Jean-Marie Jacquemin

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Jean-Marie Jacquemin won his first rally in 1967 on a Renault 8 Gordini

Jean-Marie Jacquemin (born August 6, 1942 ) is a Belgian entrepreneur and former rally and circuit racing driver .

Racing career

Jean-Marie Jacquemin has been active in rallying for almost four decades since 1966. In addition, he repeatedly competed in selected circuit races. He celebrated his first overall success in a rally in a Renault 8 Gordini at the 12-hour race in Huy in 1967 . He drove for many years in the Belgian rally championship , the overall ranking of which he won in 1968. He started in the European rally championship and was thirteenth in a Chrysler Sunbeam in the Tour de Corse in 1978 (winners Bernard Darniche and Alain Mahé in a Fiat 131 Mirafiori Abarth ).

On the racetrack, his greatest success was second place behind Herbert Müller in the one-hour race in Nivelles in 1972 , a race of the European GT championship of that year. Both drove a De Tomaso Pantera . In 1971 he was fifth overall in the Tour de France for automobiles . He competed twice in the Le Mans 24-hour race . After a failure in 1971 he finished the race in 1972 on the side of Yves Deprez in the De Tomaso Pantera in 16th place overall.

Entrepreneur

In 1981 Jean-Marie Jacquemin founded the vehicle tuning company Jacquemin Tuning in the French municipality of Sainghin-en-Mélantois . In 2016, the company hit the headlines after an employee embezzled 1,500,000 euros between 2006 and 2016. In 2018 the man was sentenced to repayment of the sum and sentenced to several years in prison.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1971 FranceFrance Jean Égreteaud Porsche 911S FranceFrance Jean Égreteaud failure Engine failure
1972 BelgiumBelgium Claude Dubois De Tomaso Pantera BelgiumBelgium Yves Deprez Rank 16

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11
1970 Jean-Marie Jacquemin Alpine A110 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL
19th 24
1971 Jean Égreteaud Porsche 911 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
DNF
1972 Claude Dubois De Tomaso Pantera ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
7th 16

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 Jacquemin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 12 hours by Huy 1967
  2. ^ Tour de Corse 1978
  3. ↑ 1-hour race at Nivelles in 1972
  4. ↑ About the misappropriation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / lavdn.lavoixdunord.fr  
personal data
SURNAME Jacquemin, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian entrepreneur and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1942