{"id":12211,"date":"2019-02-16T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=12211\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T10:00:26","slug":"jean-behra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/jean-behra\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Behra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being a motorcycling champion, he switched to car races. Am\u00e9d\u00e9 Gordini wanted him in his own team. The cars weren\u2019t competitive and results were late coming. In 1955, he was hired by Maserati and he came second at the 1956 and 1957 Argentinian GP. \u00a0When the Trident\u2019s team retired from races, he was offered a contract by BRM, but the car wasn\u2019t really performing. He won some races with the Porsche RSK and he created \u201chis\u201d own F2 car with the Stuttgart horse team. It was a disappointing experience.<\/p>\n<p>He had a brief experience with Ferrari, but their relationship broke off due to some not very flattering declarations that Jean Behra made to some French journalists, after the French GP. He participated in the Avus race and he accepted to drive a Porsche instead of the BRM. That race was fatal to him\u2026 he was a driver who loved races a lot, maybe too much.<\/p>\n<p>He was an honest man, not very diplomatic and not an adulator at all. The public understood and admired him. Enzo Ferrari said \u201c<em>Jean Behra has been an <\/em>attack<em> driver. A real and very brave man. He left Ferrari as he didn\u2019t agree any more with the sports director of the time<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being a motorcycling champion, he switched to car races. Am\u00e9d\u00e9 Gordini wanted him in his own team. The cars weren\u2019t competitive and results were late coming. 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