Jean-François Yvon

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

Jean-François Yvon (born November 24, 1958 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French racing driver .

Career

Jean-François Yvon is one of the little-known racing drivers who have been active in motorsport for more than 20 years. Between 1984 and 2011 he competed 13 times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . His career began in 1979 in Formula 3 and, after a lack of involvement in monoposto racing, led to sports car racing in the early 1980s. After many years in motorsport, fourth place overall at the Petit Le Mans 2011 was his best place in an international sports car race. In Road Atlanta he was partner of Alexandre Prémat and Olivier Pla and drove a Pescarolo 01 . The winners Franck Montagny , Stéphane Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz in the Peugeot 908 were missing 10 laps after 9½ hours of driving; to third place, which was achieved by Adrián Fernández , Harold Primat and Stefan Mücke in the Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 , four laps.

Yvon was a team member of the Compétition of Yves Courage and in recent years, regular driver of OAK Racing team of his friend Jacques Nicolet .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1984	Helmut Gall	BMW M1	Philippe Dagoreau	Pierre de Thoisy	14th place and class win
1985	Primagaz	Cougar C12	Alain de Cadenet	Yves Courage	Rank 20
1986	Gebhardt Motorsport	Gebhardt JC853	Stanley Dickens	Pierre de Thoisy	failure	accident
1987	Roland Bassaler	Clean SHS C6	Yves Hervalet	Hervé Bourjade	failure	Clutch damage
1988	Roland Bassaler	Clean SHS C6	Roland Bassaler	Rémy Pochauvin	failure	Engine failure
1992	Courage Compétition	Cougar C28LM	Tomás Saldaña	Denis Morin	failure	Engine failure
1993	Courage Compétition	Courage C30	Jean-Louis Ricci	Pierre Yver	Rank 11
1994	Welter Racing	WR LM94	Hervé Regout	Jean-Paul Libert	failure	Engine failure
2000	Didier Bonnet	Debora LMP200	Patrick Lemarié	Yann Goudy	failure	Oil leak
2009	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Jacques Nicolet	Richard Hein	Rank 20
2010	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Jacques Nicolet	Richard Hein	Rank 9
2010	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Jacques Nicolet	Richard Hein	Rank 9
2011	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Jacques Nicolet	Richard Hein	failure	malfunction

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2011	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Richard Hein	Jacques Nicolet	failure	Engine failure

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jean-François Yvon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jean-François Yvon on the OAK Racing website
• Jean-François Yvon at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petit Le Mans 2011