Guy Chasseuil

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	Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 911T	Claude Ballot-Léna		failure	Engine failure
1969	Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 911T	Claude Ballot-Léna		Rank 11
1970	Établissement Sonauto	Porsche 914/6 GT	Claude Ballot-Léna		Rank 6 and class win
1971	Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 908/02	Claude Ballot-Léna		failure	accident
1972	Société Franco-Brittanc	De Tomaso Pantera	Jean Vinatier		failure	Engine failure
1973	Porsche Sonauto BP Racing	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Peter Gregg		Rank 14
1974	Automobiles Ligier	Ligier JS2	Michel Leclère		failure	Engine failure
1975	Gitanes Automobiles Ligier	Ligier JS2	Jean-Louis Lafosse		Rank 2
1976	Ecurie Batteries-Piles TS	WM P76	Claude Ballot-Léna	Xavier Mathiot	failure	Defect on the radiator
1977	Hubert Striebig	Porsche 934/5	Hubert Striebig	Hughes Kirschoffer	failure	Engine failure
1978	Auto Daniel Urcun	Porsche 934	Jean-Claude Lefebvre	Marcel Mignot	failure	Engine failure
1981	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 917 K81	Bob Wollek	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	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												DNF
1969	Auguste Veuillet	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										11
1970	Établissement Sonauto	Porsche 914	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										6th
1971	Claude Ballot-Léna	Porsche 908	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
								5		7th	DNF
1972	Claude Dubois Société Franco-Brittanc	De Tomaso Pantera	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
								DNF			DNF
1973	Franco-Brittanic Porsche Sonauto	De Tomaso Pantera Porsche Carrera RSR	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
					DNF					14th
1974	Ligier	Ligier JS2	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
			DNF	DNF			DNF	DNF		6th
1976	Louis Meznarie	Porsche 934	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
							DNF
1978	Auto Urcun	Porsche 934	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	SIL	ONLY	LEM	MIS	DAY	WAT	VAL	ROD
										DNF
1981	Kremer Racing BP Racing	Porsche 917 Ford Capri	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
										DNF				DNF

Web links

Commons : Guy Chasseuil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Image: Guy Chasseuil in the Porsche 917, at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1981
• Guy Chasseuil at Racing Sports Cars