Raymond Sommer

Raymond Sommer
Sommer in 1932
Born	Pierre Raymond Sommer (1906-08-31)31 August 1906 Mouzon, Ardennes, France
Died	10 September 1950(1950-09-10) (aged 44) Cadours, Haute-Garonne, France
Championship titles
Major victories 24 Hours of Le Mans (1932, 1933)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	French
Active years	1950
Teams	Ferrari, Talbot-Lago (works and non-works)
Entries	5
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	3
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1950 Monaco Grand Prix
Last entry	1950 Italian Grand Prix
Champ Car career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	10th (1936)
First race	1936 Vanderbilt Cup (Westbury)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1931–1935, 1937–1939, 1950
Teams	de Costier, privateer, Chinetti
Best finish	1st (1932, 1933)
Class wins	2 (1932, 1933)

Pierre Raymond Sommer (31 August 1906 – 10 September 1950)^[1] was a French racing driver.^[2] He raced both before and after WWII with some success, particularly in endurance racing. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in both 1932 and 1933, and although he did not reach the finishing line in any subsequent appearance at the Le Mans, he did lead each event until 1938. Sommer was also competitive at the highest level in Grand Prix motor racing, but did not win a race. He won the French Grand Prix in 1936, but the event that year was run as a sports car race.

After European racing resumed in the late 1940s, Sommer again won a number of sports car and minor Grand Prix events, and finished in fourth place in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, the second round of the newly-instituted Formula One World Drivers' Championship. He was killed toward the end of 1950, when his car overturned during a race at the Circuit de Cadours.