Jean-Pierre Rouget

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Before the start of the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1971 . Front of the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray owned by Jean-Claude Aubriet and Jean-Pierre Rouget. Behind the Porsche 908/02 from André Wicky and Max Cohen-Olivar
In a Porsche 910 , Jean-Pierre Rouget achieved his best position in a sports car race with second place in the 1973 Le Mans 4-hour race

Jean-Pierre Rouget (born February 22, 1941 ) is a former French rally and circuit racing driver .

Racing career

Rallying

Jean-Pierre Rouget was a versatile racing driver. He drove monoposto , GT and sports car races and was active in rallying. Between 1966 and 1991 he was entered in 77 rallies, including 16 events of the World Rally Championship . The career began with the Rallye Monte Carlo in 1966 , at that time a race of the European Rally Championship . At this rally event, which Pauli Toivonen won with co-driver Ensio Mikkander in the Citroën DS21 , Rouget (co-driver Jean-Claude Depret ) retired in the Ford Cortina . His first place was third overall at the Rallye du Mont-Blanc 1970 , with co-driver Willy Huret in the Alpine A110 1600 .

His first overall victories came in 1975. The Lucien Bianchi Criterium took place around the Walloon community of Couvin , named after Belgian racing driver Lucien Bianchi who died in 1968 on the Circuit des 24 Heures . Rouget won in a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 . He achieved his second success of the season at the Rallye International de Picardie in 1975 .

Jean-Pierre Rouget was involved in rallying until the end of the 1988 racing season, when he retired at the Monte Carlo Rally in a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth with a damaged turbocharger . At the Monte Carlo Rally , he also achieved his best placement in a world championship run. At a Talbot Samba rally , he and co-driver Françoise Lelièvre finished fifteenth overall in 1984 .

Circuit racing

The circuit career began with a 14th place in the Trophée d'Auvergne in 1967 . He started several times in the Tour de France for automobiles and the Le Mans 24-hour race . His best place in a sports car race was second overall with Raymond Touroul in a Porsche 910 in the 1973 Le Mans 4-hour race (winners Gijs van Lennep and Herbert Müller in the Porsche Carrera RSR).

After he had driven a race for the French Formula 3 Championship in 1980 , he ended his motorsport career in 1991 with a guest start in the French Formula Renault Championship .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1970 FranceFrance Greder Racing Chevrolet Corvette C3 FranceFrance Henri Greder not classified
1971 FranceFrance Écurie Léopard Chevrolet Corvette Stingray FranceFrance Jean-Claude Aubriet failure Power transmission
1972 FranceFrance Shark team Ford Capri 2600 RS FranceFrance Jean-Claude Guérie failure no oil pressure
1973 FranceFrance Raymond Touroul Porsche 910 FranceFrance Raymond Touroul failure Gasoline system

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jean-Pierre Rouget  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monte Carlo Rally 1966
  2. ^ Rallye du Mont-Blanc 1970
  3. ^ Criterium Lucien Bianchi 1975
  4. ^ Rallye International de Picardie 1975
  5. ↑ Monte Carlo Rally 1984
  6. ^ 4 Hours of Le Mans 1973
personal data
SURNAME Rouget, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1941