Claude Bourgoignie
Claude Bourgoignie (born May 5, 1945 in Brussels ) is a former Belgian racing driver .
Racing career
Monoposto
Claude Bourgoignie achieved his first successes in monoposto racing in Formula Ford . In this racing series he won the Belgian championship in 1967. In 1969 he finished fourth overall in the European Championships behind Gerry Birrell , Tony Trimmer and Dave Walker . This was followed by races in Formula 3 , where he was ninth in the final classification of the British championship in 1971 . He was active in Formula 2 until 1975 . His last was also his best season; the European Championship of that year he finished on a March 752 as overall seventh (champion Jacques Laffite ).
Bourgoigne once took part in a Formula 1 race . In 1979 he drove a Surtees TS20 at an event of the Aurora AFX Formula 1 series , but was unable to place.
Touring and sports cars
At the same time as his monoposto engagements, Bourgoigne competed in touring and sports car races from the start of his career . In 1969 he drove a full season in the sports car world championship for Racing Team VDS . The emergency vehicle was an Alfa Romeo T33 / 2 ; Teammate Taf Gosselin . With the defect-prone Alfa Romeo, the breakdowns increased. The duo only crossed the finish line once. The two Belgians finished eleventh in the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring . The gap to the winners Jo Siffert and Brian Redman in the Porsche 908/02 was five laps, which was more than 100 kilometers on the long Nordschleife of the Nürburgring .
In the 1970s and 1980s he competed in a wide variety of racing series. He drove in the European Touring Car Championship , the German Racing Championship and until 1991 the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps .
Claude Bourgoignie competed five times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . His best result in the final ranking was fourth in 1981 .
statistics
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1969 | Racing Team VDS | Alfa Romeo TT33 / 2 | Gustave Gosselin | failure | accident | |
1972 | Ford Motor Company Germany | Ford Capri 2600 RS | Gerry Birrell | Rank 10 and class win | ||
1981 | Claude Bourgoignie | Porsche 935K3 | John Cooper | Dudley Wood | 4th place and class win | |
1982 | Charles Ivy Racing | Porsche 935K3 | John Cooper | Paul Smith | Rank 8 | |
1985 | Cheetah Automobiles Switzerland | Cheetah G604 | John Cooper | Bernard de Dryver | failure | accident |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th |
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1969 | Racing Team VDS | Alfa Romeo T33 | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | TAR | SPA | ONLY | LEM | WAT | ZEL | |||||||
DNF | DNF | 11 | DNF | DNF | |||||||||||||||
1972 | Ford Germany | Ford Capri | BUA | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | SPA | TAR | ONLY | LEM | ZEL | WAT | ||||||
10 | |||||||||||||||||||
1979 | Team Willeme Kremer Racing |
BMW 3.0 CSL Porsche 935 |
DAY | SEB | MUG | VALLEY | DIJ | RIV | SIL | ONLY | LEM | BY | DAY | WAT | SPA | BRH | ROA | VAL | ELS |
DNF | DNF | ||||||||||||||||||
1980 | Bastos Racing | Ford Capri | DAY | BRH | SEB | MUG | MON | RIV | SIL | ONLY | LEM | DAY | WAT | SPA | MOS | ROA | VAL | DIJ | |
DNF | |||||||||||||||||||
1981 | Claude Bourgoignie Bastos Racing |
Porsche 935 Chevrolet Camaro |
DAY | SEB | MUG | MON | RIV | SIL | ONLY | LEM | BY | DAY | WAT | SPA | MOS | ROA | BRH | ||
4th | DNF | ||||||||||||||||||
1982 | Charles Ivy Racing | Porsche 935 | MON | SIL | ONLY | LEM | SPA | MUG | FUJ | BRH | |||||||||
8th | |||||||||||||||||||
1985 | Cheetah Automobiles | Cheetah G604 | MUG | MON | SIL | LEM | HOK | MOS | SPA | BRH | FUJ | SEL | |||||||
DNF | 10 |
Web links
- Claude Bourgoignie at Old Racing Cars
- Claude Bourgoignie at the Driver Database
- Claude Bourgoignie at Racing Sports Cars
Individual evidence
- ^ Belgian Formula Ford Championship 1967
- ↑ European Formula Ford Championship 1969
- ↑ British Formula 3 Championship 1971
- ^ Formula 2 European Championship 1975
- ↑ 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1969
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bourgoignie, Claude |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |