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{{Short description|French racing driver (1909{{ndash}}1984)}} {{Infobox F1 driver| name = Marcel Balsa | nationality = {{flagicon|FRA}} French | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|1|1|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Creuse]], [[France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|8|11|1909|1|1|df=y}} | death_place = [[Maisons-Alfort]], [[France]] | Years = {{F1|1952}} | Team(s) = non-works [[BMW in Formula One|BMW]] | Races = 1 | Championships = 0 | Wins = 0 | Podiums = 0 | Points = 0 | Poles = 0 | Fastest laps = 0 | First race = [[1952 German Grand Prix]] | }} '''Emanuel Marcel Lucien Balsa''' (January 1, 1909<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Marcel_Balsa |title=Marcel Balsa |publisher=oldracingcars.com |accessdate=17 April 2012}}</ref> in [[Creuse]] – August 11, 1984 in [[Maisons-Alfort]]) was a French racing driver. Balsa started in racing after [[World War II]], when he acquired a [[Bugatti]] Type 51 and became quite competitive in the French national events. He later built a BMW-engined [[Formula 2]] car, and had a good reputation, until he tried a Jicey-BMW<ref>{{cite web |url=http://img.directindustry.fr/pdf/repository_di/7922/516_4b.jpg |title=516_4b.JPG (50x35 pixels) |accessdate=2012-07-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120712013254/http://img.directindustry.fr/pdf/repository_di/7922/516_4b.jpg |archivedate=2012-07-12 }} (fr) article about Jicey the French race car designer</ref> developed by Jean Caillas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jicey.com/pdf/JICEY%20NEWS%20FR-GB%202002.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528210336/http://www.jicey.com/pdf/JICEY%20NEWS%20FR-GB%202002.pdf |archivedate=2006-05-28 }} The Jicey of Jean Caillas has been found !</ref> With it he finished third in the [[Circuit de Cadours|Grand Prix of Cadours]], the same event where fellow racer [[Raymond Sommer]] was killed. He returned to his previous race car and in 1952 raced in the [[1952 German Grand Prix|German Grand Prix]] at the [[Nürburgring]], only to retire after six laps. In 1953 he won a race at [[Montlhery]] but then faded from the racing scene. {{-}}
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