Guy Chasseuil

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The Porsche 908/02 by Claude Ballot-Léna and Guy Chasseuil before the start of the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans

Guy Chasseuil (born January 26, 1942 ) is a former French automobile racing driver .

Career

Guy Chasseuil began his career in the French rally championship in the early 1960s . Although he remained connected to this form of motorsport all his life, he celebrated his greatest successes in road and circuit races. In 1968 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and a year later won the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps with his long-time team partner Claude Ballot-Léna . In 1970 he celebrated his first class victory at Le Mans when he drove up to sixth overall with Ballot-Léna in a Porsche 914/6 GT . In 1970 he was also a partner of Ove Andersson and Björn Waldegård at the Marathon de la Route at the Nürburgring , where the trio took third place in the overall standings.

In his career, Chasseuil competed at Le Mans twelve times. The closest he came to overall victory was in 1975 as a works driver at Ligier . With Jean-Louis Lafosse he drove one of the three Ligier JS2s . The duo had the task of not taking part in a speed chase, but rather driving the Ligier safely to the finish line according to a precise marching table. When two JS2s had already failed that night, the team management changed their tactics and gave the Chasseuil / Lafosse car a free run. Driving record laps, the two gradually caught up with Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell's leading Gulf GR8 from Sunday morning . The strong performance of the French did not go unnoticed by the audience and cheered on the drivers loudly when the JS2 passed the grandstands. In the end, one lap was missing from overall victory. Many years later, Chasseuil still regretted the slow driving style early in the race, which might have cost him victory.

He competed in sports car races until the early 1980s and was last at the Sarthe in 1981. In the Kremer Racing team, he drove a ten-year-old Porsche 917 , which - adapted to the regulations - was the main attraction of the race. However, after only 82 laps, the Porsche had to be parked after major engine failure.

In the first half of the 1980s, Chasseuil again took part in a number of races for the World Rally Championship , such as the 1982 Corsica Rally , in which he drove a Ferrari 308 GTB from French Ferrari importer Charles Pozzi . Ten years earlier he had contested the same rally in a Ford GT70 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1968 FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet Porsche 911T FranceFrance Claude Ballot-Léna failure Engine failure
1969 FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet Porsche 911T FranceFrance Claude Ballot-Léna Rank 11
1970 FranceFrance Établissement Sonauto Porsche 914/6 GT FranceFrance Claude Ballot-Léna Rank 6 and class win
1971 FranceFrance Auguste Veuillet Porsche 908/02 FranceFrance Claude Ballot-Léna failure accident
1972 FranceFrance Société Franco-Brittanc De Tomaso Pantera FranceFrance Jean Vinatier failure Engine failure
1973 FranceFrance Porsche Sonauto BP Racing Porsche 911 Carrera RSR United StatesUnited States Peter Gregg Rank 14
1974 FranceFrance Automobiles Ligier Ligier JS2 FranceFrance Michel Leclère failure Engine failure
1975 FranceFrance Gitanes Automobiles Ligier Ligier JS2 FranceFrance Jean-Louis Lafosse Rank 2
1976 FranceFrance Ecurie Batteries-Piles TS WM P76 FranceFrance Claude Ballot-Léna FranceFrance Xavier Mathiot failure Defect on the radiator
1977 FranceFrance Hubert Striebig Porsche 934/5 FranceFrance Hubert Striebig FranceFrance Hughes Kirschoffer failure Engine failure
1978 FranceFrance Auto Daniel Urcun Porsche 934 FranceFrance Jean-Claude Lefebvre FranceFrance Marcel Mignot failure Engine failure
1981 GermanyGermany Porsche Kremer Racing Porsche 917 K81 FranceFrance Bob Wollek FranceFrance Xavier Lapeyre failure Engine failure

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
1968 Ecurie Leopard Alpine A110 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 Auguste Veuillet Porsche 911 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
11
1970 Établissement Sonauto Porsche 914 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
6th
1971 Claude Ballot-Léna 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
5 7th DNF
1972 Claude Dubois
Société Franco-Brittanc
De Tomaso Pantera 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 DNF
1973 Franco-Brittanic
Porsche Sonauto
De Tomaso Pantera
Porsche Carrera RSR
United StatesUnited States DAY ItalyItaly VAL FranceFrance DIJ ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
DNF 14th
1974 Ligier Ligier JS2 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
DNF DNF DNF DNF 6th
1976 Louis Meznarie Porsche 934 ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly VAL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL ItalyItaly IMO GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT CanadaCanada MOS FranceFrance DIJ FranceFrance DIJ AustriaAustria SAL
DNF
1978 Auto Urcun Porsche 934 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG United StatesUnited States VALLEY FranceFrance DIJ United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MIS United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT ItalyItaly VAL United StatesUnited States ROD
DNF
1981 Kremer Racing
BP Racing
Porsche 917
Ford Capri
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly MON United StatesUnited States RIV United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States WAT BelgiumBelgium SPA CanadaCanada MOS United StatesUnited States ROA United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH
DNF DNF

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