André Wicky | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | (1928-05-22)22 May 1928 Lausanne,Switzerland |
Died | 14 May 2016(2016-05-14) (aged 87) Lausanne, Switzerland |
André Wicky (22 May 1928 – 14 May 2016) was aSwiss racing driver, active from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. He was mainly involved insports car racing, as an entrant and team owner as well as a driver, but also took part in several non-championshipFormula One races during the 1960s.
Wicky entered the24 Hours of Le Mans in1960 and1961 with anAC Ace, winning the 2.0 GT class in 1960. He returned to Le Mans in 1966, and raced every year until 1975, campaigningPorsches. From 1969, he drove for his own team, the Wicky Racing Team, and his best overall result was 17th in1971, driving aPorsche 908. The same year,Walter Brun finished seventh in a Wicky Porsche. Occasionally Wicky campaigned other marques besides Porsche; in 1974 he entered aBMW 3.0CSL for Brun, although it retired after one lap, and aDe Tomaso Pantera for Max Cohen-Olivar and Philippe Carron, which retired after 16 laps.
From 1961, he participated in occasional Formula One races, first with aCooperT53, but this car suffered engine failures in every race that Wicky entered. At the1963 Mediterranean Grand Prix, he drove aLotus24 forScuderia Filipinetti, and achieved his best Formula One result of ninth from 11th on the grid. He subsequently bought the Lotus and entered it in the next twoSyracuse Grands Prix, but found little success with the car, only able to repeat his ninth-place finish in the 1965 race, albeit a distant last.[1]
Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
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1960 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | AC Ace-Bristol | GT 2.0 | 239 | NC | NC |
1961 | ![]() | ![]() | AC Ace-Bristol | GT 2.0 | 115 | DNF | DNF |
1966 | ![]() | ![]() | Bizzarrini P538-Chevrolet | P +5.0 | 8 | DNF | DNF |
1967 | ![]() | ![]() | Porsche 911S | GT 2.0 | 126 | DNF | DNF |
1968 | ![]() | ![]() | Porsche 910 | P 2.0 | 248 | DNF | DNF |
1969 | ![]() | ![]() | Porsche 911T | GT 2.0 | 34 | DNF | DNF |
1970 | ![]() | ![]() | Porsche 907 | P 2.5 | 161 | DNF | DNF |
1971 | ![]() | ![]() | Porsche 908/02 | P 3.0 | 236 | DNF | DNF |
1972 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 908/02 | S 3.0 | - | DNS | DNS |
1973 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 908/02 | S 3.0 | 270 | 21st | 9th |
1974 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Porsche 908/02 | S 3.0 | 41 | DNF | DNF |
1975 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | De Tomaso Pantera-Ford | GTS | - | DNQ | DNQ |
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Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
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1961 | André Wicky | CooperT51 | Climax FPF 1.5 L4 | LOM | GLV | PAU Ret | BRX | VIE | AIN | SYR | NAP DNA | LON | SIL | SOL | KAN | DAN | MOD | FLG | OUL | LEW | VAL | RAN | NAT | RSA |
1963 | André Wicky | CooperT53 | Climax FPF 1.5 L4 | LOM | GLV | PAU 7 | IMO | SYR Ret | AIN | INT | ROM Ret | SOL | KAN | |||||||||||
Ecurie Filipinetti | Lotus24 | BRM P56 1.5V8 | MED 9 | AUT | OUL | RAN | ||||||||||||||||||
1964 | André Wicky | Lotus24 | BRM P56 1.5V8 | DMT | NWT DNA | SYR DNQ | AIN | INT | SOL | MED | RAN | |||||||||||||
1965 | André Wicky | Lotus24 | BRM P56 1.5V8 | ROC | SYR 9 | SMT | INT | MED | RAN | |||||||||||||||
1966 | André Wicky | CooperT53 | BRM P56 2.0V8 | RSA | SYR DNS | INT | OUL | |||||||||||||||||
1967 | André Wicky | CooperT66 | Porsche 906 3.0F6 | ROC | SPR | INT | SYR DNA | OUL | ESP | |||||||||||||||