Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, 7th Duke of Galliera

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Javier Villa in the Racing Engineering GP2 Dallara 2008 in Barcelona

Don Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón y Ferrara-Pignatelli, Duke of Galliera (born January 2, 1968 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife ) is a Spanish nobleman and former racing team owner and car racing driver .

family

Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón is a member of the Spanish lineage of the House of Orléans . His grandfather was Álvaro de Orleans-Borbón, 6th Duke of Galliera (1910-1997). After his death in 1997 he inherited the title Duke of Galliera , as his father had died in 1975. His great-grandmother was Beatrice von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1884-1996), the daughter of Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900), the second son of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), and his wife Marija Alexandrowna Romanowa (1853–1920), daughter of the Russian emperor Alexander II .

As a Catholic , he is excluded from the line of succession in the United Kingdom . From 1994 to 2001 he was married to the bourgeois Belgian Véronique Goeders . A son came from the connection.

Racing career

Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón was active as a racing driver in the 1990s. He competed in the International GT Endurance Series and started in 1997 for Kremer Racing in the FIA GT Championship . His best result in an international sports car race was second overall in the Kremer K8 Spyder in Paul Ricard's 2:30 hour race in 1998 .

He competed twice in the Le Mans 24-hour race . In 1994 he and his compatriots Tomás Saldaña and Andres Vilariño achieved eleventh place overall in the Ferrari 348 GTC-LM . In 1995 another placement in the final ranking failed due to an accident.

Racing team owner

Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón founded the racing team Racing Engineering in 1999 , which he still heads today. The team was and is involved in various single post office series. Giorgio Pantano ( 2008 ) and Fabio Leimer ( GP2 series 2013 ) won the drivers' championship in the GP2 series with racing engineering cars . Among others, Neel Jani , Filipe Albuquerque , Lucas di Grassi , Alexander Rossi , Sebastian Vettel , Sébastien Buemi , Justin Wilson and Franck Montagny drove for the Spanish motorsport team.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1994 SpainSpain Repsol Ferrari España Ferrari 348 GTC-LM SpainSpain Tomás Saldaña SpainSpain Andres Vilariño Rank 11
1995 GermanyGermany Heico Motorsport Porsche 911 GT2 SpainSpain Tomás Saldaña SpainSpain Miguel Ángel de Castro failure accident

Web links

Commons : Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. About Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón
  2. Family tree
  3. Paul Ricard's 2:30 hour race in 1998