Jean-René de Fournoux

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The WR LMP02 of Bastien Brière , Jean-René de Fournoux and Stéphane Daoudi at the 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours

Jean-René de Fournoux (born March 24, 1978 in Marseille ) is a French entrepreneur and former racing driver .

Racing career

Jean-René de Fournoux's career began in karting in the 1980s . In 1996 he switched to the Formula Renault Campus Championship , which he finished second overall in 1997. In 1998 he switched to Formula Renault . In the French championship, his best place in the annual ranking was eighth in 1999.

In 2001 he switched to GT and sports car racing and made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that year . At the end of the race, he finished second in the LMP675 class twice in a row, in 2001 with Yōjirō Terada and Stéphane Daoudi in WR LMP01 (class winners Jordi Gené / Jean-Denis Delétraz / Pascal Fabre in a Reynard 2KQ-LM ), in 2002 with Jean-Bernard Bouvet and Daoudi in the WR LM2001 (class winners Jean-Denis Delétraz / Christophe Pillon / Walter Lechner junior also on a Reynard 2KQ-LM). In the next five missions he failed each time.

At the end of 2006 he ended his professional career. In 2011 he returned to racing for a few years and raced in the V de V Challenge Endurance Series until the end of 2015 .

Entrepreneur

Jean-René de Fournoux runs a company under the name DEFOURNOUX évènementiel that rents and sells racing vehicles for French Cup championships.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2001 FranceFrance Gérard Welter WR LMP01 JapanJapan Yōjirō Terada FranceFrance Stéphane Daoudi Rank 19
2002 FranceFrance Gérard Welter WR LM2001 FranceFrance Jean-Bernard Bouvet FranceFrance Stéphane Daoudi Rank 20
2003 FranceFrance Gérard Welter WR LMP02 FranceFrance Bastien Brière FranceFrance Stéphane Daoudi failure Engine failure
2004 FranceFrance JMB Racing Ferrari 360 Modena GTC BrazilBrazil Jaime Melo FranceFrance Stéphane Daoudi failure Power transmission
2005 FranceFrance JMB Racing Ferrari 575 GTC United StatesUnited States Jim Matthews FranceFrance Stéphane Daoudi failure malfunction
2006 JapanJapan T2M Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 RS JapanJapan Yutaka Yamagishi SlovakiaSlovakia Miro Konôpka failure malfunction
2011 FranceFrance Extreme limit at Paris Norma M200P FranceFrance Fabien Rosier FranceFrance Philippe Haezebrouck not classified

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2002 FranceFrance Welter Racing WR LMP FranceFrance Stéphane Daoudi United StatesUnited States AJ Smith failure Engine failure

Web links

Commons : Jean-René de Fournoux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Formula Renault Campus Championship 1997
  2. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1999
personal data
SURNAME Fournoux, Jean-René de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille