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Formula One Career |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Nationality | Belgian |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Active years | 1959 - 1963, 1965, 1968 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Team(s) | Cooper, Emeryson, Lotus, ENB, Lola, BRM |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Grands Prix | 19 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Championships | 0 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Wins | 0 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Podium finishes    | 1 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Pole positions | 0 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Fastest laps | 0 |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! First Grand Prix | 1956Monaco Grand Prix |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! First win | |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Last win | |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! Last Grand Prix | 1968Mexican Grand Prix |}

Lucien Bianchi (born November 10 1934 in Milan, Italy; died March 30 1969) was a Belgian Formula One driver who raced for the Cooper, Emeryson, Lotus, ENB, Lola and BRM teams. The italian-born Bianchi moved to Belgium when he was still a kid, with his father who was a race mechanic. His first race event was at the Alpine Rally in 1951. He won the 1957, 1958 and 1959 Tour de France as well as the Paris 1000 sports car race in the latter two years. He entered Formula 1 in 1960, where he appeared briefly. He then raced touring cars, sports cars and rally cars, being successful in all disciplines; his biggest victories coming in the 1968 Le Mans 24 Hours, behind the wheel of a Ford GT40 with Pedro Rodriguez and at Sebring in 1962 with Jo Bonnier. He was also leading the London-Sydney marathon when his Citroën collided with a non-competing car. In 1968 he re-entered Formula 1 with the Cooper-BRM team but early 1969 he was killed when his Alfa Romeo T33 spun into a telegraph pole during Le Mans testing.

Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Luciano "Lucien" Bianchi
Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Team
1959 Coop MON IND DUT FRA GBR DEU POR ITA USA       Coop
1960 Coop ARG MON IND DUT BEL FRA GBR POR ITA USA     Coop
1961 Emer MON DUT BEL FRA GBR DEU ITA USA         Lotu
1962 Lotu DUT MON BEL FRA GBR DEU ITA USA SAF       ENB
1963 Lola MON BEL DUT FRA GBR DEU ITA USA MEX SAF     Lola
1965 BRM SAF MON BEL FRA GBR DUT DEU ITA USA MEX     BRM
1968 Coop SAF SPA MON BEL DUT FRA GBR DEU ITA CAN USA MEX Coop

 


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