Frédéric Daniel Comte (8 January 1976 – 4 September 2015)
was a French
rally driver
Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed ...
.
He died in a crash at the
Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine, a round of the 2015
French Rally Championship. The
Citroën Xsara
The Citroën Xsara () is a compact C-segment family car, produced by the French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën, under their Citroën marque, from 1997 to 2006. The Xsara was a development of the Citroën ZX and Peugeot 306, which shared a platfo ...
that Comte and his wife and co-driver Angelique Comte were driving crashed on SS2. Frédéric Comte died at the scene whilst Angelique was badly injured. The rally was restarted at the behest of the driver's family.
Comte, a professional rally driver since 2001, was involved in another serious crash at the same event in 2006. He crashed out of the 31st rally of the Rallye des Vins Mâcon in 2014.
External links
eWRC results
References
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French rally drivers
1976 births
2015 deaths
Racing drivers who died while racing
Sport deaths in France