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Neuilly. He was made Chevalier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur in 1935 in recognition of his achievements in motorsport. After the Nazi occupation of France in 1939 Chassagne moved from his Paris home Maison Lafitte back to La Croisille -sur-Briance, Limoges his birthplace. He died age 65 on 13 April 1947. He was posthumously honoured - a square in Crewe was named after him in commemoration of his association with Bentley Motors racing; in Limoges, France there is the Rue de Chassagne and in La Croisille sur Briance the Chassagne stadium keeps his memory alive.
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Hanriot Flying School where he trained many of the early pioneering aviators and in 1911 he became Director of the Algeciras Flying School, Spain where he was responsible for the training of Spanish officers. In 1912 Chassagne was again flying with Clément-Bayard where he was responsible for the testing and development of the new aero engines in long-distance flights such as Paris to Reims, Paris to Mourmelon to Reims to Soissons and to Paris, as well as, remarkably Issy to Reims. That year Jean Chassagne met
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Chassagne retired from racing at the end of 1930 age 49 after a long career racing with some of the finest teams and in 1931 he took a position as representative of Castrol Oils for the Aircraft Industry; he also ran the Bentley Motors Sales & Servicing Department
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in 1916 Sunbeam designed a 4.9L engine in the Ernest Henry manner which performed well in that year's
Indianapolis 500; J Christiaens finishing fourth; this engine type was fitted in 1919 in two shorter 1914 Sunbeam T.T. chassis and entered for Jean Chassagne and Dario Resta for the 1919 Indianapolis
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Motorboat racing in Monaco was a convenient test bed for engine technology and in 1913 Coatalen and
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Born 1881 July 26 and was brought up at La
Croisille-sur-Briance, Haute-Vienne, Limoges, France and later in Burgundy, France in modest circumstances. His father, a horse trainer, was killed in a riding accident when Jean Chassagne was still young. He attended LâEcole Professionnelle de St Leonard de
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and built at the Birkin's Works, Welwyn Garden City. At the 1930 Brooklands Double Twelve Chassagne shared Birkin's favourite Blower Bentley but the Mechan's frame broke and the car retired at 4.30 pm of the first day's racing. Again sharing a car with Birkin at the Le Mans Grand Prix dâEndurance,
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In 1909 the British Sunbeam firm engaged the energetic and ambitious Breton Louis HervĂ© Coatalen, (1879â1962) as a chief engineer. Racing enthusiast Coatalen was to transform the Wolverhampton firm to become the foremost British exponents of motor racing internationally at the highest echelons. It
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place winning $ 1,900. Back in Brooklands in the larger 4.9L Ballot and with riding mechanic Robert Laly who was to become a lifelong friend, Chassagne made the fastest BARC lap of the year and finished second in the three handicap races. In the Gaillon Hillclimb, he made 22.6sec at 99 mph.
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In 26â27 June 1906 the first French Grand Prix de lâACF was held in Le Mans; Rene Hanriot driving a Darracq was joined by his longtime friend Jean Chassagne as a riding mechanic but had to retire due to engine trouble. Chassagne continued working at Darracq as a mechanic for two years until 1908
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was Coatalen who in 1912 engaged his countryman Jean Chassagne as part of his winning racing team. In 1912 Coatalen entered a team of four race modified 12/16 Sunbeam cars to compete in the Coupe de l'Auto which was run concurrently with the
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of the eponymous Stout dynasty, set up a series of long distance World Records with a Sunbeam Grand Prix fitted with a Single- Seater body. Two days later again at Brooklands, Jean Chassagne with the Sunbeam Toodles V, won an event against
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In 1929 Le Mans Chassagne was sharing a Bentley with Francis Clement; the Bentley team holding virtually from the beginning the first four positions. Back with a Ballot at the Grand Prix Chassagne retired with a mechanical problem.
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Land Speed Record holder Talbot. On the same day and with the same car Chassagne made the fastest Brooklands race lap to that date. A few days later, Chassagne and Toodles V set up further long distance World Records.
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with Jean Chassagne as riding mechanic not only won the Coupe de lâAuto outright but was placed third in the Grand Prix against the large Grand Prix cars with engines three and five times the capacity of the Sunbeam.
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the car put up the fastest lap at 89.69 mph overtaking Caracciola at nearly 120 mph but retired on lap 138 with a broken valve. The Bentley Works Team was retired but the Birkin Blowers were entered in the
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engines, built in the manner of the Pegueot âCharlatansâ, from which the design was derived, were used in that year's Grand Prix Sunbeam racing motorcars. Travelling to the US for the
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erstwhile competitors. That Chassagne was not âpast itâ was made abundantly clear in the first Le Mans he took part in for Bentley sharing a car with another racing legend
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31 May, Indianapolis 500-Mile, With Dario Resta to drive 4.9L Sunbeam â withdrawn and instead drove the Henry designed Ballot 8cyl 4.9L, accident 63rd lap (steering)
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30 May, Indianapolis 500 Mile, 1913 Sunbeam G.P. (Spotty) 6cyl 4.5L, car no. 12, qualifying speed 88.310 mph, with A P Mitchell, crashed, tyre burst on 20th lap
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where they had a close race with the Mercedes 7 litre supercharged; Chassagne car suffered from lubrication problem. This was to be his last recorded race.
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automobiles, before he joined Sunbeam (later to become S.T.D.), where he achieved his most notable success as a racing driver, including winning the
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30 May, Indianapolis 500 Mile, Ballot 8cyl 3L, car no 26, qualifying speed 95.450 mph, averaged 79.94 mph seventh, winning $ 1,900
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1712:26 February
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1389:, p. 7
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1290:11 November
615:Sunbeam III
517:Dario Resta
239:Best finish
102:Best finish
1905:Categories
1855:10 January
1586:0901564265
1266:References
916:Front Row
874:Lost hood
656:vulcanised
585:Duesenberg
513:Brooklands
484:Jules Goux
305:Brooklands
283:; won the
251:Class wins
115:First race
49:1881-07-26
1371:(123): 8.
812:Crash T4
668:Montlhéry
526:Lambert's
476:Zucarelli
291:- all in
133:Last race
89:Champ Car
1790:cite web
1780:20 April
1674:Archived
1351:(23): 5.
948:Retired
843:Running
781:Retired
410:Montcalm
63:, France
1830:YouTube
1669:YouTube
940:Top 10
900:Starts
859:91.000
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797:88.310
772:Finish
721:Honours
583:on his
563:the war
561:During
556:Darracq
432:Gymnote
419:Espadon
379:Hanriot
363:Le Mans
359:Bentley
343:Darracq
299:with a
293:Sunbeam
227:Bentley
219:Sunbeam
158:Podiums
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880:Totals
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568:Ballot
425:SirĂšne
301:Ballot
194:career
106:15th (
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