Jean-Marie Alméras

The Porsche 911 Carrera RS (right) of Jean-Marie Alméras, Jacques Laffite and Jacques Alméras under the Dunlop arch at the 1994 Le Mans 24 Hours

Jean-Marie Alméras (born September 13, 1943 in Montpellier ) is a French racing car driver and racing team owner and the uncle of Philippe Alméras .

Career

Jean-Marie Alméras is the older of the two Alméras brothers and was born six years before his brother Jacques . Together with his brother, he ran a racing team in the 1980s and 1990s, where he was also active as a driver.

With his brother Jacques and his compatriot Marianne Hoepfner as partners, he made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1980 . This first appearance ended prematurely after an accident with the Porsche 934 . He competed eight times in his career at Le Mans, with 15th overall position in 1983 as the best overall placement.

In 1978, 1979 and 1980 he won the overall ranking of the racing car class of the European Hill Climb Championship and in 1978 also the French Hill Climb Championship. Even at the age of over 70, Jean-Marie Alméras still competes in hill climbs in his historic Porsche 935 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1980	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 934	Jacques Alméras	Marianne Hoepfner	failure	accident
1981	Eminence Racing Team	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Jacques Alméras		failure	Leak in the fuel tank
1983	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 930	Jacques Alméras	Jacques Guillot	Rank 15
1984	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 930	Jacques Alméras	Tom Winters	Rank 18
1989	Alméras Frères team	Porsche 962C	Jacques Alméras	Alain Iannetta	failure	accident
1991	Alméras Frères	Porsche 962C	Jacques Alméras	Pierre de Thoisy	failure	accident
1992	Alméras Chotard team	Porsche 962C	Jacques Alméras	Max Cohen-Olivar	failure	accident
1994	Porsche Flymo Mobil Alméras	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Jacques Alméras	Jacques Laffite	failure	accident

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
1980	Alméras Frères	Porsche 934	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
											DNF
1981	Eminence Racing	Porsche 924	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
										DNF
1983	Alméras Frères	Porsche 930	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	FUJ	KYA
			13	DNF		15th
1984	Alméras Frères	Porsche 930	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	BRH	MOS	SPA	IMO	FUJ	KYA	SAN
					18th
1989	Porsche Alméras	Porsche 962	SUZ	DIJ	JAR	BRH	ONLY	DON	SPA	MEX
				19th	12	10	14th		21st	15th
1990	Alméras Frères	Porsche 962	SUZ	MON	SIL	SPA	DIJ	ONLY	DON	MOT	MEX
						22nd	23	19th		18th	DNF
1991	Alméras Frères	Porsche 962	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
						DNF
1992	Alméras team	Porsche 962	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					DNF

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-Marie Alméras  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jean-Marie Alméras at Racing Sports Cars