Dany Snobeck

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Dany Snobeck in the Peugeot 307 WRC at the 2008 Alsace Vosges Rally, a run of the French rally championship that year

Dany Snobeck (born May 2, 1946 in Tomblaine ) is a former French rally and circuit racing driver .

Racing career

Rallying

Dany Snobeck was best known as a rally driver. He drove his first rallies in France in the early 1970s. At the Tour de France for automobiles in 1972 , he reached 11th place overall, making his first international appearance. His first podium followed in 1977 at the Rallye du Var , where he was third overall behind Guy Fréquelin ( Alpine A310 ) and Christian Lunel ( Porsche 911 Carrera ). Snobeck also drove a Porsche 911 Carrera, his co-driver was Maurice Gélin . At the Rallye du Var he achieved his first overall victory in 1982, which he achieved in a Renault 5 Turbo .

In the World Rally Championship , his best finish was sixth at the Monte Carlo Rally in 1982 . In 2008, at the age of 62, he won the overall ranking of the French rally championship . He celebrated further successes at the Trophée Andros , which he won in 1992 and 1993. He won the 24-hour race in Chamonix in 1994 and 1995.

Circuit racing

Parallel to his rally activities, Snobeck also drove successfully on the racetrack. In 1974 he was second overall behind Didier Pironi in the Challenge Européen de Formule Renault and in 1976 third overall behind Pironi and Alain Cudini . A position he also achieved in 1977, this time behind Alain Prost and Jean-Louis Bousquet .

In the late 1970s he switched to touring and sports car racing . He won the overall ranking of the French Super Touring Car Championship three times in 1979, 1980 and 1984 and was involved in the Porsche Carrera Cup France for almost two decades . For two years, in 1988 and 1989 , he competed with his own racing team in the German Touring Car Championship and four times as a driver in the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where fifth place in the overall classification in 1982 was the best place in the overall classification at this 24th -Hour race was.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1977 FranceFrance Anne-Charlotte Verney BP Porsche 911 Carrera RSR FranceFrance René Metge FranceFrance Anne-Charlotte Verney FranceFrance Hubert Striebig Rank 18
1980 FranceFrance Hervé Poulain Porsche 935 FranceFrance Hervé Poulain FranceFrance Pierre Destic Rank 20
1982 United StatesUnited States Cooke Racing - BP Porsche 935 K3 FranceFrance René Metge FranceFrance François Sérvanin Rank 5
1983 FranceFrance Communaute Pays de Loire Rondeau M382 FranceFrance Alain Cudini FranceFrance Xavier Lapeyre failure Engine failure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rallye du Var 1977
  2. ^ Rallye du Var 1982
  3. ^ Challenge Européen de Formule Renault 1974
  4. ^ Challenge Européen de Formule Renault 1976
  5. ^ Challenge Européen de Formule Renault 1977
personal data
SURNAME Snobeck, Dany
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Tomblaine