Didier André

The Reynard 2KQ of Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière , Didier André and Christophe Pillon at the 2003 Le Mans 24-hour race

Didier André (born September 3, 1974 in Lyon ) is a French racing driver .

Career

Didier André started his karting career in 1990 . In 1991 he won the French elite championship and placed tenth in the Formula A World Championship in 1991 and fifth in the overall standings in 1992. After a year in Formula Renault , André drove regularly in the French Formula 3 championship between 1994 and 1996 . His best place in the championship was 13th overall in 1995.

In 1997 the Frenchman moved to the United States , where he was given a contract with the Autosport team. He competed for three seasons in the Indy Light series for the racing team . In 2001 he moved to the Indy Racing League, which was founded in 1994 . Although André was one of the best drivers in the Indy Light series - in 1998 he had achieved second place overall in the championship - he was unable to prevail in the next higher racing series. André returned to Europe and increasingly began to establish himself as a sports car driver. Although he drove two more seasons in the Nissan World Series , he achieved his successes in sports car races. In 2000 he made his debut for ORECA at the Le Mans 24-hour race , where he competed repeatedly until 2010 . His greatest success so far was fourth overall place in 2010, which he achieved together with Soheil Ayari and Andrew Meyrick on an ORECA 01 . In addition to the big endurance races, he was and is also at the start in the Le Mans Series and the American Le Mans Series .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Mopar Team Oreca	Rdynard 2KQ-LM	Didier Theys	Jeffrey Van Hooydonk	Rank 20
2003	Noël del Bello Racing	Reynard 2KQ-LM	Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière	Christophe Pillon	15th place and class win
2004	Taurus Sports Racing	Lola B2K / 10	Christian Vann	Benjamin Leuenberger	Rank 20
2005	Paul Belmondo Racing	Courage C65	Paul Belmondo	Rick Sutherland	Rank 22
2006	Paul Belmondo Racing	Courage C65	Yann Clairay	Jean-Bernard Bouvet	failure	accident
2007	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Jean-Luc Blanchemain	Vincent Vosse	Rank 24
2009	Signature Plus	Courage-Oreca LC70	Pierre Ragues	Franck Mailleux	Rank 11
2010	AIM Team Oreca Matmut	ORECA 01	Soheil Ayari	Andrew Meyrick	Rank 4

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 : Didier André  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Didier André at the Driver Database