Écurie Rosier and Équipe Rosier were names used by French racing driver Louis Rosier to enter his own cars in

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between 1950 and his death in 1956. Commonly the vehicles were entered for Rosier himself, but he also provided cars for a number of other drivers during the period. Between 1950 and 1957 Ecurie Rosier collected a total fifteen World Championship points and one podium finish.

Formula One

Louis Rosier began entering cars in

under his own name in 1950, first with a

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T26C with some success, recording two points-scoring finishes from his nine World Championship entries in 1950 and 1951. He also entered cars for

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and Louis Chiron during these seasons. In Rosier started racing

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, recording only one non-points scoring finish from his four World Championship entries. was a better season for Rosier, finishing in the top ten five times from his seven entries, but failing to score any points. was the best season for Ecurie Rosier, with fellow Frenchman

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finishing fourth in

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and Robert Manzon finishing a strong third at the team's home Grand Prix. For the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix Rosier entered the new

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250F, and finished in seventh position. In Rosier returned to entering only a single car for himself. He retired in

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and finished ninth in both

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and

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. For Rosier again entered the

. He started the season with a retirement at

before finishing eighth in

and sixth in

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. After starting twenty-seventh in

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, Rosier retired on lap twenty-three when his electrics failed. The 1956 German Grand Prix, where Rosier finished a strong fifth, proved to be the last Grand Prix of Écurie Rosier because Louis Rosier died of injuries he sustained in a crash at the Montlhéry track, south of

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, on 7 October 1956.''French Driver Dies'', Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1956, Page C4.

Complete Formula One results

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References

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