{"id":42281,"date":"2018-03-02T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/comas-erik-francia\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:38:04","slug":"comas-erik-francia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/comas-erik-francia\/","title":{"rendered":"Comas \u00c9rik &#8211; FRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00c9rik Gilbert Comas<\/b>\u00a0(Romans-sur-Is\u00e8re,\u00a028 September 1963) is a French former racing driver of <strong>Formula 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After <strong>winning<\/strong> a <strong>Formula 3000 Championship<\/strong> in 1990, he moved to <strong>Formula 1<\/strong>: he was hired by <strong>Ligier<\/strong>, where he stayed for a couple of years, obtaining the 5th place as best result in French Grand Prix in 1992. Then he moved to <strong>Larrousse<\/strong>, running for it from 1993 to 1994 obtaining points in other 3 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>He became <strong>famous<\/strong> for an episoide in the last year of his career, in 1994. During <strong>Imola Grand Prix<\/strong> the champion<strong> Ayrton Senna<\/strong> had a <strong>terrible acciden<\/strong>t and <strong>died<\/strong>. Unfortunately\u00a0 The French racing driver stopped at the pits and he wasn&#8217;t told about this. So he almost turned up at\u00a0the emergency vehicles that were try to save the brasilian racing driver.\u00a0Traumatised from the scene of the accident &#8211; he saw Senna died in the car &#8211; he decided to <strong>leave<\/strong> forever <strong>Formula 1.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Steering Wheels<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">French driver Erik Comas, to whom this <strong>PERSONAL<\/strong> steering wheel belongs, had a very short career in Formula 1, which he left in 1994. The <strong>1992<\/strong> Formula 1 World Championship was a bit hard to digest for the French star, who had to settle for 5th place at the French Grand Prix as his best finish. The following year the driver left team <strong>Ligier<\/strong> and moved to <strong>Larrousse<\/strong>, with which he raced the last two years of his career.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <strong>1993<\/strong> he was hired by the French team Larrousse, with which he competed holding this <strong>PERSONAL<\/strong> steering wheel in the Formula 1 World Championship , where is best placing was a 6th place at the Italian Grand Prix.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This <strong>PERSONAL<\/strong> steering wheel was the one that the French driver was holding during the<strong> Imola Grand Prix<\/strong>, where Ayrton Senna died in an accident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Source: Wikipedia; Formula1.com)<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n        <!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php -->\r\n        <div id='gallery-1' class='lu-gallery gallery galleryid-42281'><dl class='gallery-item ' title='Museo Nicolis - Volante Personal - Ligier - 1992' >\r\n            <dt class='gallery-icon '>\r\n               <a data-title=\"Museo Nicolis - Volante Personal - Ligier - 1992\"  class=\"\"  href='https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1992-7.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1992-7-736x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Museo Nicolis, Villafranca Verona, Volante Personal Ligier 1992, Comas \u00c9rik, auto d&#039;epoca, ph Museo Nicolis\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1992-7-736x600.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1992-7-768x627.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n            <\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item ' title='Museo Nicolis - Volante Personal - Larrousse - 1993' >\r\n            <dt class='gallery-icon '>\r\n               <a data-title=\"Museo Nicolis - Volante Personal - Larrousse - 1993\"  class=\"\"  href='https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1993-1-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1993-1-1-693x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Museo Nicolis, Villafranca Verona, Volante Personal Larrousse 1993, Comas \u00c9rik, auto d&#039;epoca, ph Museo Nicolis\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1993-1-1-693x600.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1993-1-1-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n            <\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item ' title='Museo Nicolis -Volante Personal - Larrousse - 1994' >\r\n            <dt class='gallery-icon '>\r\n               <a data-title=\"Museo Nicolis -Volante Personal - Larrousse - 1994\"  class=\"\"  href='https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1994-1-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1994-1-1-686x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Museo Nicolis, Villafranca Verona, Volante Personal Larrousse 1994, Comas \u00c9rik, auto d&#039;epoca, ph Museo Nicolis\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1994-1-1-686x600.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/html\/uploads\/2018\/03\/COMAS-PERSONAL-1994-1-1-768x672.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n            <\/dt><\/dl>\r\n            <br style='clear: both;' \/>\r\n        <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9rik Gilbert Comas\u00a0(Romans-sur-Is\u00e8re,\u00a028 September 1963) is a French former racing driver of Formula 1. After winning a Formula 3000 Championship in 1990, he moved to Formula 1: he was hired by Ligier, where he stayed for a couple of years, obtaining the 5th place as best result in French Grand Prix in 1992. 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