Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1966 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1974 Canadian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1966–1971 Matra 1972–1974 BRM | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Cup fifth ( 1969 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 77 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 8th | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 101 over 377 km | ||||||||
Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise (born April 26, 1937 in Paris , France , † January 5, 2015 in Dakar , Senegal ) was a French motorcycle and automobile racing driver . He was brother-in-law of the racing driver François Cevert , with whom he repeatedly formed a driver pairing in sports car races.
Career
Motorcycling
Beltoise began his motorcycle career and was one of the most successful French motorcycle athletes in the early 1960s. From 1961 to 1964 he won the title in the French motorcycle championship four times in a row in the class up to 125 cm³, in the same years three times the title in the classes up to 175 cm³ and up to 250 cm³ and once the title in the 500 cm³ Class. He also took part in the classes up to 50, up to 125 and up to 250 cm³ in the motorcycle world championship , his best placement here was sixth place in the 50 cm³ class in 1964 . That year he also achieved his best individual result, third place behind Hugh Anderson and Hans Georg Anscheidt at the French Grand Prix , also in the 50 cc class on Kreidler .
Automobile sport
Monopostos
In 1965 he won the championship title in French Formula 3 . He then rose to Formula 2, in 1966 he made his debut alongside Jo Schlesser at Matra Sports in the Formula 2 European Championship , which he won in 1968 with a Matra MS7 . Beltoise stayed with Matra until 1969 in this series; the following year he moved to the works team of the young French designer Pygmée , for which he did not, however, achieve any success.
Beltoise made his Formula 1 debut in 1966 . The occasion was the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring , which was advertised for both Formula 1 and Formula 2 cars. Both classes drove at the same time, but were rated separately. The Formula 2 drivers therefore did not receive any points for the Formula 1 World Championship. 30 drivers registered for this event, including eleven Formula 2 drivers. One of them was Beltoise, who drove a Matra MS5 here . Beltoise finished the race as the best Formula 2 driver in eighth place overall, ahead of Hubert Hahne .
In the automobile world championship in 1967 Matra Sports made its debut with a works team in Formula 1, but competed with a Matra MS7 according to Formula 2 regulations. The missions should serve to prepare for entry with your own Formula 1 car in the following year. The team competed in the Monaco , USA and Mexico Grand Prix . Beltoise was the first factory driver. In Monaco he missed the qualification, in each of the two North American races he finished seventh outside the points.
With the start of the automobile world championship in 1968 , Matra expanded its involvement in Formula 1. In addition to the Matra Sports factory team , which used a Matra chassis with its own twelve-cylinder engine, Matra supplied the Tyrrell team, also known as Matra International , with similar but not identical chassis, which were equipped with eight-cylinder Cosworth engines. Beltoise contested the Spanish Grand Prix for Tyrrell, but drove the rest of the season for the Matra factory team. With the Matra MS1 , he came into the points twice in 1968: At the Dutch Grand Prix , Beltoise finished second behind Jackie Stewart in the Matra-Cosworth of the Tyrrell team, and he finished fifth in the Italian Grand Prix . Overall, Beltoise finished ninth in the drivers' standings in his first Formula 1 year.
In 1969 Beltoise switched to Matra International . He became a teammate of Jackie Stewart, who won the Formula 1 World Championship for the first time that year. Beltoise finished his home race at the Charade in Clermont-Ferrand in second place behind Stewart. In Spain and Italy he was third. This year he drove the all-wheel drive Matra MS84 once , but did not finish in the points. With 21 points, Beltoise achieved fifth place in the drivers' standings this year, the best result in his Formula 1 career.
In the 1970 Automobile World Championship , Beltoise returned to the Matra factory team. His brother-in-law, François Cevert, took over his place at Tyrrell in the spring of 1970 . At Matra, his sporting success waned. In 1970 he finished ninth in the drivers' championship with 16 points, the following year he only scored one point and was 22nd at the end of the year.
From 1972 until the end of the 1974 season, Beltoise drove 40 races for the BRM team. In his first year for BRM, he scored his only Grand Prix victory in Monaco . At the same time, that was (besides second place in South Africa in 1974 ) the only podium finish that Beltoise achieved for BRM. Beltoise contested his last Formula 1 race at the 1974 Canadian Grand Prix . In the last race of the 1974 season, at the US Grand Prix , he could not start due to an injury sustained in the training run.
Beltoise scored a total of 77 championship points in his Formula 1 appearances . He drove the fastest race lap four times.
Sports car racing
From 1963 Beltoise also drove sports car races . In 1964 he had a serious accident at the 12-hour race for sports cars in Reims , in which he broke his arm. In January 1971, Beltoise was involved in a serious accident in a sports car race in Buenos Aires , in which Ignazio Giunti was killed. Beltoise had emptied the tank of his Matras and was about to push the car across the home straight to the boxes. Giunti collided with the Matra, the car went up in flames and Giunti died in the hospital of his severe burns. Beltoise was fined and the FIA temporarily revoked his racing licenses.
Rallycross and touring cars
After his active career in Formula 1, Beltoise completed some tests for the Ligier Formula 1 team . He later competed in touring car races in France, where he won the title twice for the BMW team. He also won the French championship title at rallycross in 1979 in an Alpine A310 with a 1600 cc engine. In 1981 he returned to the touring car championship. During the 1980s he started for Peugeot .
Private life
In 1966 Beltoise's first wife, Éliane, was killed in an automobile accident. The following year he married Jacqueline Cevert, the older sister of the future Grand Prix pilot François Cevert . Beltoise and Cevert were close friends. Both competed as teammates in sports car races. Jean-Pierre Beltoise had two sons, Anthony and Julien Beltoise, who are both racing drivers. Beltoise died on January 5, 2015 while on vacation in Senegal's capital Dakar as a result of two strokes at the age of 77.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
Grand Prix victories
- 1972 Monaco Grand Prix ( Monte Carlo )
general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1966 | Matra Sports | Matra MS5 | Ford-Cosworth 1.0 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| 1967 | Matra Sports | Matra MS7 | Ford-Cosworth 1.6 L4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| 1968 | Matra Sports | Matra MS7 | Ford-Cosworth 1.6 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 9. |
| Matra MS11 | Matra 3.0 V12 | 10 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | ||||
| Matra International | Matra MS10 | Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| 1969 | Matra International | Matra MS10 | Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 21st | 5. |
| Matra MS80 | 9 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | |||||
| Matra MS84 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 1970 | Equipe Matra Elf | Matra-Simca MS120 | Matra 3.0 V12 | 13 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 16 | 9. |
| 1971 | Equipe Matra Sports | Matra-Simca MS120B | Matra 3.0 V12 | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 22nd |
| 1972 | Marlboro BRM | BRM P160B | BRM 3.0 V12 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | 11. |
| BRM P160C | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| BRM P180 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 1973 | Marlboro BRM | BRM P160D | BRM 3.0 V12 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 10. |
| BRM P160E | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 1974 | Team Motul BRM | BRM P160E | BRM 3.0 V12 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 13. |
| BRM P201 | 12 | - | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| total | 86 | 1 | 3 | 4th | - | 4th | 77 | ||||
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th |
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| 6th | 3 | DNF | 8th | 2 | 9 | 12 * | 3 | 4th | DNF | 5 | |||||
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| DNF | DNF | DNF | 5 | DNF | DNF | DNF | 11 | DNF | 5 | DNF | 5 | 13 | 4th | 9 | |
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| 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 |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1963 |
Automobiles René Bonnet
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René Bonnet Aerodjet LM6 |
Claude Bobrowski
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11th place and class win | |
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Automobiles René Bonnet
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René Bonnet Aerodjet |
Gérard Laureau
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failure | fuel pump |
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Matra Sports SARL
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Matra MS620 |
Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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failure | Gearbox damage |
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Equipe Matra Sports
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Matra MS630 |
Johnny Servoz-Gavin
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failure | Oil pump |
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Equipe Matra ELF
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Matra MS650 |
Piers Courage
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Rank 4 | |
| 1970 |
Equipe Matra-Simca
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Matra-Simca MS660 |
Henri Pescarolo
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failure | Power transmission |
| 1971 |
Equipe Matra-Simca
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Matra-Simca MS660 |
 Chris Amon
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failure | Petrol injection |
| 1972 |
Equipe Matra-Simca Shell
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Matra-Simca MS670 |
Chris Amon
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failure | accident |
| 1973 |
Equipe Matra-Simca Shell
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Matra-Simca MS670B |
François Cevert
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failure | accident |
| 1974 |
Equipe Gitanes
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Matra-Simca MS680 |
Jean-Pierre Jarier
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failure | Engine failure |
| 1975 |
Gitanes Automobiles Ligier
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Ligier JS2 |
Jean-Pierre Jarier
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failure | accident |
| 1976 |
Inaltera
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Inaltera LM |
Henri Pescarolo
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Rank 8 and class win | |
| 1977 |
Inaltera
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Inaltera LM77 |
Al Holbert
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Rank 13 | |
| 1979 |
Jean Rondeau
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Rondeau M379 |
Henri Pescarolo
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Rank 10 |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
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Web links
- Beltoises official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cimarosti: Das Jahrhundert des Rennsports , p. 225. The reason for the opening of the starting field was the extraordinary length of the course. Given a lap length of more than 22 kilometers, only 14 laps were driven. In order to provide more entertainment value for the audience, the organizers allowed additional cars.
- ^ "Jean-Pierre Beltoise est décédé". www.lequipe.fr, January 5, 2015, accessed January 5, 2015 (French).
- ↑ The motorsport world mourns Jean-Pierre Beltoise. www.motorsport-total.com, January 5, 2015, accessed January 5, 2015 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beltoise, Jean-Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beltoise, Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 2015 |
| Place of death | Dakar , Senegal |