Jacques Alméras

The Porsche 911 Carrera RS (right) of Jean-Marie Alméras , Jacques Laffite and Jacques Alméras under the Dunlop arch at the 1994 Le Mans 24 Hours

Jacques Alméras (born January 30, 1949 in Montpellier ) is a former French racing driver and racing team owner and the father of Philippe Alméras .

Career

Jacques Alméras competed in touring and sports car races in the 1979s, 1980s and 1990s . The Frenchman also competed in endurance races for two decades. With his brother Jean-Marie - who was almost always one of his team partners - he also ran a racing team that only used Porsche sports cars .

In 1980 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche 934 . The race ended prematurely after an accident on the 251st lap. His best placement on the Sarthe was 15th overall in 1983, which he achieved together with his brother and Jacques Guillot in a Porsche 930 . Alméras' last time as a driver was at Le Mans in 1994. Like his debut race, his last race there ended prematurely after an accident.

In 1973 he was overall runner-up in the Tour de France for automobiles and in 1978, 1979 and 1980 he won the overall standings in the production car class of the European Hill Climb Championship .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1980	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 934	Jean-Marie Alméras	Marianne Hoepfner	failure	accident
1981	Eminence Racing Team	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Jean-Marie Alméras		failure	Leak in the fuel tank
1983	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 930	Jean-Marie Alméras	Jacques Guillot	Rank 15
1984	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 930	Jean-Marie Alméras	Tom Winters	Rank 18
1989	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 962C	Jean-Marie Alméras	Alain Iannetta	failure	accident
1991	Alméras Frères	Porsche 962C	Jean-Marie Alméras	Pierre de Thoisy	failure	accident
1992	Alméras Chotard team	Porsche 962C	Jean-Marie Alméras	Max Cohen-Olivar	failure	accident
1994	Porsche Flymo Mobil Alméras	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Jean-Marie Alméras	Jacques Laffite	failure	accident

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	16
1980	Alméras Frères	Porsche 934	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
											DNF
1981	Eminence Racing	Porsche 924	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
										DNF
1983	Alméras Frères	Porsche 930	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	FUJ	KYA
						15th
1984	Alméras Frères	Porsche 930	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	BRH	MOS	SPA	IMO	FUJ	KYA	SAN
					18th
1989	Porsche Alméras	Porsche 962	SUZ	DIJ	JAR	BRH	ONLY	DON	SPA	MEX
				19th	12	10	14th		21st	15th
1990	Alméras Frères	Porsche 962	SUZ	MON	SIL	SPA	DIJ	ONLY	DON	MOT	MEX
						22nd	23	19th		18th	DNF
1991	Alméras Frères	Porsche 962	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
						DNF
1992	Alméras team	Porsche 962	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 24 hours of mans . 1923-1992. 2 volumes. Édition d'Art JB Barthelemy, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jacques Alméras  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jacques Alméras at Racing Sports Cars