Didier Bonnet

Debora LMP296

Didier Bonnet (born April 28, 1949 - January 12, 2011 ) was a French racing driver and racing car designer.

Career as a driver

Bonnet was a well-known and successful French hill climber . Between 1971 and 1983 he was able to win 100 hill climbs in the French and European championships . As a sports car driver, his greatest achievement was eleventh place in the 1998 Kyalami 2.5-hour race . The race was part of the 1998 FIA Sports Car Championship and was won by Jérôme Policand and Gary Formato on a Riley & Scott Mk III . Bonnet shared the cockpit of a Debora LMP297 with Jean-Claude de Castelli and Philippe Favre . Eleventh place in the overall standings was synonymous with success in the SR2 class.

Racing car designer and team boss

In the tradition of his compatriots Jean Rondeau and Yves Courage , Bonnet began designing and building racing cars in the early 1990s. As with Rondeau and Courage, the goal of their own racing team was to take part in the Le Mans 24-hour race . From Bonnet Auto Racing 1992 Debora . The in-house designs were initially based on Tiga technology and were used in sports car races until 2000. The best placing of a Debora in Le Mans was the 20th place of Patrice Roussel , Eduoard Sezionale and Bernard Santal in the LMP295 1995 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1992	Didier Bonnet Autoracing	Debora 92	Gérard Tremblay	Jacques Heuclin	failure	Clutch damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1992	Didier Bonnet	Debora 92	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

• Information on Didier Bonnet (French)
• Didier Bonnet at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kyalami 2.5 Hour Race 1998