Tracta, 1929 race car

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this racing car?

[Manuel]

Chenard Walker??

[grobmotorix]

No, but it is french and the make is, I think, better known than Chenard & Walcker.

[grobmotorix]

One step up to the Experts.

[RayTheRat]

1923 Bugatti Type 32 Tank?

[grobmotorix]

Not a Bugatti.

[D-type]

1929 Tracta front wheel drive 933cc

[grobmotorix]

Right, it´s the victorious Tracta at the 1929 Gaillon race, with its driver Monsieur Bourcier.

[Wendax]

The engine was a supercharged two-stroke unit!

[grobmotorix]

And it had front wheel drive, of course.

An exclusive mixture, indeed...

[D-type]

The car pictured ran at Le Mans in 1929 driven by R Bourcier and Tribaudot.  It failed to finish.

I may have the capacity wrong as the book I'm consulting says 933, 985, 988, 993, & 999 cc for the four Tractas in the race!

[Wendax]

I may have the capacity wrong as the book I'm consulting says 933, 985, 988, 993, & 999 cc for the four Tractas in the race!

Bellu has this one as 999 cc.

[grobmotorix]

Let´s call it Tracta 1000, O.K.? 

[Allan L]

The engine was a supercharged two-stroke unit!

Gegoire in Best Wheel Forward (trans Charles Miesl) "In 1929 again three Tractas started [at Le Mans]. Fenaille also entered under the same name a car of his own design equipped with a curious engine, a two-stroke, twin cylinder engine with two pistons per cylinder and equipped with a supercharger"
Normal Tracras had SCAP engines, some with Cozette supercharging.
I have a photo of this car when it ran at Le Mans driven by Bourcier and Tribaudot (as Duncan has stated) but I can't be sure it's a Gregoire Tracta or the Fenaille job.