Paul Frère

Paul Frère (born 30 January 1917 in Le Havre, France, died 23 February 2008 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France) was a Belgian journalist and racing driver. Interested in many sports and an engineer by education, Frère was at first an automotive journalist who dabbled in motorsport on-and-off from the late 1940s, racing touring cars. Making his Formula 1 début in the 1950 Belgian Grand Prix for Jacques Swaters and his Ecurie Nationale Belge, he began accepting one-off drives from various teams before signing full-time for Maserati in 1952. This coincided with a litany of bad decisions from the rapidly sinking team, resulting in few good opportunities for Frère. He was not retained for the 1955 season, but he was tempted back to the sport in 1956 by British Racing Motors. The team was equally uncompetitive, but thanks to the controversial and attrition-fuelled circumstances surrounding the 1956 East German Grand Prix, Frère scored a surprise third place out of four finishers.

More successful outside of the world championship, notably winning the Grand Prix des Frontières in 1952 and the 24 Hours of le Mans in 1960, with Olivier Gendebien.

Complete Alternate Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	WDC	Pts.
1950	Ecurie Nationale Belge	Bugatti T15	ENB-Gordini 15C 1.5 L4s	GBR	MON	500	SUI	BEL DNQ	FRA	ITA					NC	0
1951	Jaguar-Aston Martin Racing	Jaguar B-Type	Aston Martin 4.5 V6	MON DNQ	500										NC	0
	Team Metcalf GP	Metcalf MET1	Metcalf 3.4 L6			BEL Ret	FRA	GBR	GER	NED	ITA
1952	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati A6 2.0 L6	MON DNPQ	ENG Ret		FRA DNQ	GBR Ret	GER 15	NED Ret	ITA DNQ	USA	AUS 12		NC	0
	Ecurie Nationale Belge					BEL Ret
1953	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati AM53	Maserati 200F 2.0 L6	MON DNPQ	NED DNPQ	BEL DNQ	FRA DNQ	GBR DNPQ	GER DNQ	SUI DNQ	ITA DNQ	USA Ret			NC	0
1954	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati AM53	Maserati 200F 2.0 L6	MON DNPQ	FRA DNPQ	BEL DNPQ	NED DNPQ	GBR DNPQ	SUI DNPQ	GER DNQ	USA 11	ITA DNQ			NC	0
1956	British Racing Motors	AAC 555	AAC 555 2.5 L4	MON DNPQ	FRA DNPQ				IRL DNA	SCO DNA					18th	4
		BRM P25									GBR DNQ
			BRM P25 2.5 L4			BEL Ret	GER DNQ	GDR 3				ITA DNQ	THA
1957	British Racing Motors	BRM P25	BRM P26 2.5 L4	MAR DNQ	MON DNQ	FRA									NC	0
	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari R560	Ferrari RS560 2.5 L4				BEL Ret	NED	IRL	GBR	GER	ITA	ESP	USA
1958	Paul Frère	Vanwall VW57	Hernandez H/258A	AUS	MON	FRA DNPQ	NED	BEL	GER	GBR	POR	ITA	MAR	USA	NC	0

* denotes season still in progress