Changes: Robert Manzon

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Robert Manzon, born 12 April 1914 was a French racing driver who spent large amounts of his career racing for the Gordini team but split from the one race into the 1953 season when his wheel came off whilst running second and joined the Lancia sports car team.

Manzon returned to Formula One for the 1954 season with the Equipe Rosier team and before rejoining Gordini in 1955. In total Manzon's time in Formula 1 spanned seven seasons, in which Manzon achieved two podium finishes, gained at the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix and the 1954 French Grand Prix.

Before Formula 1 World Championship

Robert Manzon, a diesel equipment distributor, raced his own 1100cc Cisitilia in 1947, taking wins at Angouleme and Comminges and it was performances like these, against the Simca Gordini's that encouraged the team to sign him midway through 1948. Manzon's first race for Simca Gordini was at Angouleme, a circuit he had won at before and always shone.

1948 Manzon — Manzon in his Cisitilia leads in 1948

Manzon didn't dissapoint on his debut for his new team, leading the final and setting fastest lap before retirement.

Manzon became a regular for the team and finished second to Maurice Trintignant at Angouleme in 1949 as well as finishing second to Raymond Sommer at Lausanne. Manzon won the Bol d'Or in a production Simca too but his results were hampered by engine trouble with the Simca Gordini's revving very highly.

Formula One Career

1950

Manzon was entered in the Monaco Grand Prix, the World Championship debut for the Simca Gordini team qualifying eleventh but was involved in the first race incident that accounted for 10 of the entries when the field entered Tabac for the first time to find it flooded and second placed Nino Farina spun causing a multi car accident.

Manzon's next grand prix was at the fifth round in France. Here, at this home grand prix Manzon qualified thirteenth and battled home fourth behind Alfa Romeo teammates Juan Manuel Fangio and Luigi Fagioli and privateer Ferrari entry Peter Whitehead scoring 3 points.

At the final Grand Prix of the season at Monza qualifying tenth and retiring with transmision problems.

Manzon enjoyed more success in 1950 driving his Simca Gordini to a victory and podiums in Formula 2 races.

Formula One Statistical Overview

Formula One Record

Year	Entrant	Team	WDC Points	WDC Pos.	Report

Career Statistics

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Race Wins

Win Number	Grand Prix

Career Results

Complete Formula One Results
Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos

Key
Symbol	Meaning	Symbol	Meaning
1st	Winner	Ret	Retired
2nd	Podium finish	DSQ	Disqualified
3rd	Podium finish	DNQ	Did not qualify
5th	Points finish	DNPQ	Did not pre-qualify
14th	Non-points finish	TD	Test driver
Italics	Scored point(s) for Fastest Lap	DNS	Did not start
18th^†	Classified finish (retired with >90% race distance)	NC	Non-classified finish (<90% race distance)
4th^P	Qualified for pole position	[+] More Symbols

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Name	Manzon, Robert
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Date of birth	12 April 1914
Place of birth	Marseille
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