Musy was born on 13 December 1917 in
Bern,
Switzerland, the son of the Swiss president
Jean-Marie Musy. He received an
agriculture engineering degree from
L'institut agricole de l'État de Fribourg in Grangeneuve / FR - Switzerland, and served in the air force during the Swiss military mobilisation
World War II. During 1945 he rescued a large number (1,200) of Jews from the
concentration camp Theresienstadt with his father. He also received one of the first Swiss parachute jumper licenses in 1947.
Motorcycle racing He acquired further fame as a motorcycle racer, winning six Swiss championships with
Moto Guzzi motorcycles. He also competed in the
1949 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix, part of the inaugural
Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. He competed in three more Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix races, finishing as high as fourth place.
Automobile racing Later he moved to racing cars. He had various ones, all
Maserati. Musy started in May 1954, with a 1953
Maserati A6 or
A6GCS (#2040), a Maserati factory race car, formerly used by Giletti, the official Maserati pilot. With this car he has won several races, including some record laps, on different tracks. He sold the car in 1955 to
Pietro Pagliarini. At that time, Musy was already part of the semi-official Maserati racing team. He took part of several races, with very little success, in a
150,
200S, and
200Si. He even participated at a race in
Dakar in a
250; he failed to finish. After a test drive in the
Swedish Grand Prix, he bought a
Maserati 300S (#3057) in 1955, with which he earned several podium results. Musy died in a racing event at
Autodrome de Montlhéry, France, on 7 October 1956, crashing a factory
Maserati 200S (#2047) over an embankment, after a steering column breakdown. Ejected from the car, he died immediately. In total, he attended eleven mid-1950s European sports car championships, of which he won five. == Auto racing results ==