Jean-René de Fournoux
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 |
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2001 | Gérard Welter | WR LMP01 | Yōjirō Terada | Stéphane Daoudi | Rank 19 | |
2002 | Gérard Welter | WR LM2001 | Jean-Bernard Bouvet | Stéphane Daoudi | Rank 20 | |
2003 | Gérard Welter | WR LMP02 | Bastien Brière | Stéphane Daoudi | failure | Engine failure |
2004 | JMB Racing | Ferrari 360 Modena GTC | Jaime Melo | Stéphane Daoudi | failure | Power transmission |
2005 | JMB Racing | Ferrari 575 GTC | Jim Matthews | Stéphane Daoudi | failure | malfunction |
2006 | T2M Motorsports | Porsche 911 GT3 RS | Yutaka Yamagishi | Miro Konôpka | failure | malfunction |
2011 | Extreme limit at Paris | Norma M200P | Fabien Rosier | Philippe Haezebrouck | not classified |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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2002 | Welter Racing | WR LMP | Stéphane Daoudi | AJ Smith | failure | Engine failure |
Web links
- Official website of Defournoux évènementiel
- Jean-René de Fournoux at the Driver Database
- Jean-René de Fournoux at Racing Sports Cars
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fournoux, Jean-René de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |