Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, 7th Duke of Galliera
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 |
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1994 | Repsol Ferrari España | Ferrari 348 GTC-LM | Tomás Saldaña | Andres Vilariño | Rank 11 | |
1995 | Heico Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT2 | Tomás Saldaña | Miguel Ángel de Castro | failure | accident |
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Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Orléans-Borbón, Alfonso de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish nobleman and racing team owner |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Cruz de Tenerife |