Jean-Christophe Boullion

Jean-Christophe Boullion

Nation:	France
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1995 Monaco Grand Prix
Last start:	1995 Pacific Grand Prix
Constructors
1995  clean
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-16. ( 1995 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 11 - - -
World Cup points :	3
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Jean-Christophe Boullion (born December 27, 1969 in Saint-Brieuc ) is a former French racing driver . He was active in Formula 1 in 1995 .

Career

Jean-Christophe Boullion started karting in 1982. Six years later he switched to the French Formula Ford , which he left as champion in 1989. After two more years in French Formula 3 , he drove in 1993 alongside teammate Emmanuel Collard for Team Apomatox in the International Formula 3000 Championship . He finished the season eighth in the championship, while his performance increased over the year. So he finished the last two races behind Franck Lagorce on the winner's pot. Boullion stayed in Formula 3000 in 1994 , but switched to the DAMS championship team . With three victories in a row at the Hockenheimring , in Estoril and in Magny-Cours , he secured the driver's title and, together with Guillaume Gomez, the team title for DAMS. In 1994 he was also given the opportunity to take part in the Le Mans 24-hour race . Boullion drove his first race on the Sarthe with the two French riders Alain Cudini and Éric Hélary .

formula 1

He then received a contract with Sauber Motorsport in Formula 1 in 1995 . He drove a total of eleven Formula 1 races, his first being the Monaco Grand Prix and his last being the Pacific Grand Prix . He was able to achieve three World Championship points and thus finished 16th in the 1995 Formula 1 World Championship . In 1996 and 1997 Boullion worked as a test driver for the Williams-Renault racing team . Despite his engagements with Williams, Boullion entered Le Mans again in 1997 with DAMS. He was initially registered on two vehicles at DAMS. However, the vehicle with Wolfgang Kaufmann was disqualified during qualification and was therefore not eligible to start the race. So Boullion entered the race alongside Éric Bernard and Franck Lagorce, whom he already knew from his Formula 3000 days. However, Boullion also had to end his second Le Mans race prematurely after damage to the Panoz GTR-1 . In the following season, 1998, he was hired as a test driver for the British Formula 1 racing team Tyrrell . Also in this year is Boullion tried in Le Mans, failed with his Ferrari 333 SP but again technical defects. After this season he left Tyrrell and turned to other motorsport series. In 2006, Boullion commented on the situation:

«The problem of the formula 1, c'est qu'il faut être au bon endroit au bon moment. L'opportunité ne s'est jamais ouverte en ce quie me concerne et il valait donc mieux la quitter, le plus tôt possible même, pour se reconvertir ailleurs. »

“The problem with Formula 1 is you have to be in the right place at the right time. That was never the case with me, so it was better to get out of there as soon as possible and look for other options. "

Touring and sports cars

Boullion signed a contract with Williams-Renault for the 1999 season and now drove a Renault Laguna in the British Touring Car Championship , but ended the season in tenth place overall behind his teammate Jason Plato . He was not allowed to start at Le Mans this year, although he was registered with DAMS as well as with his previous team Jabouille-Bouresche, he ultimately did not drive for either team. His involvement in the touring car championship came to an end with the departure of Renault and Williams. In 2000 Boullion was given the opportunity to contest his third 24-hour race with Jérôme Policand , with whom he had already raced at Le Mans in 1997, and Jordi Gené . Despite the failure of the Le Mans prototype , Boullion drove another endurance race with Jordi Gené, the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring . The race, which was part of the American Le Mans Series , ended in ninth place.

Jean-Christoph Boullion crossing the finish line in Spa 2005

In 2001 he moved to the young racing team Pescarolo Sport and competed in several sports car races on a Courage C60 under the leadership of the former French racing driver Henri Pescarolo . He drove in a total of three championships. In addition to the 12-hour race at Sebring , which was part of the American Le Mans Series, Pescarolo put the focus on the FIA ​​Sportscar Championship and the European Le Mans Series . Together with Laurent Redon and Sébastien Bourdais , he drove the majority of the championship races, in which he was able to win a race in the ELMS and the FIA ​​Sportscar Championship. Boullion was also registered with both teammates at Le Mans and finished the race in 13th place with his first finish. Boullion reflected on the possibility with Henri Pescarolo in 2006:

«Mais je trouve que l'aventure humaine - car ç'en était vraiment une - était très excitante à vivre lui. J'avais tout à apprendre à son contact. »

“I found the human aspect of the adventure - and it really was - very exciting with him. I had so much to learn from him. "

In 2002 he stayed with Pescarolo Sport, which after the departure of ELMS, now fully concentrated on the FIA ​​championship. During the season he drove with either Sébastien Bourdais or Franck Lagorce. He finished two of the six races as the winner, but was beaten by Jan Lammers and Val Hillebrand . In 2003 Boullion was supposed to achieve his best result in the race by then with an eighth place in Le Mans, on the other hand, with only two participations in the FIA ​​Sportscar Championship, the opportunity to win the title remained withheld. First he won with Stéphane Sarrazin at Autódromo do Estoril , but he and Lagorce dropped out at the next race. Then, until the end of the year, the driver pairing at Pescarolo rotated between several pilots with whom he also drove over the years. With the decline of the FIA ​​championship, Boullion completely missed a year, and an intended start at Epsilon Sport in Le Mans did not materialize because the team withdrew its nomination.

Boullion at Le Mans 2008

Boullion in the Pescarolo 01 at the Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race in 2009

For the 2005 season, Boullion drove a Pescarolo C60. He and his former DAMS team-mate Emmanuel Collard now drove in the newly founded Le Mans Endurance Series . In addition, the driver pairing was supported by Érik Comas in the 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps and the non-championship 24-hour race of Le Mans . Boullion finished the two races with Comas and Collard in second place, and the smaller team also won the 1000 km race in Monza and the run in Istanbul. This secured him and Collard the driver's championship and team owner Henri Pescarolo the 2005 team championship. For the 2006 season , the team received the improved Pescarolo 01, a further developed prototype of the previous year's vehicle. He and Collard won all five races of the championship. In the races, partly reinforced by Didier André and Eric Hélary, the driver pairing defended the team and driver championship of the series. With the entry of Peugeot the following year , the situation changed dramatically. None of the established teams could keep up with the presented speed of the works team, only Boullion supported by Collard, Romain Dumas or Harold Primat kept the championship open until the last race in Brazil thanks to their reliability . Boullion finished four of the six races on the podium, both further races in the top five. Nevertheless, he lost the championship in the end with 4.5 points to Pedro Lamy and his former teammate Stéphane Sarrazin. In the 2008 season , Joest Racing was now also registered for the championship as an Audi works team. He and Boullion were only able to achieve a podium finish in the 1000 km race at Silverstone, which meant sixth place overall in the championship. In the following year Peugeot only drove at the 1000 km Spa, Audi was only represented in the championship with two older Audi R10s , which were also entered by a private team. Boullion, now alongside Christophe Tinseau, was able to win the race on the new course in Algarve and finish two more of the five races on the podium. Nevertheless, Boullion and Tinseau were beaten in the championship by the German-Czech driver trio Stefan Mücke , Jan Charouz and Tomáš Enge .

Pescarolo Sport got increasingly into financial difficulties over the course of the season and had to sell parts of the company in spring 2010. Boullion therefore switched to the young Rebellion Racing team , which had previously competed in the Le Mans Series under the banner of Speedy Racing - Team Sebah .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1995	Red Bull Sauber Ford	Clean C14	Ford Zetec-R 3.0 V8	11	-	-	-	-	-	3	16.
total				11	-	-	-	-	-	3

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1995
					8th*	DNF	DNF	9	5	10	11	6th	12	DNF	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1994	Michel Hommell	Bugatti EB110	Alain Cudini	Eric Helary	failure	accident
1997	Société DAMS	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Eric Bernard	Franck Lagorce	failure	Oil leak
1998	Jabouille-Bouresche	Ferrari 333SP	Vincenzo Sospiri	Jérôme Policand	failure	transmission
2000	ROC	Reynard 2KQ	Jordi Gené	Jérôme Policand	failure	engine
2001	Pescarolo sport	Courage C60	Sébastien Bourdais	Laurent Redon	Rank 13
2002	Pescarolo sport	Courage C60	Sébastien Bourdais	Franck Lagorce	Rank 10
2003	Pescarolo sport	Courage C60	Stéphane Sarrazin	Franck Lagorce	Rank 8
2005	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo C60	Emmanuel Collard	Érik Comas	Rank 2
2007	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo 01	Emmanuel Collard	Romain Dumas	Rank 3
2008	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo 01	Emmanuel Collard	Romain Dumas	failure	engine
2009	Pescarolo sport	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Benoît Tréluyer	Simon Pagenaud	failure	accident
2010	Rebellion Racing	Lola B10 / 60	Andrea Belicchi	Guy Smith	failure	accident
2011	Rebellion Racing	Lola B10 / 60	Andrea Belicchi	Guy Smith	failure	accident
2012	Pescarolo team	Pescarolo 03	Emmanuel Collard	Stuart Hall	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Pescarolo sport	Courage C60	Sébastien Bourdais	Laurent Redon	failure	Engine failure
2012	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo 01	Emmanuel Collard	Julien Jousse	Rank 6

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
2012	Pescarolo team	Pescarolo 01 Pescarolo 03	SEB	SPA	LEM	SIL	SAO	BAH	FUJ	SHA
			6th		DNF

Web links

Commons : Jean-Christophe Boullion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jean-Christophe Boullion at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 2006 Le Mans Series Yearbook. 2006, p. 168
2. ↑ OAK Racing takes over Pescarolo Sport