Jean-Marc Gounon

Jean-Marc Gounon

Nation:	France
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1993 Japanese Grand Prix
Last start:	1994 Portuguese Grand Prix
Constructors
1993  Minardi  1994  Simtek
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 9 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Jean-Marc Gounon (born January 1, 1963 in Aubenas ) is a French racing driver and the father of Jules Gounon . He contested nine Formula 1 races, but did not score any championship points.

Career

Beginnings in motorsport

Gounon first appeared in 1989 when he won the French Formula 3 championship . From 1990 to 1992 he drove in Formula 3000 , where he showed a consistent performance and took several victories.

formula 1

1993

In 1993 , Gounon entered Formula 1. Initially, the March Engineering team was planned. March has suffered financial hardship since the former team owner Akira Akagi was arrested in September 1991 and had only been able to get through the 1992 season with great difficulty. For 1993, the team management had planned to use two cars for Gounon and Jan Lammers . The team, the cars and also the drivers showed up for the opening race in South Africa; however, the team management did not have enough money to sell the cars at South African customs. In addition, there were no engines, as Ilmor , the envisaged engine supplier, initially insisted on the payment of invoices due from 1992. The March Engineering team therefore entered neither the South African Grand Prix nor any other race in the 1993 season and was later liquidated.

Gounon later made his Formula 1 debut at the Japanese Grand Prix . For the last two races of the season, he bought the Italian team Minardi and replaced Christian Fittipaldi , whereupon there was a legal dispute between Minardi and Fittipaldi because the Brazilian had paid in advance for the entire 1993 season. Gounon dropped out in both races.

1994

For the 1994 season he did not succeed in getting a cockpit. For his home race, the French Grand Prix , he replaced the Italian Andrea Montermini at the British racing team Simtek , who was unable to participate in the following races due to a broken leg. Gounon drove the Grand Prix of France, England, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Portugal for Simtek. In each of these races he was able to qualify his Simtek S941 . Nevertheless, he was replaced after seven races during the season by Domenico Schiattarella , who brought new sponsorship money to the team. Thus, Gounon's Formula 1 career was over after nine races.

FIA GT Championship

He then switched to the FIA GT Championship and in 1997 drove three podium places for Gulf Team Davidoff . In the same year he competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and won the GT1 class. Gounon stayed in the FIA-GT in the 1998 season and shared a Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR with Marcel Tiemann . In the first race in Oschersleben he finished on the podium and was able to place several places in the top ten in subsequent races. In 1999 he was to start for the AMG-Mercedes factory team in Le Mans. Mark Webber , with whom he shared the vehicle, overturned during practice at the end of the Mulsanne Straight, with the vehicle destroyed and withdrawn by the team.

Sports prototypes

In addition to the 24-hour race at Le Mans, he drove for the French DAMS team in the FIA sports car championship . Gounon contested six of the nine championship races in a prototype , won four races with Éric Bernard , including the 2:30 hour race in Donington , and dropped out in the other two races with technical defects. Together with DAMS he also took part in some races of the American Le Mans Series in 1999 . Gounon achieved his best result together with Christophe Tinseau at the Grand Prix of Las Vegas . There he finished the race behind two prototypes of the Schnitzer works team , to which he switched in the following season. Together with Bill Auberlen, Gounon now drove a BMW V12 LMR . However, the driver pairing was unable to match the performance of the sister car and finished every race behind Jörg Müller and JJ Lehto . From 2004 to 2007 Gounon drove for Courage Compétition in the newly established Le Mans Series . His best results were two LMP2 class wins in the 2004 season.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1993	Minardi team	Minardi M193	Ford HB 3.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	32.
1994	MTV Simtek Ford	Simtek S941	Ford HB 3.5 V8	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	29
total				9	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1993
															DNF	DNF
1994
							9	16	DNF	DNF	11	DNF	15th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1995	Société Venturi SA	Venturi 600SLM	Paul Belmondo	Arnaud Trévisiol	not classified
1996	Ennea SRL Igol	Ferrari F40 GTE	Paul Belmondo	Eric Bernard	failure	electronics
1997	Gulf Team Davidoff	McLaren F1 GTR	Not so Olofsson	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Rank 2 and class win
1998	AMG Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM	Christophe Bouchut	Ricardo Zonta	failure	Engine failure
2000	Thomas Bscher PhD	BMW V12 LM	Thomas Bscher	Geoff Lees	failure	accident
2001	Johansson Motorsport	Audi R8	Stefan Johansson	Tom Coronel	failure	electronics
2003	Courage Compétition	Courage C60	Stéphan Grégoire	Jonathan Cochet	Rank 7
2004	Courage Compétition	Courage C65	Sam Hancock	Alexander Frei	failure	Fire
2005	Audi Playstation ORECA	Audi R8	Franck Montagny	Stéphane Ortelli	Rank 4
2006	Courage Compétition	Courage LC70	Haruki Kurosawa	Shinji Nakano	failure
2008	Epsilon Euskadi	Epsilon Euskadi ee1	Stefan Johansson	Shinji Nakano	failure	Power transmission

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	BMW Motorsport	BMW V12 LMR	Bill Auberlen	Steve Soper	Rank 4

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