Pierre Dumay's Car Collection

Pierre Dumay, also known as Loustel, was born on November 20, 1928, in Algiers and died on August 22, 2021, in Saint-Tropez. He was a French circuit racing driver who competed in Grand Touring (GT) events.

He began his motorsport career in motorcycle racing in 1953.

He transitioned to car racing in 1955, starting with the Tour of Algeria in a Peugeot 203, and continued until 1967, when he made his sixth and final appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, driving a factory-entered Ford GT40 Mk.I 4.7L V8 with Henri Greder. His first racing victory came in 1956 at the Bougie circuit in a Simca Aronde, and his first race in mainland France was in 1958, during the Tour de France Automobile.

In 1959, after a string of hill climb wins (Murdjadjo, La Grenouillère, Le Pin), he scored class victories at the Urcy and Faucille hill climbs in a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Tour de France , and another overall win in Constantine, this time in a Ferrari 250 GT Interim.

In 1960, he finished second overall and in the GT category at the Tour de France Automobile, partnering with Jo Schlesser in a 250 GT SWB, and fourth in the Rouen Grand Prix (4 Hours of Rouen) in a 250 GT Interim. That same year, with Fernand Tavano, he won the second edition of the Alger-Hassi Messaoud-Alger Petroleum Route Rally, driving a 250 GT Interim. The year before, the pair had finished first (Tavano, Ferrari 500 TRC) and second (Dumay, Ferrari 250 GT Interim) at the Staoueli Circuit, with Dumay also winning the BP-Bouzaréa Grand Prix in a Ferrari TdF, shortly after his first Petroleum Route Rally (Philippeville-Messaoud-Constantine, with co-driver Berliet).

Dumay also finished third at the 1960 Paris Grand Prix at Montlhéry in a Ferrari 250 GT, and at the 1961 Auvergne Trophy (first 6 Hours of Charade) with Pierre Noblet, again in the same car. He also placed fourth twice at the 1000 km of Paris in 1960 and 1961, partnering with Tavano and then Schlesser.

Dumay competed at Le Mans half the time with Belgian teams, and he finished in the top five three times during the early 1960s. He was second overall (and second in class) in 1965, with Gustave Gosselin in a Ferrari 250 LM 3.3L V12, running under his private team. He also finished fourth in 1960 (with Tavano, in his 250 GT SWB 3L V12, which won the GT category), and again in 1963 (with Belgian Léon Dernier, aka Eldé, in his 250 GTO 3L V12, entered by Écurie Francorchamps). Just one month prior to the 1963 Le Mans, Dumay had also won the first-ever Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, driving a GT SWB.

His final podium came at the 1965 Angola Grand Prix, in the same Ferrari 250 LM that had finished second at Le Mans earlier that year.

After retiring from racing, Pierre Dumay founded a group specializing in automotive spare parts distribution, with a presence notably in New Caledonia. He invested part of his wealth in Val d'Isère during the 1990s. As of 2017, he was still actively overseeing his business operations from his office in Geneva.