Ferdinand de Lesseps (racing driver)
Ferdinand-Noël Jacques Marie de Lesseps (born June 25, 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French photographer and former racing driver for sports cars and sports prototypes .
family
His great-grandfather was the diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps , builder of the Suez Canal . Since 1996 he has been married to the daughter of the Wehrmacht officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist .
photographer
Lesseps was born in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris in 1957 . He studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York in 1977/78 and from 1978 to 1982 at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Today he has a degree in business administration and works as an art and advertising photographer in Brussels (Belgium). He had exhibitions in Paris, Brussels and Geneva.
Sports car driver
In 1982 he started his career in Formula 3 . Later he started u. a. at: 24 hours of Spa-Francorchamps , 24 hours of Daytona , 12 hours of Sebring and 24 hours of Le Mans . He took part in the FIA GT Championship and the World Sports Car Championship . At the sports car world championship in 1992 he took 7th position in the overall ranking of the driver’s world championship and first position at the FIA Cup for drivers. In 1996 he won the SuperSport Trophy .
statistics
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1990 |
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Spice SE86C |
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failure | accident |
1991 |
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Spice SE89C |
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failure | electronics |
1992 |
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Spice SE89C |
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Rank 14 | |
1993 |
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Lotus Esprit S300 |
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failure | Cylinder overheated |
1995 |
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Venturi 600LM |
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failure | electronics |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1989 |
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Chevrolet Camaro |
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Rank 32 | |
1990 |
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Spice SE88P |
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failure | electronics | |
1994 |
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Porsche 911 Turbo |
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Rank 7 |
Web links
- Ferdinand de Lessep at Racing Sports Cars
- Ferdinand de Lesseps (Arthouse Gallery)
- Photography by Ferdinand de Lesseps
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv (ed.): Genealogical manual of noble houses . Part A, Volume 25 (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 117). CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0817-5 , p. 219.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lesseps, Ferdinand de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lesseps, Ferdinand-Noël Jacques Marie de (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer and racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt |