Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière

The Venturi 600LM, the Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière 1994 at the 24-hour race at Le Mans piloted

Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière (born February 22, 1943 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a former French racing driver and entrepreneur.

Family and entrepreneurs

Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière is one of six children of Michel Maury-Laribière , the first vice-president of the French employers' association Mouvement des Entreprises de France . His father was also Chief Executive Officer of the roof tile manufacturer TBF , today Terreal , for many years . In the 1980s and 1990s he was the managing director of TBF himself .

Today the father of three is the owner of a company for language courses and language trips . The Angoulême- based company has 50 permanent employees and organizes trips to Europe, North America and China .

The kidnapping of his father

Michel Maury-Laribière was met by the adventurer and criminal Jacques Hyver , who disguised himself as a policeman and forced the Citroën CX driven by Maury-Laribière to stop on Saturday morning of June 28, 1980 on his way to the brick factory between the towns of Confolens and Roumazières-Loubert , kidnapped. Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière was waiting for his father in the company's office. After he did not appear there, he went looking and found the abandoned Citroën on a small side street. In the passenger seat he found a ransom note for 3 million French francs .

Michel Maury-Laribière was in the hands of the kidnapper for eleven days. The company's employees supported the family in raising the ransom, and more than 600 police officers searched for the kidnapper. After a failed transfer of the money, Dominique Werner, the kidnapper's 19-year-old lover, led the investigators to the hiding place and he was freed.

Hyver managed to escape and four months later he shot and killed Christian Maury, the nightclub owner, in another attempt to kidnap the family. He was caught shortly afterwards and sentenced to 32 prison terms. He was released in 2005 after several attempts to escape. Michel Maury-Laribière died in 1990. The kidnapping was filmed in 2012 for French television under the title Jacques Hyver, l'aventurier et le PDG .

Career in motorsport

Apart from his entrepreneurial activities, he competed in GT and sports car races as an amateur racing driver for many years. He made his first racing appearance at the Le Mans 24-hour race . The last time he started a sports car race was in 2005, when he drove a race in the Spanish GT Championship in Jerez . In between, he competed eight times at Le Mans, including his debut in 1993, where he won the LMP675 class in 2003 .

His best finish at a motorsport event was fifth overall in Paul Ricard's 4-hour race in 1995 , a race in the BPR Global GT Series that year .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1993	BBA Compétition	Venturi 500LM	Michel Krine	Patrick Camus	Rank 29
1994	BBA Compétition	Venturi 600LM	Bernard Chauvin	Hervé Poulain	not classified
1995	BBA Compétition	McLaren F1 GTR	Marc Sourd	Hervé Poulain	Rank 13
1998	Eleven Haberthur Racing	Porsche 911 GT2	Eric Graham	Hervé Poulain	Rank 20
2000	Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière	Porsche 911 GT3-R	Bernard Chauvin	Angelo Zadra	failure	accident
2001	Noël del Bello Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Sylvain Noël	Georges Forgeois	not classified
2003	Noël del Bello Racing	Reynard 2KQ-LM	Christophe Pillon	Didier André	15th place and class win
2004	Noël del Bello Racing	Reynard 2KQ	Sylvain Boulay	Bruno Besson	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the language school
• Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière at the Driver Database
• Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Maury Laribières Language School (French)
2. ↑ Information on Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière (French)
3. ↑ The kidnapping of Michel Maury-Laribière (French)
4. ↑ The kidnapping at France 2 ( Memento des original from May 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Race for the 2005 Spanish GT Championship
6. ↑ Paul Ricard's 4-hour race in 1995