Hervé Bayard

Hervé Bayard's first racing motorcycle; a Moto Morini 175 Settebello

Hervé Bayard (born November 20, 1944 in Amiens ) is a former French motorcycle and car racing driver who also has Belgian citizenship.

Racing career

Hervé Bayard began his motorcycle racing career in the 1960s . The first racing motorcycle was a 175 cm³ Moto-Morini 175 Settebello. In 1963 he was runner-up in the French 175 cc championship. In the middle of the decade he switched to motor racing. In 1966 he drove in the French Renault 8 Gordini Cup and in 1969 for a season in the French Formula 3 championship . This was followed by races in the European Formula 5000 Championship in 1971 and 1972 .

Bayard celebrated great successes in mountain racing . Between 1982 and 1993 he was Belgian mountain champion ten times. Seven times he won the Mountain Championship of Luxembourg and in 1970 on a Formula 2 - Tecno French.

In the late 1970s he competed in sports car races and competed four times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . His best place in this 24-hour race was finishing 18th in 1972 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1972	Wicky Racing Team	Porsche 907	Walter Brun	Peter Mattli	Rank 18
1973	Jean Sage	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	René Ligonnet		failure	Cylinder head gasket
1975	Racing Team Schulthess	Lola T284	Heinz Schulthess		failure	Chassis broken
1981	Écurie Renard-Delmas	Renard-Delmas D1	Louis Descartes		not classified

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
1972	Wicky Racing	Porsche 907	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
							4th				18th
1973	Jean Sage	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										DNF
1975	Heinz Schulthess	Lola T284	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
					DNF
1981	Écurie Renard-Delmas	Renard-Delmas D1	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
										DNF

Web links

• Hervé Bayard at the Driver Database
• Hervé Bayard at Racing Sports Cars
• Hervé Bayard at the 24-hour piste

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Belgian Hill Climbing Championship ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.