Hervé Regout

The WR LM94 driven by Hervé Regout, Jean-François Yvon and Jean-Paul Libert at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Hervé Regout (born November 4, 1954 in Liège ) is a former Belgian racing driver .

Monopostosport

The Wallone Regout drove its first international car races in the British Formula 3 Championship in the mid-1970s. 1979 tried to gain a foothold in Formula 1 through an engagement in the Aurora AFX Formula 1 series . For RAM Racing he contested a few races of the season on a Chevron B42 in this championship , but was largely unsuccessful. At the Rivet Supply Trophy in May 1979 in Thruxton , he retired in the third round after an engine failure. The race in ZandvoortHe finished 12th and thus outside of the points. More failures and poor placements followed.

In 1981 he drove one more race in the Formula 2 European Championship for Bertram Schäfer Racing , then he concentrated entirely on his career as a sports car racing driver.

Career in sports car racing

In contrast to the lack of success in monopostor races, his career in sports car racing developed successfully. He contested his first sports car races in national club races in Belgium in the 1970s. In 1979 he started at the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race and made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1980 with tenth place overall .

After his engagement with Charles Pozzi , he signed a contract with Obermeier Racing in 1983 and achieved many results among the top ten in the sports car world championship for the German racing team until 1986 . In 1987 he switched to Courage Compétition and achieved third place overall in 1987, his best result at Le Mans.

Regout drove professionally until 1998 when he retired from racing. In 2010 he made a comeback in two races of the Grand Prix Masters and has been driving historic Group C races in a Porsche 962 since 2011 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1980	Charles Pozzi Racing	Ferrari 512BB	Pierre Dieudonné	Jean Xhenceval	Rank 10
1981	Charles Pozzi	Ferrari 512BB LM	Claude Ballot-Léna	Jean-Claude Andruet	5th place and class win
1985	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 956	Jesús Pareja-Mayo	Jürgen Lässig	Rank 8
1987	Primagaz Compétition	Cougar C20	Yves Courage	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Rank 3
1988	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Mazda 767	Takashi Yorino	Will Hoy	Rank 19
1989	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Mazda 767B	Takashi Yorino	Elliot Forbes-Robinson	Rank 9
1990	Courage Compétiton	Nissan R89C	Alain Cudini	Costa's lot	Rank 22
1993	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	Andy Petery	Nick Adams	failure	Engine failure
1994	Welter Racing	WR LM94	Jean-François Yvon	Jean-Paul Libert	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1989	Lion Rampant Racing	Chevrolet Camaro	Ferdinand de Lesseps	Luis Sereix	Chaunce Wallace	Rank 32

Web links

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