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Louis Meznarie (January 14, 1930) is a former French engine preparation expert and a team owner entrant to 24 Hours of Le Mans. ==Biography== Born in Saintry-sur-Seine, France, to a father and a mother coming from Yugoslavia, he was a boy fond of mechanical games, tinkering bicycle parts to build a racing one. At thirteen, he joined a workshop and got quickly a bicycle with an auxiliary engine. From 1945 to 1948, he works for a motorcycles factory, MR, using two-stroke engines, Sachs. In 1948 and 1949, he was soldier in French army, but involved in motorcycles maintenance. In 1950s, he began regional motocross races on a NSU Max 250 cm3 OSL : his competitors were Rémy Julienne, pioneering driving stunt performer, Roger Pinard (motorcycles seller and local champion on a Britannic one, DOT) and Georges Diani (future bodyguard of general De Gaulle, on a Monet-Goyon with a Villiers engine).〔(French) Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon : histoire contemporaine.〕 From 1959 to 1971, he was an official dealer of NSU for motorcycles and motorcars, and engine preparation expert for French races: in 1968, he opened a large workshop, in Le Plessis-Chenet (Le Coudray-Montceaux town), along the National Road 7, with the support of Shell company, and became the well-known ‘’hotting-upper’’of the French mechanical story. From 1971 to 1983, he was an official engine preparation expert for Porsche, with a lot of victories in 24 Hours of Le Mans, French Rally Championship and European Rally Championship. . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Meznarie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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