Jean-Pierre Nicolas

Jean-Pierre Nicolas 2014

Jean-Pierre Nicolas (born January 22, 1945 in Marseille ) is a former French rally driver and team boss of the Peugeot rally team.

Career

Jean-Pierre Nicolas was a works driver for Alpine and Peugeot in the World Rally Championship in the 1970s . The Frenchman won five world championship races. In 1973 he won the Tour de Corse on an Alpine A110 and three years later the Morocco Rally on a Peugeot 504 . His greatest successes were victories at the Monte Carlo Rally in 1978 and the East African Safari Rally in the same year. He also won the Ivory Coast Rally in his most successful year in his career . In 1974 he and Gérard Larrousse won the overall ranking of the Tour de France for automobiles .

After the end of his active career, Nicolas became team manager for the Peugeot factory team. He led Marcus Grönholm to two world championship titles in 2000 and 2002 .

Today Nicolas is the manager of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	Société Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A210	Jean-Claude Andruet	Rank 12 and class win
1969	Société Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A210	Jean-Luc Thérier	failure	malfunction

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
1966	Jean-Loup Pellecuer	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
						31
1968	Alpine	Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												14th
1969	Alpine	Alpine A210	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										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-Pierre Nicolas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jean-Pierre Nicolas at Racing Sports Cars