situation developed into an ever greater risk. Jaroslav Juhan 1961 left his wife Denise and Guatemala and settled in Switzerland. As a businessman, Juhan had since worked in various fields. The contact with Porsche and other racers never ripped from his life. In many races Jaroslav Juhan was a welcome guest to the particular habit Ferry Porsche and Huschke von Hanstein good contact. No wonder he's Porsche on the road remained faithful: Well into old age Jaroslav Juhan drove a Porsche 928 S4.





 

Monday, September 3, 2012