Jean-Luc Thérier

Jean-Luc Thérier in the Alpine A110 at the San Remo Rally 1973

Jean-Luc Thérier (born October 7, 1945 in Hodeng-au-Bosc ; † July 31, 2019 ) was a French rally and circuit racing driver .

Career

If a driver's world championship had already been held in the 1973 World Rally Championship , the title would have gone to Jean-Luc Thérier. The French Alpine works driver won the World Championship races in Portugal and Greece , as well as the San Remo rally , on an Alpine A110 . Thérier was the driver with the most points that year, but only the brand title was awarded in 1973.

In his long career, Thérier was able to win two more World Cup races. In 1974 he won the Press-on-Regardless in the USA on a Renault 17 Gordini and in 1980 he won the Tour de Corse on a Porsche 911SC .

He also competed four times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . The best placement was tenth overall in 1968.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1967	North American Racing Team	Alpine M64	Francois Chevalier		failure	Engine failure
1968	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A210	Bernard Tramont		Rank 10 and class win
1969	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A220	Jean-Pierre Nicolas		failure	malfunction
1977	Bernard Decure	Alpine A310	Bernard Decure	Jacky Cauchy	failure	Engine failure

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
1967	NART	Alpine M64	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
									DNF
1968	Alpine	Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												10
1969	Alpine	Alpine A220	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										DNF
1980	Team Willeme	Ford Capri	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
														11

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 24 hours of mans . 1923-1992. 2 volumes. Édition d'Art JB Barthelemy, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

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

• Jean-Luc Thérier at Racing Sports Cars