Christian Poirot

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The Porsche 910 (in the foreground) owned by Jean-Claude Andruet and Christian Poirot before the start of the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1971

Christian Poirot (born January 14, 1930 in Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont , † September 6, 1979 in Denpasar ) was a French racing driver and racing team owner.

Career

Christian Poirot began motorsport in the early 1950s and was a driver until 1977. After a few touring car races in France, his first international appearance was at the 1955 Mille Miglia , where he retired due to a technical defect in a Panhard Dyna . A year later he was 171st in the overall standings in this classic Italian road race and a few weeks later in the 12-hour race in Reims , eleventh in the small VP of his compatriot Just-Émile Vernet .

However, Poirot became internationally known in the 1960s, above all through the successes he achieved with vehicles of the Porsche brand . In 1964 , he and Claude Marbaque finished fifth in a Porsche 904 GTS in the Tour de France for automobiles and eighth overall in the Le Mans 24-hour race .

Poirot had his last start at Le Mans in 1976 when he finished 23rd in the overall standings in a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR owned by the Alméras brothers.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1965 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 904/4 GTS GermanyGermany Rolf Stommelen failure Gearbox damage
1967 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 906 Carrera 6 GermanyGermany Gerhard Koch Rank 8
1968 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 906 Carrera 6 FranceFrance Pierre Maublanc failure Engine failure
1969 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 910 FranceFrance Pierre Maublanc 9th place and class win
1970 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 910 GermanyGermany Ernst Kraus failure Engine failure
1971 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 910 FranceFrance Jean-Claude Andruet failure accident
1972 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 908/2 FranceFrance Philippe Farjon not classified
1974 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 908/2 FranceFrance Jean Rondeau Rank 19
1975 FranceFrance Christian Poirot Porsche 908/2 FranceFrance Jean-Claude Lagniez FranceFrance Gérard Cuynet EcuadorEcuador Guillermo Ortega failure drive shaft
1976 FranceFrance Alméras Fréres Porsche 911 Carrera RSR FranceFrance Robert Boubet Rank 23

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th
1955 Panhard Dyna ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR
DNF
1956 Panhard Dyna ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY SwedenSweden KRI
171
1957 Porsche 356 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM SwedenSweden KRI VenezuelaVenezuela CAR
84
1964 Porsche France Porsche 904 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly CON GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance REI GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON FranceFrance TDF United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI FranceFrance PAR
5
1965 Christian Poirot Porsche 904 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly BOL ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MUG GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance REI ItalyItaly BOZ GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI
DNF
1967 Christian Poirot Porsche 906 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM GermanyGermany HOK ItalyItaly MUG United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly CCE AustriaAustria ZEL SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY
8th
1968 Christian Poirot Porsche 906 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY BelgiumBelgium SPA United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL FranceFrance LEM
DNF
1969 Christian Poirot Porsche 910 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL
9
1970 Christian Poirot Porsche 910 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF
1971 Christian Poirot Porsche 910 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
DNF
1972 Christian Poirot Porsche 908 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
DNF
1974 Christian Poirot Porsche 908 ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly IMO FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT FranceFrance LEC United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH South Africa 1961South Africa KYA
19th

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 24 hours of mans . 1923-1992. 2 volumes. Édition d'Art JB Barthelemy, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Christian Poirot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Life data on GénéaFrance.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .