{"id":491787,"date":"2011-04-01T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=35551"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:07:54","slug":"guy-moll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/guy-moll\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Moll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enzo Ferrari was always a sucker for fighters who would never give up, like Tazio Nuvolari, Guy Moll and Gilles Villeneuve. In fact, he thought Moll could become the anti-Nuvolari, so talented was the little Algerian. But Guy\u2019s brief yet spectacular career came to a sudden end on August 15, 1934 in the Coppa Acerbo race at Pescara, Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Described by some as the greatest natural talent ever, Guillaume Laurent (Guy) Moll was born on May 28, 1910 to a Spanish mother and a French father, who had immigrated to Algeria. After completing his schooling, he first competed in a local event driving a Lorraine-Dietrich loaned to him for the occasion by wealthy Algerian businessman and gentleman driver Marcel Lehoux. The young man\u2019s benefactor also put Moll down for the Grand Prix of Oran in northern Algeria, and this time loaned his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 a Bugatti T35C, in which Moll immediately took the lead only to retire with mechanical problems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Described by some as the greatest natural talent ever, Guillaume Laurent (Guy) Moll was born on May 28, 1910 to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":571364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495,263,11272,261,18114,18330,18207],"tags":[18323,544,14134,5469,14703,17152,302,60,11657,17140,548,18435,2874,11304,13492,12661,11357,11346,18107,14135,16791,12698,17143,17216],"class_list":["post-491787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugatti","category-car-culture","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-people","category-profiles-car-culture","category-special-feature","tag-2010s-all","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-alfa-romeo-tipo-b-p3","tag-bugatti","tag-bugatti-type-35","tag-car-culture","tag-italy","tag-ferrari","tag-grand-prix","tag-members-only","tag-motorsport","tag-people","tag-enzo-ferrari","tag-gilles-villeneuve","tag-guy-moll","tag-louis-chiron","tag-tazio-nuvolari","tag-driver-profiles","tag-people-profiles","tag-pescara","tag-profiles","tag-coppa-acerbo","tag-special-feature","tag-vrr-column-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guy Moll<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Newman assesses the career of a promising young Algerian racer whose story was ended too soon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/guy-moll\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/guy-moll\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guy Moll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Newman assesses the career of a promising young Algerian racer whose story was ended too soon.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/guy-moll\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-01T16:00:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-27T03:07:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HE201104-p2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"688\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Robert Newman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Newman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/guy-moll\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/guy-moll\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Robert Newman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a6bb7003c06481e9ed650a2b44c3e3c3\"},\"headline\":\"Guy Moll\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-01T16:00:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-27T03:07:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/guy-moll\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1213,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/guy-moll\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/04\\\/HE201104-p2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2010s All\",\"Alfa Romeo\",\"Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3\",\"Bugatti\",\"Bugatti Type 35\",\"Car Culture\",\"Country (Italy)\",\"Ferrari\",\"Grand Prix\",\"Members Only\",\"Motorsport &amp; 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