Jean-Louis Marnat

Jean-Louis Marnat ( August 7, 1935 - July 15, 1985 ) was a French racing driver .

Career

Jean-Louis Marnat operation in the 1960s in Paris a shop for Mini - accessories and drove in his spare time with a Mini Cooper S hillclimb . In 1964 he made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race with a works Triumph Spitfire . Marnat was Jean-François Piot's team-mate , but dropped out early after an accident. In the same year he drove the Tour de France for automobiles and was 22nd for Triumph in the 1000 km race in Paris . Piot was his teammate again.

In 1966 he was an important partner in the Marcos Mini GT project and finished 15th in the race with Claude Ballot-Léna . In 1967 he became a works driver at Renault Alpine and contested his last Le Mans race with the Alpine A210 in 1968 , but retired.

After his racing career ended in 1971, Marnat opened another shop for mini accessories in Paris and died in a car accident in July 1985.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1964	Standard triumph	Triumph Spitfire	Jean-François Piot	failure	accident
1966	Jean-Louis Marnat et Cie	Marcos Mini GT 2 + 2	Claude Ballot-Léna	Rank 15
1968	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A210	Jean-François Gerbault	failure	Ignition damage

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	17th	18th	19th	20th
1964	Triumph AGACI	Triumph Spitfire Mini-Cooper	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
											DNF								DNF			22nd
1966	Jean-Louis Marnat	Marco's Mini	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
					DNF				15th
1968	Alpine	Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												DNF

Web links

• Jean-Louis Marnat at Racing Sports Cars