Alain Serpaggi

On a Ligier JS2 , Alain Serpaggi and Jacques Laffite finished eighth in the 1974 24-hour race at Le Mans

Alain Serpaggi (born September 19, 1938 in Antananarivo ) is a former French racing driver .

Racing career

Alain Serpaggi was born in Madagascar and grew up in France. He began his career in the 1960s and was one of those drivers of this era who contested monoposto , sports car races and rallies in parallel. He achieved his first successes in 1966 on a Triumph Spitfire , with which he was overall sixth in the Coupes de Vitesse (winner Robert Buchet in a Porsche 906 ) in Montlhéry . In 1968 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where he and Alain LeGuellec drove an Alpine A210 to ninth place in the overall standings. Serpaggi competed five times in the 24-hour race in western France. In 1969 he was a member of the Alpine works team and secured a class win for the Dieppe team . He achieved the best placement in the final ranking in 1974 as eighth with Jacques Laffite in the Ligier JS2 . His last appearance was in 1989 when he made a comeback for the Louis Descartes team after 15 years of absence .

His greatest success in sports car racing was the overall victory in the 1974 European 2-liter sports car championship , which he achieved in an Alpine A441 in front of his colleagues Gérard Larrousse and Jean-Pierre Jabouille . In 1971 Serpaggi took part in the first season of the French Formula Renault championship , which arose from Formula France. He finished second in the championship behind Michel Leclère . He had less success in his appearances in the British and Italian Formula 3 championships .

In the 1980s, Alain Serpaggi was mainly active as a rally driver . In 1985, after seven victories of the season on a Renault 5 Turbo, he became French rally champion in Division 2.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	Ecurie Savin-Calberson	Alpine A210	Alain LeGuellec		Rank 9
1969	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A210	Christian Ethuin		Rank 12 and class win
1973	Automobiles Charles Pozzi	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	José Dolhem		Rank 9
1974	Automobiles Ligier	Ligier JS2	Jacques Laffite		Rank 8
1989	Automobiles Louis Descartes	ALD C289	Yves Hervalet	Louis Descartes	failure	Leak in the radiator

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1968	Ecurie Calberson	Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												9
1969	Alpine	Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										12
1973	Charles Pozzi	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										9
1974	Ligier	Ligier JS2	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
			8th				8th	DNF
1989	Louis Descartes	ALC C289	SUZ	DIJ	JAR	BRH	ONLY	DON	SPA	MEX
				DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF	17th

Web links

Commons : Alain Serpaggi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alain Serpaggi at Old Racing Cars
• Alain Serpaggi at the Driver Database
• Alain Serpaggi at Racing Sports Cars
• Alain Serpaggi at EWRC-Results

Individual evidence

1. ^ Coupes de Vitesse 1966
2. ↑ European Sports Car Championship 1974
3. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1971