The 3rd Grand Prix de Caen was a

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, run to

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rules, held on 25 July 1954 at the Circuit de la Prairie,

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Maurice Trintignant Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul Trintignant (30 October 1917 – 13 February 2005) was a motor racing driver and vintner from France. He competed in the Formula One World Championship for fourteen years, between 1950 and 1964, one of the longest caree ...

in a Ferrari 625, who started from pole position. British driver

Stirling Moss Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several categories of comp ...

in a

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finished a close second and set fastest lap.

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driver

Jacques Pollet Jacques Pollet (2 July 1922 – 16 August 1997) was a racing driver from France. He participated in 5 Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater ...

shared third place with

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after Behra crashed his own car earlier in the race.

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Caen Grand Prix The Grand Prix de Caen was an auto racing event, held in ''la Prairie'' park in Caen. Only six races were held between 1952 and 1958, the 1955 race being cancelled after that year's Le Mans disaster. The first race was run under Formula Two rules ...

, Year_of_race = 1954 , Previous_race_in_season =

1954 Rouen Grand Prix The 4th Grand Prix de Rouen-les-Essarts was a non-championship Formula One motor race held on 11 July 1954 at the Rouen-Les-Essarts circuit, in Rouen, Normandy, France. The winner was Maurice Trintignant in a Ferrari 625. Trintignant also took po ...

, Next_race_in_season = 1954 August Cup , Previous_year's_race = 1953 Caen Grand Prix , Next_year's_race =

1956 Caen Grand Prix The 1956 Caen Grand Prix was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 26 August 1956 at the Circuit de la Prairie, Caen. The race was run in very wet conditions over 70 laps of the circuit, and was won by over a minute by American driver ...

Caen Grand Prix