Jean-Luc Blanchemain

Jean-Luc Blanchemain (born March 22, 1957 in Negraville ) is a French racing driver .

Career

Jean-Luc Blanechmain came to motorsport relatively late. He was already over 40 when he started racing in the French GT Championship in the early 2000s . In 2003 he celebrated three race wins on a Chrysler Viper GTS-R and finished second overall in the championship at the end of the year. In 2004 the entry into sports car racing followed . In the American Le Mans Series he became a works driver at Panoz and made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the US team's GT car . At the same time, he continued to contest races in the GT championship in his home country and finished fourth in the final standings in 2004 and 2005.

His best place at Le Mans was 21st overall in 2008, driven by a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R owned by former French skier Luc Alphand .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz Elan GTR1	Patrick Bourdais	Roland Bervillé	failure	Clutch damage
2005	T2M Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 RS	Yutaka Yamagishi	Xavier Pompidou	failure	accident
2006	Larbre Compétition	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Patrick Bornhauser	Gabriele Gardel	failure	Clutch damage
2007	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Didier André	Vincent Vosse	Rank 24
2008	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Patrice Goueslard	Laurent Pasquali	Rank 21

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Larbre Compétition	Panoz GTP	Christophe Bouchut	Roland Bervillé	Rank 9

Web links

• Jean-Luc Blanchemain At Racing Sports Cars